New School = Updates

It's a new school year and you know what that means.  Paperwork.  Lots and lots of paperwork.  I filled out and/or signed twenty pages from Patty's kindergarten packet!  It's good to brush up on your "following directions" skills, right?  I like to see how many I can fill out correctly before my eyes go cross or glaze over!

First Day Update

OMG!  To say Patty had a rough first day would be an understatement.  The poor kid cried so much that her eyes are bright pink underneath!  When I first laid eyes on her at pickup, I actually thought she'd been hit in the face.  Totally wasn't prepared for the sight.

It's the First Day of School...are you ready?

Can you believe it's the first day of school?  I just don't know where those days of summer went!  I don't remember summers going by so quickly when I was a kid.  Were summers longer back then?  They couldn't have been that much longer, guess it's just because I'm older and can read a calendar now.

Oh, that Joan Rivers!

So, Patty and I listened to 98.7 on the way to school this morning and it just happened to be news time.  If you know me at all, you should be proud that I was listening to the news at all!  And, no, the juice on 96 sto doesn't count as real news.

Push Pins are Sharp People!

I am borrowing this picture from a teaching blog called Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives because I am writing this post on my net book since my laptop over heated and shut me down.  FYI:  I am planning to take off that borrowed image and replace it later.

I've been seeing this push pin activity for months on teaching blogs and Pinterest.  Can't remember what I was doing the other day, but I had an unsettling question come to mind.  Isn't putting sharp push pins in the hands of children a hazard?  I mean, are the teachers cleaning those pins with alcohol or something in the event that a kid pricks him/herself? 


Just something to think about!

I'm Probably Stepping In It With This Post...

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I "heart" Chick Fila AND Equality

Do you ever feel like we live in a nation that just has to discriminate against somebody?  We had wonderful elected officials and fabulously polarizing community leaders who got our nation past the discrimination of the civil rights era.  Think Elton and Brad will be the face of the new inequality?