Friday Night Lights

We are not just teachers, we are…

·         Moms

·         Wives

·         Daughters

·         Sisters

·         Friends

·         Co-Workers

So take a break and do a little something for you.

After a long week of work it was time for my break for the week.  I spent my break under the Friday night lights of our homecoming football game where my youngest son was up for homecoming king along with his girlfriend.

We spent a fun filled evening with family (children home from college) and friends.  

Now take the time for you it can be anything, just do something you deserve it!

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You have to laugh when…

You have to laugh when you hear your co-worker calling your name and “Yelling I need your help in here.”  You walk down the hall to find her with her butt up in the air reaching between her desk and the wall.  In a soft whisper you here her say “I’m stuck.”  Once I stopped laughing which took me a few minutes.  She yells, “I’m being serious I’m stuck to a mouse trap, it’s stuck to my dog tag (name badg on a lanyard) which is stuck to the desk.”  She thought I was laughing before once she said that I laughed so hard I could not breath.  Once I started laughing she started laughing and we had a hard time composing our selves to get her unstuck.  We are talking those industrial sticky mouse traps have some serious stick to them.  It took everything I had to get her unstuck off that desk, and then what?  It stuck to me, both hands.  Nothing like a good laugh to get the day going.

Take the time to laugh with one another because, what soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Rolling Out The Paper

It is amazing at how children will want to come and draw and write if you just simple roll out a large sheet of paper. 

This child would not draw a person for us at small group activity time, but lay out a large sheet of paper and he sat down for about 20 minutes and drew people after people.

An Adventure Awaits

This week we have packed up our oldest son and sent him on an adventure to find his way through life and to fulfill his dreams.  He is college bound to the University of Nevada Reno. 

After getting to see the campus I wish I could do it all over again.  I mean the things that colleges have now days who wouldn’t want to go.

Just for the Fun of It

We are not just teachers, we are…

• Moms

• Wives

• Daughters

• Sisters

• Friends


• Co-Workers

So take a break and do a little something for you.

Here is my break for the week….

With all of the hard work and sweat that we have been giving to our jobs lately, we decided to take a break and show the children that we too can have fun.  They loved it and thought it was funny to see the teachers laughing and having a good time at play.

Take the time to have a good laugh this week and do something that makes you feel young again.

Enjoying the Children

We are not just teachers, we are…



• Moms


• Wives


• Daughters


• Sisters


• Friends


• Co-Workers


So take a break and do a little something for you.


This Sunday will be my first post of a new series of post for not only the teachers in all of us, but also for the need of taking a little time just us.


My take a break for me this week was enjoying seeing my youngest go off to the prom.

Taking the time to standing back and enjoying every moment that I have with them before I have an empty nest, is my break for the week. 

Negotiation With the Alarm Clock

Have you ever had to negotiate with your alarm clock in the morning?  I have to say that is how my morning has started.   I am already a snooze button hitter to begin with, but there are mornings that the alarm goes off and I have that mental negotiation with myself so that I can stay in bed for five more minutes.  It goes something like this…

·         I won’t curl my hair today (5 more minutes)

·         I won’t wear something this morning that needs to be ironed (5 more minutes)

·         I will drink my coffee at work (5 more minutes)

·         I will order a school lunch (5 more minutes) You know it is going to be one of those 
           days when I am willing to have a school lunch.

·         I will eat a granola bar in the car on my way to work (5 more minutes)

So now I’m running late… Not a good thing when you’re a teacher and being prepared for the day is the best way to start with the right foot forward.  Let’s just say I hope those extra minutes pay off for me today.  Wish me luck. 

Sometimes We Need To Act Young

We are not just teachers, we are…

• Moms

• Wives
• Daughters
• Sisters
• Friends
• Co-Workers

So take a break and do a little something for you.

Here is my break for the week or should I say I good laugh that we all need this week.

Things have been a little stressful around the work place lately with all the budget cuts and not know if we are staying or going.  So we needed to take the time to act young again and did it feel good to laugh with all the girls at work. 

This day let us all know no matter if we stay or go we are all a tight knit of friends and co-worker and some things just won’t change and that is our Friendships!

Take the time to have a good laugh this week and do something that makes you feel young again. 

The Dyslexic Blogger

I have been asked so…

I’m just going to let everyone know now that I’m a dyslexic blogger.  My writing is not perfect, but I don’t let that stop me.

You will find me adding extra e’s to the ends of words, don’t ask me why.  I remember my mom asking me that while I was growing up and would always tell her because it makes it look better.  I guess that is my same reason (today).  If it doesn’t look right just add an e.  I know you are asking yourself right now just hit spell check.  Yes spell check is great, but when you have Dyslexia and words are spelled similarly I can’t distinguish the right one, and lets all face it the English language is not perfect.  So you will find me…

·         Using saw for was – I see it that way and if I’m in a hurry I won’t remember to revise it.  Spell check won’t work for those because it is spelled right.

·         Tough- should me spelled Tuff but it is not so I will spell things just how they sound to me.

·         If there are to many similar letters in a word I can not distinguish between the two.  Example (i and l), (s and z), (b and d), and (m and w).

·         I can not remember for the life of me all the rules for spelling i before e except after c or is it e before i except after c anyway it all sounds the same to me.

·         It takes me 3 days to write what it takes you a day.  So I might not have the post most of you do.

My writing is not perfect, but I’m not going to let that stop me.  I read a lot of your blogs and it inspires me to try and do the same.  I write to try and improve my skill and not lose what I have learned over the years.  So bear with me I’m dyslexic and a big part of why I’m a Preschool Teacher.  I feel that if I would have been given the chance by my early year teachers that I could learn, I could have been so much more.  Instead I heard “Don’t bother with her she can’t learn.”