I have the best job!!

I have said before that I have the best job in the world, but today confirmed it. Today we had a guest author at school, Carmen Deedy. It was the most fun I have had at work in ages. Carmen is a local author so I have heard her speak several times before, but today she outdid herself. The kids and teachers did not want to leave the media center, they were begging for more. I know how they felt, I could have listened to her all day. If you are not familiar with her work you should check out her website: http://carmendeedy.com/ . We were lucky enough to get a sneak peek at her new book which will be coming out in the fall. It is the one of the most beautiful picture books that I have ever seen, 14 Cows for America, based on a true 9/11 story. I love all of her books, but my favorite is probably The Library Dragon, of course I would never, ever be a library dragon. My second favorite is The Last Dance. It was after reading this book for the first time that I made my husband he would dance with me every day, and we do. Some days our dance is in the kitchen before we eat breakfast, some days it is when I come home from work, and some days we have on our jammies and are ready for bed. Some days we don't feel like dancing but it is a promise that we made to each other so we dance and feel better for it. If you ever get the chance to hear Carmen please take advantage of it, she is a wonderful storyteller and author.

TGIF!!

I am so glad that today is Friday. This has been an incredibly long week. We did inventory in our media center this week, plus I had a huge presentation for my class on Monday night. I also had a wall hanging for school that had to be finished by today. We are doing a classroom extreme makeover. I finally finished it last night, much to the dismay of my machine. Now my machine no longer works. HAHHHHH! However the wall hanging did turn out nice. It is hard to see, but all of the students in the classroom signed a piece of fabric along with the administrators. I am really glad to be done with this project.

I also finished two other projects, an Easter bucket for my new great niece, Vivienne, and a hat for a great nephew. (believe it or not it will be a Christmas present. I am trying to get a head start on my gifts this year.

Man Plans, God Laughs!

This was a repetitive line in a book I read last week, and boy is it true.
No matter what I have planned recently, it seems like something has come along to change my plans. We had planned on driving up to our cabin on Friday night, but too much was going on, and we didn't make it up until Saturday morning. That was probably a good thing. There was a huge tree down across our drive way. We had to park, then walk in, change clothes, get the chain saw and other cutting tools. (of course I forgot my camera). It took a couple of hours to get everything cleared off of the drive, we left everything on the side of the drive to be dealt with next weekend. We headed over to my mother-in-laws house after the tree episode, we were celebrating her birthday. Most of the family was there and many of her neighbors. We had a really good time. Sunday was birthday time just for the family, which I didn't know about and had planned on getting back early yesterday to do some school work, plus laundry, and other chores. By the time we got back I didn't feel like doing too much, and I had class tonight, which cut into my time to get some other things done. I really wanted to finish my Bunny Hill block and I have a wall hanging that I am working on for school that has to be finished this week. They say we gained an hour this week, I haven't seen it yet. Every plan that I have made for the weekend, something came up to keep me from doing it. Hope all of you had better luck.

Only in Atlanta!

Only in Atlanta could it be snowing and in the teens and then 4 days later in the 70's. They say if you don't like the weather here, wait around and it will change in a few hours. Whoever they are have been right on target this year. I really like winter, but I don't like it winter one day and summer the next day. With weather like this no wonder so many people are sick. We had 12 kids sent home yesterday after they had "been sick in the hallway". I felt for our custodians. Today we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday, I know his birthday was really on Monday, but our school decided to celebrate today. I am exhausted. I read Barthelemew and the Oobleck too many times, and made entirely too many batches of Oobleck. For those of you that aren't around kids too much, Oobleck is made from water, food coloring and cornstarch. Kids love it!! The big question always is, is it a solid or a liquid. At least it is Friday, and I can rest up. We are headed to the cabin in the morning and will be back on Sunday. I have Block 3 of the Bunny Hill Basket series to work on and will hopefully finish it this weekend. Have a great weekend everyone.

National Pig Week

Sunday was National Pig Day, however since I love pigs I decided that this week should be National Pig Week. You can do things like this when you work in an elementary school. We have a display of pig books, with some really neat fabric I found online. You might think that there wouldn't be that many books with pigs as characters, but once you start looking there are really a lot; all of the versions of the Three Little Pigs, Olivia, Toot and Puddle, plus dozens of others. I am reading pig stories to kindergarten this week and serving "slop". I tell them I have my very own special recipe for slop and it is even better with sprinkles. After one taste, the slop is very popular, because everyone likes chocolate pudding. I found these pigs playing in the snow and since there is still some snow left in Atlanta this morning I thought it was perfect. Hope everyone has a great day.

Snow Day!!

Joe and I went to Mississippi over the weekend to visit with my mom. She is doing really well, she has her next chemo treatment this Friday. If all goes as scheduled she will finish her treatments in April. Please keep her in your prayers. On Saturday night it started snowing, and snowed most of the night. When we left on Sunday morning there was about 4 inches of snow there. Driving back to Atlanta was no fun. ( I am glad that Joe was driving and not me.) We had just gone through Birmingham when it really started snowing, and snowing, and snowing. It was still snowing when we went to bed last night. Needless to say there was no school today. I know we will have to make it up, but it was so nice to have the day off that I didn't mind at all. This is our front yard covered in snow. It isn't that often that we get snow in Atlanta. I tried to make a snowman this morning but the snow was frozen and really didn't work for a snowman. What can I say, I am still a kid at heart. At least I got some sewing done today. I am working on the sashing and borders for the Pat Sloan block of the month from last year. I also started an Easter bucket for my great niece. Now it is time to hit the books and work on a project for school.

And the Winner Is!!

I know I am late in announcing the winner of my blog giveaway. I was out of town over the weekend, went to visit my mom. The winner is Anett from Oregon, her blog is House of Mouse. Anett please send me your address and I will get your goodies in the mail to you.