birthday boy

Yesterday was my oldest son's 11th birthday. Wow, the time has flown by. Casey has been really excited about his birthday this year. He asked what time he was born so my husband and I sat down and looked at his baby book with him. Wow, that was a sweet moment and I am SO glad I took the time to scrapbook it all. Makes me realize I need to get on their elementary years (I stopped scrapbooking once I went back to work.)

We took his birthday candle out and laughed at how behind we were (3 years old.)

We must have forgotten to get it out some years. So we were determined to get it caught up. Easy, right? We accidentally left it burning all night (yikes, that could have been bad) and look how far it got...

Only to 6! No wonder we are so behind! In 12 hours it burned 3 years...looks like this will be a bigger undertaking than we thought. I still can't get my head around him going to middle school next year.

I am trying to get motivated to go to school and finish cleaning up. The last two years I had to move classrooms and learn new curriculum so it nice not to have a big job hanging over my head.  Since I live down the street I will probably go in occasionally to fiddle, which makes me feel like there is no rush to get the room finished. I don't know when the room will be cleaned so I guess I do need to finalize things.... OK....dragging myself to the shower...I feel SO lazy!!!! I have so many house projects too but I can't seem to get motivated. Guess I am still decompressing.

Third Grade Meanderings GIveaway

Amanda over at Third Grade Meanderings is having a great giveaway to celebrate reaching 100 followers.

She is giving away a $25 gift card to my favorite place, Barnes and Noble AND a cute-looking picture book.

Crossing my fingers I win-oh, but good luck to you too :-)

SUMMERTIME!

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime
(we play this song on the intercom about half an hour after the kids leave.)

I got a retired teacher to come sub for me for an hour so I could go to my son's 5th grade promotion ceremony (both my boys attend the same school where I teach.)

I got so many hugs and sweet letters from both students and parents. Look at all the wonderful gifts they gave me. They were very generous with gift cards which is especially helpful since my husband is still out of work. Can you tell I have a ladybug theme in my room?

I also got an orchid, and 2 more beautiful bouquets that didn't make it into the photo!

Now I can TRY to relax. I tend to still think about school a lot over the summer. Anyone else?

Miss Snowden's Giveaway

Want to win a Target, Walmart or Staple gift card? Head over to Miss Snowden's blog to enter.

OUCH!

My life has been baseball play-offs (2 boys=2 teams) and report cards this week. 

We had some extra excitement when my 8 year-old took a baseball to the face.

 

He was a trooper and still played in the game to help his team win!

We are having crazy cold weather in northern CA. I was wearing a sweatshirt, jacket, Uggs, and 2 blankets and I STILL froze at the game tonight!!!

I can't believe tomorrow is our last day of school.

I can't seem to get my head around planning what to do tomorrow.  

We already cleaned out our desks. We saw a movie for our party today since it was rainy here. 

I have 2 1/2 hours to fill. 

Ideas?