Mommathon

This is a really well-written book that tells a very difficult story. It is fiction, but as I was reading it I saw so much of a former student of mine in the main character it was scary. The boy in this book has horrendous things happen to him. I had a student once who, sadly, lived through a very similar situation. The emotions, personality and anger this boy exhibited were almost identical to some of the things I witnessed my former student going through. It was scary. I never really knew exactly what happened to my student, but I knew it was bad and that he and his siblings weren't allowed to live at home anymore. I wish I would have had this book to read then. I think it would have helped me to understand him and what he was going through a little bit more.

We got to feed some stingrays, too.






This toy Liam got at the giftshop is going down in the record books as one of the world's most ANNOYING toys.

1. LOTS of dead turtles and armadillos on the side of the road.
2. We saw someone get bucked off a horse.
3. A deer processing plant
4. The amazon.com Kansas processing warehouse-it was HUGE. (Now we know where our books are coming from.)
5. A Planned Parenthood with a drive thru...not sure what you do in a Planned Parenthood drive thru.
6. A sign that said something about selling semen...it was for cows.

Congratulations to the two newest doctors in the family! We are all so proud of both of you!

I have complained since we started violin about how UNpunctual Liam's teacher is. I mean REALLY unpunctual...it's like she has no sense of time. If your lesson is supposed to start at 1:30, you will be lucky to start by 2:15-that's on a good day. And she never apologizes or even acknowledges that she is late...EVER!!! That's not including travel time there and back. So basically, about a quarter of your day gets sucked up by violin lessons. That has been okay and I have managed to tolerate it for the past two+ years because she is so good with Liam. And remember, only Liam plays right now. Colm is going to start soon...can you imagine how much time is going to be wasted just WAITING for our lessons to start???? So, tomorrow I am going to go observe another teacher. I interviewed her over the phone and she sounds good. I couldn't come up with a polite way to ask her if she is punctual though. I guess we'll see if she in on schedule when I go to observe the lesson tomorrow. Another reason why we are thinking about switching is because of kindergarten. Liam won't even get out of kinder until 3:45. Group lessons begin (or atleast they are supposed to begin) at 3:30ish. By the time I wait in the carpool line and drive all the way to his lesson, they will have missed half, if not all of the group lesson. Not to mention that I am going to be in a mad rush to get them from point A to point B every Monday...I don't want that. Another bonus is she costs about half us much. Money talks, folks.