January 15, 2008

Happy 59th Birthday to my mom! I've not gotten to talk to her yet today. I was running late this morning and she works late on Tuesdays, so, I'll call her in a little while. I hope she had a good day.

It was a pretty good day for me. We got a lot done in class and the kids worked really hard. My staff meeting was virtually painless today.

Tonight was Michaela's SOAR night. SOAR is the gifted program that she attends through the school district. She goes to it on Tuesdays instead of going to her regular class. They have been working on learning about countries and poverty in other places in the world. Michaela has mainly been learning about Peru, that was the country she picked/got this year for her first semester projects in SOAR. They did a report on it, made up a story about how the country got its shape, did a Power Point presentation on what they'd learned, did a news cast on their project, and made a poster to illustrate important things about their countries. She amazes me a lot of the time. She loves SOAR and is very excited to find out what their second semester theme will be.

Caleb got Daddy to play Raving Rabbids with him tonight. Michael really got into the bumper cars game. He was having fun with that and with the hot plate game and the football game. Caleb didn't like that Daddy caught on so fast and started beating him at all the games he's been practicing. *LOL* MIchaela was happy to see someone beating Caleb.

They are in bed now. My mom should be home from work soon, I'll call her. Michael will be home from grocery shopping so then I'll put away the groceries, take a shower and go to bed. Tomorrow is hump day!