The Secret Lives of Teachers

About 15 people from my school went down to Las Vegas for a Kagan (school stuff) training. One first grade teacher is in love with Donny Osmond and two teachers went to see the Donnie and Marie show ($250 per person). They took millions of pictures with my camera (they left theirs at home) and bought T-shirts and sat starry eyed in our workshops for the next two days. This woman, Tammy, has been in love with Donny her whole life. She once got to go to a wedding reception where half the wedding party was the Osmond family and she shook Donny's hand in line. It's what she lives for and now she can die happy...she saw his concert and sleeps in his T-shirt. She's almost my age and it made me feel good to know there are other crazies in the world. She walks around school now with a constant smile and we know what she's thinking about. LOL

Connie the Amazing!

Not only does Connie wrestle 5 kids, keep Bishop Sowards fed and ironed, run fund raisers at the elementary school but she finds time to run down to my school and put up fabulous bulletin boards for me. Look at the size of this box of chocolates. It was huge..about 3 feet high it was filled with Little Debbie snack cakes in silver cupcake tins that made it look like a box of GIANT chocolates. The kids went crazy over it and insisted on eating a stale chocolate from the box 2 weeks later. I let them. Thanks Conners for making me "look good"!

Sexy Lady Brabra

6th Sense

I will always be amazed what pets let little children get away with that they don't let adults get away with. Kate was taking our cat Toast by the sides of the face and forcing her head around so she could look the cat in the face. Then she proceeded to point to the cat's eyes, her eyes, cat's nose, her nose. Toast let Kate mess with her repeatedly over and over again. When she turned her head away she then let Kate grab the sides of her face and turn her back. AMAZING! Animals have a 6th sense around babies I'm sure of it. My Grandmother, Dorothy Murial Norman Capener told me a story of her 5th birthday. Her mother had made her a brand new apron WITH A POCKET! That was her one and only present back in 1907. She was so excited she ran outside to show her Daddy. He had just opened the gate to let all the horses out to graze. The pack of horse was charging straight for her. She stopped dead in her tracks. The lead horse spotted her and jumped to the left and all the other horses blindly followed the first horse. She was left standing in a cloud of dust but untouched. Animals just have this 6th sense about little children.
(not a very glamourous setting for these pictures...but you have to click on the pics to enlarge them and see how cute Kate was with Toast).