Monday, August 25, 2008
Help Needed!!
Hi all. As I begin my graduate school experience today, it turns out that all my classes are in the afternoon. I in my attempt to be a good wife/mother I am searching for crock pot recipies. (That way, when Norm comes home early to take care of the kids, he won't have to worry about fixing dinner) If you have a great recipie or know of a great crock pot recipie book, please let me know. Thanks to all!
Friday, August 8, 2008
More Fun with Frogs
Monsoon season in Tucson brings with it ponds of water where frogs & toads develop. Every year my children love to catch the tiny frogs that appear all over the place after a good monsoon rain.
Wednesday afternoon they went out frog hunting with their neighborhood friends. They came back with a bucket full of these tiny frogs. Of course, they wanted to keep them all as pets. Rachel had even snuck a tupperware bowl out to put her three special frogs in. Andrew's friend, Blake, thought they could go around and sell them to people, but couldn't tell me why people would want them.
I was a nice enough mom to let them keep them over night in our garage (though I was sure that many would be dead in the morning) as long as they promised to let them go the next afternoon. I assisted in getting them to put a rock or two in the buckets so the frogs would a place to escape out of the water to. We covered Rachel's bowl with some plastic wrap and poked holes into it (her bowl had pretty low sides and her frogs kept trying to climb out). At bed-time, the frogs had to be said good-night to. In the morning, suprisingly only 2 frogs were dead, but all three of Rachel's frogs had escaped (she had left the plastic loose when saying good-night). After school the they all went together to free their friends after one last ditch plea to let them keep them longer. I'm not that nice ;)
Rachel's 3: Sparkle, Princess, & Star
A few of the many Andrew & Cory caught
Wednesday afternoon they went out frog hunting with their neighborhood friends. They came back with a bucket full of these tiny frogs. Of course, they wanted to keep them all as pets. Rachel had even snuck a tupperware bowl out to put her three special frogs in. Andrew's friend, Blake, thought they could go around and sell them to people, but couldn't tell me why people would want them.
I was a nice enough mom to let them keep them over night in our garage (though I was sure that many would be dead in the morning) as long as they promised to let them go the next afternoon. I assisted in getting them to put a rock or two in the buckets so the frogs would a place to escape out of the water to. We covered Rachel's bowl with some plastic wrap and poked holes into it (her bowl had pretty low sides and her frogs kept trying to climb out). At bed-time, the frogs had to be said good-night to. In the morning, suprisingly only 2 frogs were dead, but all three of Rachel's frogs had escaped (she had left the plastic loose when saying good-night). After school the they all went together to free their friends after one last ditch plea to let them keep them longer. I'm not that nice ;)
Rachel's 3: Sparkle, Princess, & Star
A few of the many Andrew & Cory caught
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
New Discovery
So my little bro & sis turned me on to Pandora.com. I've been having a blast with it this morning. How come no one told me about it before?! I love how I can put in one band that I like and they will come up with other music that is similar and that I love too! I've found my new cleaning/web surfing/being lazy music station. I'm addicted!! If you haven't heard of it, check it out.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
New Church Callings
I knew it was coming, but was still slightly surprised when Norm & I were asked to meet with the 1st councelor in the bishopbric today before church. We have been serving as the wolf den leaders together for the past few months. I recently found that my class schedule was not going to be condusive to having den meetings in the early afternoon. I did what I have only done once before and let the primary know that I would need to be released from the calling. Norm & I hoped that our new callings would allow us to spend time together as being wolf leaders did, but we didn't hold out much hope (knowing that the primary was short on teachers, & that Norm had just been released from 4 years of teaching primary we didn't think they'd put him back in with me).
So, Norm is now the new assistant cub master (a calling he's had before) and I am teaching the Valient 9 class. I actually only have half of the 9 year olds because there are 16 of them. Andrew will be one of my students & I know all the other boys from working with them in cub scouts. I was surprized to find that of the 8 boys that are that age, 6 are in my class (I wonder what the thought process was on that one?). They're an active group of boys. I was asking Andrew about the kids in his class on the way home (he didn't know I was their new teacher) and he filled me in on who the always good, sometimes good/sometimes bad, and troublemakers were (I pretty much knew it all already and was impressed when he included himself in the good/bad group, Kellie- Kennedy made the always good list). He also told me that they've scared off all their teachers, so the boys think they're pretty "bad"
Anyway, it will be a needed challenge for me to keep their interest & keep the misbehaving at a minimum (I already know who to keep separate). It's been quite a few years since I've had a calling as a teacher in primary (approx 10-11 yrs ago I held the calling for a few months before we moved to Seattle & since then it's been mainly primary/relief society pianist or cub scouts) so any of you who have more recent experience, I'll gladly take advice.
So, Norm is now the new assistant cub master (a calling he's had before) and I am teaching the Valient 9 class. I actually only have half of the 9 year olds because there are 16 of them. Andrew will be one of my students & I know all the other boys from working with them in cub scouts. I was surprized to find that of the 8 boys that are that age, 6 are in my class (I wonder what the thought process was on that one?). They're an active group of boys. I was asking Andrew about the kids in his class on the way home (he didn't know I was their new teacher) and he filled me in on who the always good, sometimes good/sometimes bad, and troublemakers were (I pretty much knew it all already and was impressed when he included himself in the good/bad group, Kellie- Kennedy made the always good list). He also told me that they've scared off all their teachers, so the boys think they're pretty "bad"
Anyway, it will be a needed challenge for me to keep their interest & keep the misbehaving at a minimum (I already know who to keep separate). It's been quite a few years since I've had a calling as a teacher in primary (approx 10-11 yrs ago I held the calling for a few months before we moved to Seattle & since then it's been mainly primary/relief society pianist or cub scouts) so any of you who have more recent experience, I'll gladly take advice.
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