January 5, 2009

It was back to work for me today. I had three students absent. It was a pretty productive day for us, though. I was proud of myself and my class. We jumped right back into our routine and for the most part they were pretty good about it. It was one of the smoothest transitions back after Winter Break that I've ever had.

Michaela and Caleb stayed with their grandparents today. They went swimming at the YMCA and ate lunch at Applebee's. It sounds like they spent the rest of the day playing games and messing around with their Nintendo DS's.

This evening we were supposed to have ham and beans for supper, but I forgot to turn the crock pot down and they burned. The kids ate their Kid Cuisine meals. I had to take Michaela to gymnastics so I grabbed Wendy's while she was having her lesson. I got Arby's for Michael on the way home.

While Michaela and I were at gymnastics, Michael's brother came over. Michael had taken our nephew's mp3 player to work to solder some parts on it. His brother came over to get that and to help Michael with our home network some more. My laptop can now finally see the hard drive on the desk top computer. They also got the Wii and both of the kids' DS's hooked up to the WiFi. Michael and Caleb were racing other people from other countries on the Wii playing Mario Cart when we got home.

I'm hoping tonight I sleep better than last night. I always seem to be restless the night before going back to work after a break. But, I'm really tired tonight so hopefully, that will help me sleep well.