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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Off Track!
My kids are at the end of another Trimester and because they are on track B, that means that they are also going off track for a month. Woo-hoo! A whole month with no homework. The last two days Donald has been completely swamped making sure everything is done before break (which means that I am completely swamped as well). He has had six projects over the last two weeks plus his regular homework load. The last two nights he has been up until 11pm getting it all done. Coincidentally my classes also ended this past week, so as soon as I finish grading 30 final papers, my brain gets to rest from that as well. I am so excited to not have anything to worry about for a little while. Now I just need to find some kind of relaxing project to work on with the kids for the next month so that they don't go completely crazy from boredom. Cheers to a break from homework! :)
Monday, February 15, 2010
The Writer's Conference
What an amazing weekend I just had! I feel totally motivated and yet totally overwhelmed at the same time. I feel like I am developing so much, and that I am standing face to face with an enormous task that could quite possibly take over my life.
As a writer (I still am not sure I feel comfortable calling myself that) one thing that I learned is that I need to develop a platform. A platform is a following or a psuedo fan base so that editors know people will want to buy your book when it gets to that point.
Therefore, I have started another blog, The Birth of My Book, to record the details of this new journey that I am on. That is where I have written what I experienced this past weekend, so if you are interested...you will have to take a look to find out what happened. And while you are there make sure to sign up as one of my followers so I can build my fan base. I will try to post little bits of the book as I perfect my favorite scenes, just to get you all hooked so you can't wait to read the rest.
Thanks for all your support and well wishes, you make my heart full,
As a writer (I still am not sure I feel comfortable calling myself that) one thing that I learned is that I need to develop a platform. A platform is a following or a psuedo fan base so that editors know people will want to buy your book when it gets to that point.
Therefore, I have started another blog, The Birth of My Book, to record the details of this new journey that I am on. That is where I have written what I experienced this past weekend, so if you are interested...you will have to take a look to find out what happened. And while you are there make sure to sign up as one of my followers so I can build my fan base. I will try to post little bits of the book as I perfect my favorite scenes, just to get you all hooked so you can't wait to read the rest.
Thanks for all your support and well wishes, you make my heart full,
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Trade a bad day for a good day
Tuesday was definitely one of those days that you want to write about, just due to the fact that nothing went right and sometimes it is just surprising that one person could have that much bad luck all in one day. So I was going to write about it, but it seemed so negative to just unload a long list of crappy things that had happened. But since today was filled with good things, I think that I can now take the opportunity to not dump all the negative out, but rather compare the two days. If it bores you then just skip this post, but I like looking back at silly posts like this.
Tuesday-
This week was 'bring your family to school' week and they had little activities every day. Tuesday was eat breakfast with your parents. The paper said 'come eat donuts with your student', 'available 7:45-8:45am'. We got there at 8:20 (usually we get their earlier, but in order to eat with them I had to park down the street and walk in instead of just dropping off) and there were no donuts left. That was all for nothing. Then I worked on our taxes and this year is the first year that we have had to pay instead of getting a refund (just in state taxes- cause California sucks!), so that made me depressed. Time to pick up the kids. Savannah's (my niece, who gets dropped off at my house in the morning and picked up in the evening) teacher tells me that she got detention and that she has been lying at school. Eli's teacher tells me that he had an accident (What?!!! You are 6! Although I remember having an accident when I was in first grade, those bathrooms are nasty), lucky he had extra clothes in his backpack. So we head home, all bummed out and find the kitchen completely covered in ants. I left 1 dish there and they descended on it like a fog. So I had to completely scrub down the kitchen. I asked Donald to put away the clean dishes so that I could put the dirty dish in the dishwasher. He usually stacks the dishes on the sink and then puts them in the cupboard. But, since the sink was covered with ants, he stacked them all in one little antless spot and a glass got knocked over to brake on the floor. So then I had to clean up the ants and the broken glass all over the floor. Surprisingly though, I handled it all pretty well and didn't freak out. I just cleaned it up and hoped for a better day.
Today- Well I wouldn't really say that today had the same amount of good luck as I had of bad luck on Tuesday, but it was still a pretty good day. I exercised this morning and then got all my papers graded. Then I decided to walk over to pick up the kids to get more exercise. I have been working with Savannah and her teacher said that she has been much better the last couple days. Then when we got home Eli lost his second tooth, I always think that is so cute. And now we are getting ready to play a little lego rock band and then it is off to the store to buy Valentine's for the parties tomorrow. And while my kids are partying like the Valentine rock stars that they are, I will be at a writer's conference in San Diego getting my book read. Hopefully that will turn into an even better day.
Ok, I know that was a lame post, especially if you made it all the way to the end, but I think it might be fun for me to sometime later look back on my crappy day.
Tuesday-
This week was 'bring your family to school' week and they had little activities every day. Tuesday was eat breakfast with your parents. The paper said 'come eat donuts with your student', 'available 7:45-8:45am'. We got there at 8:20 (usually we get their earlier, but in order to eat with them I had to park down the street and walk in instead of just dropping off) and there were no donuts left. That was all for nothing. Then I worked on our taxes and this year is the first year that we have had to pay instead of getting a refund (just in state taxes- cause California sucks!), so that made me depressed. Time to pick up the kids. Savannah's (my niece, who gets dropped off at my house in the morning and picked up in the evening) teacher tells me that she got detention and that she has been lying at school. Eli's teacher tells me that he had an accident (What?!!! You are 6! Although I remember having an accident when I was in first grade, those bathrooms are nasty), lucky he had extra clothes in his backpack. So we head home, all bummed out and find the kitchen completely covered in ants. I left 1 dish there and they descended on it like a fog. So I had to completely scrub down the kitchen. I asked Donald to put away the clean dishes so that I could put the dirty dish in the dishwasher. He usually stacks the dishes on the sink and then puts them in the cupboard. But, since the sink was covered with ants, he stacked them all in one little antless spot and a glass got knocked over to brake on the floor. So then I had to clean up the ants and the broken glass all over the floor. Surprisingly though, I handled it all pretty well and didn't freak out. I just cleaned it up and hoped for a better day.
Today- Well I wouldn't really say that today had the same amount of good luck as I had of bad luck on Tuesday, but it was still a pretty good day. I exercised this morning and then got all my papers graded. Then I decided to walk over to pick up the kids to get more exercise. I have been working with Savannah and her teacher said that she has been much better the last couple days. Then when we got home Eli lost his second tooth, I always think that is so cute. And now we are getting ready to play a little lego rock band and then it is off to the store to buy Valentine's for the parties tomorrow. And while my kids are partying like the Valentine rock stars that they are, I will be at a writer's conference in San Diego getting my book read. Hopefully that will turn into an even better day.
Ok, I know that was a lame post, especially if you made it all the way to the end, but I think it might be fun for me to sometime later look back on my crappy day.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
1st Grade Trip to the Long Beach Aquarium
Last Friday I went with Eli on his class field trip to the Long Beach Aquarium. I always love going on my kids field trips cause I get to see how they interact with their classmates and I get to help them learn from the experiences that they have. This is one of my favorite trips... since I know so much about Biology I have lots of opportunities to help them learn new fun things. When Donald was in first grade he also went on the same field trip. I am so grateful that I am able to go spend time with my kids during the day.
This was my little group.
Eli was one of the kids chosen during one of the demonstrations and got to 'fish' for a sea jelly.
Eli and his teacher Ms. Maguire at a small tide pool.
Me and my monkey!
Octopus
Sea horse
Even though it was raining pretty hard, we still had a fun time and went out to see the sharks huddled under our umbrellas. We had a great lunch and then it was back to the bus where we spent 2 hours stuck in traffic with 40 first graders. That was the only part that sucked.
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