It's Arriving Today!

While my crazy school schedule leaves me little time to blog or knit or do anything other than work and sleep lately, today is a very busy FUN day finally for me! My son is on his way to us with my Laptop! I am so excited. I can't believe how much I have missed it. After the excitement of getting it back, DH and I are going on a date! We are headed into the city for dinner and a hockey game!

I don't know how I will handle all of this in one day!

The Road to H*** is paved with good intentions!

My father used to say this, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I am beginning to think that perhaps my good intentions are not good enough! I have such good intentions. I always mean to send out those birthday cards on time. After all I buy them weeks in advance. Then the darn date comes and I don't mail them until AFTER the birthday, or anniversary or whatever.

I promised to post knitting pics. As you all know, that really hasn't happened. I have a pile of grading to do so I can post my grades this weekend. I came home intending to sit and grade. That didn't happen. I did create a new lesson for tomorrow's Reading class.

I enjoy watching the Food Network. I figure if I can get lunches made for tomorrow and the dishes cleaned up from breakfast etc, I can give myself a half hour before supper. Well, that didn't happen. I am forever intending to do things. I have a to-do list a mile long. I have drapes for every room in my house to winterize and they are mostly still in the boxes.

What is wrong with me!! Someone at school today said that dreaded "M" word. Afterall, I am at that age and having those darn hot flashes. Could my brain be mush because of dare I say Menopausal symptoms?? I guess it sounds better than blaming it on laziness.

I hope you are all accomplishing things! I only seem to be accomplishing nothing and I seem to do it well. Calgon.....

I cannot believe it is October 16th! and lack of motivation

I knew that not having my laptop would hinder my ability to get on a computer and check my favorite blogs. However, I didn't realize just how busy I would be with my job also that would keep me away so long.

My son continues to work on my computer and may have it fixed. We have already decided to start shopping to get one AFTER Windows 7 comes out if he can't fix my old one. I've been knitting away and just when I finally get my own camera and learn how to put on pics, I don't have my laptop. So...once again, I have a broken promise with regards to knitting pics. I am making it my priority once I get up and running again on a routine basis.

I've been knitting for my grandson. I made a hat and mittens for him to wear in December and probably through the winter. I have two sweaters finished and a hat and two pair of booties. I crocheted a blanket in the colors of the nursery. Right now I am knitting mittens for my daughter. She was happy with the ones for "Ryan" but then told me she didn't have any of her own....so, I led her to the stash bin and she picked out a wool and that's what I am working on now.

That is...when I don't fall asleep from exhaustion!

I am still hitting the gym most mornings before school at 5:20AM. I love it actually except I do tend to take Friday mornings off. The problem is by 8:00 I am wiped. I love it though. My clothes fit better and I feel physically better than before.

I still have my mom in her own home so that is a lot more work. But, I want to keep her there as long as possible. She is starting to do weird things though so I don't know how long that will be. She insists on filling every grape juice jug up with water and putting it in her fridge now after she finishes the juice. When I told her I had to empty some (there were 10 last week) she was not happy. I told her that if I didn't empty any then I couldn't buy her more juice!

School this year is so busy. There are just so many more very needy kids. I am trying to reinvent lessons to try and get kids motivated and it is taking so much time. They still look at me like I am crazy. I want them to learn what they need to and I really put my heart and soul into teaching. Every year though it seems more and more kids come in and could care less. Their parents don't care either. There is NO motivation anymore just to do well.

Well......I am not going to be doom and gloom on a Friday. Hooray for Friday and Chinese food for supper. After taking mom to bowl and returning her home for the evening, I may just get a chance to knit before my eyes shut!

A Welcome Shower and a broken Laptop

I have been soooo busy lately with school and getting ready for my daughter's baby shower! I am happy to report that the shower was a huge success yesterday and I took a suggestion for a fellow knitting blogger and had a decorating party! I prewashed 26 bibs and 50 t-shirts of various sizes from onesies to pullovers etc. I then used a giftbag for each center piece with a poem written on the side of the bag. Inside the bag were fabric markers, card stock inserts and the t-shirts and bibs. While guests awaited DD's arrival, they began to decorate their products. We designated a table for drying and showing off and what fun we had!!! I had the caterer serve cheese and crackers and fruit with coffee and punch right off the bat. They continued to work on them throughout the afternoon in between two games of baby shower bingo and a chance to guess at how big DD's belly was! (38" was the answer) Once all of the gifts were opened there was a light lunch of salad rolls, salads, and cake! Of course there was too much so we had to call the guys, (Great Grampa, Grampa to be, and the Uncles) to come eat. In return we had THEM load the cars with all the loot.

Today I ran right over to her apartment after work to see all of her gifts since I was too busy playing hostess yesterday. Sadly I didn't get a picture of the sweater I made. Just as well because Saturday my laptop decided it had lived out it's life to the fullest and quietly passed away in the night. My oldest son came home and tried to revive it but to no avail. So, it is now in Boston with him so he can back up my harddrive and have it ready when I get a new one. DH and I talked and it won' t be until November because I am going to wait for Windows 7 to come out and I am looking for a Black Friday deal!! For now, I have to suffer through the next two months using DH's slow ancient desktop and it's going to be tough. Real tough. But they say things like this make us stronger! ha ha. I can't believe how much stuff I had on my laptop!

BACK UP YOUR COMPUTERS TO A THUMB DRIVE TODAY PEOPLE!

Really, I always said I was going to do it but I never did it!

Here's to hoping all of you are well and I hope to find links to your blogs. I have a few on my favorites scroll but there were so many more I am going to miss!

Remembering 9/11

Today is a solem day in the USA. Today we all remember eight years ago, at 8:46am. I am thinking about the families who lost loved ones and hoping they have found some sort of peace and have been able to carry on their lives. I don't know how I could have. Toby Keith's song that says we took a "sucker punch" really sums it up. I don't think we will be sucker punched again. God Bless our Military as they perform their jobs!

We all must always remember 9/11

My blogging mojo has been gone for a bit because I have been sooooo busy with starting a new school year, planning a shower, and my daughter has been sick. She contracted the flu and was very ill last week. She had to keep checking for a temperature. She had the sore throat and the body aches. She could barely move. She has asthma so she was wheezing. Not a good thing when you are 6 months pregnant. She ended up in the hospital for one night and is now on the road to recovery, thank God. The baby is fine and I am thankful for that too. In fact, he is strong because last night she told me she feels like she has a bruised rib from his kicking her all the time in that spot!!

44 New Ones Arrived Today!

I have been really busy since my last post weeks ago getting ready for a new school year. The change from not working to working again has been a hard one this summer for me. I really enjoyed the not working days. I started back on Monday with two days of meetings etc and working in my classroom. Today 44 new kids arrived on my team. Don't worry, I do not have all 44 in one class. These are the kids on my team that are split up between me and another teacher.

This was the best "First Day" of school I've every worked. The schedule went pretty smoothly. This is the honeymoon period however. Those of you that are teachers know what I mean. The kids are excellent for a week or two until their true colors shine through!! lol

My baby shower preparations are almost finished. I just have a few more things to do before the end of September. I've been working on a sweater set and have the booties to knit. Then I will look for some other sweater or maybe a winter hat for my little grandson.

The hurricane missed us here and we had nothing but excruciatingly hot weather. Today it finally broke and I feel a cool breeze on my back porch! Yipee.

I hope everyone is well and enjoying the last times of summer!

Summertime and the livin is easy!

It's been a while since I posted. I haven't worked on much of anything with regards to knitting. I did work some on a baby blanket for our new little one. We got back Saturday from our annual vacation in York Beach, Maine. Those of you that read about last year's vacation will remember that it rained every day last year. At one point there was even a leak in our ceiling in our apartment and ceiling tiles came crashing down!

This year the weather was perfect! One foggy day but no rain to speak of. The remaining six days were full of sunshine. The biggest decision each day was between sitting under the umbrella, outside the umbrella, or with our chairs in the water! Coming back to reality is a tough one! We were exhausted from doing nothing, which I guess means, the less you do, the more you want to do less!

Now, I am trying to catch up laundry, get the house in order for school coming up (8/24), and finalize plans for that baby shower the end of September! I am actually on my way into school today to work for awhile in my new classroom.

I am hoping to start a sweater tonight for little 'Ryan'. I've been working on a crocheted blanket and am missing the knitting needles in my hands! One of the to-do things on my summer list was to get to know how to use my camera to post pics. I promise, I really do, to do that before I start back to work.

Happy Monday!