Our Crazy Amazing Life

Where the Crazy turns into something Amazing

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I'm a stay at home mom who's found blogging to be the best way to vent rationally. I love spending time with my family. This blog is my journal, since I find journaling to be somewhat tedious, so if you visit often, just know that things will be "real."

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Journal Jar Prattle #2

I still don't feel like uploading ALL the numerous (why did I take that many pictures?!) camping pictures. So I've decided to do the Journal Jar. It's just much easier as I'm feeling rather lazy today. I guess I better get over that as we've got things to do today.

"WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? WHY?"

Let's see...There was Mrs. Newfarmer (yes the name connotes hippiness, and guess what, she was!) She was my kindergarten teacher and she was AWESOME. The school did this experiment with the kindergartens that year I was 5. One of the classes was to include Phonics in their reading program, the other wasn't. Luckily for me, my class was the one who had it. Here's the interesting thing: the kids in my class turned into great readers and went on to do really well in English while the other kids did okay. That's not to say that if you didn't have Phonics growing up that you're a poor reader. I'm just saying that as the years went by, the teachers could pick out the kids who had Mrs. Newfarmer's class because we were great readers. I ended up getting her in third grade as well, and really the only thing I can remember is that she wouldn't let us color with yellow. Absolutely forbid it cause it hurt her eyes.

Scary.

I also like Ms. Sincavage, my second grade teacher, who, to me, was the most gorgeous teacher on the face of the planet. She used to dress up for christmas in an Elf costume. It was so cute! Of course now that I view this with an adult perspective, that red skirt was REEALLLY short. She got married halfway through the year and became Mrs. Goleneski. Her fiance would visit our class every now and then.

Then there was Ms. Rasband who was more than a teacher when I was in High School, but a great mentor as well. She was my math teacher for two years, and then took pity on me and gave me a C when I had her for Pre Calculus. I think I should've gotten a D.

All in all, I've been pretty lucky that I've had amazing teachers through the years!

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Funny Things The Kids Say

One day Andon and I were talking about our hearts. He asked me how they worked, I gave him an explanation a 4 y r old could understand, (the only one I understand.) The very next day, I said something to Zak. Something that went along the lines of, "quit that!" or some such demand. Andon then says to me: "Mommy, listen to your heart. That's not very nice." Needless to say I felt like a complete and total toad. Just goes to show that you can always learn more from your children than you could ever teach them yourself.

While we were camping, Andon and our friend's son were sitting next to one another. Brayden who is 15 says to Andon, "I've known you since you were a baby." Andon replies, "I've known me since I was a baby too!"


Brittnee is our funny bone. The things she says sometimes are so dang funny! One day, as she was walking by Doug she says, "Hello, my good man." We both looked at her and we both began cracking up. This is how she's referred to him lately.


I was sitting on the couch taking a breather after dinner and Andon walks past me into the kitchen. He had a car in his hand and as he walked by the fridge he must have dropped it because I heard him say, "tartar sauce!" I suppose I should limit his sponge bob watching.


I was in the car with the kids coming home from Britt's tap class and she was telling me about the school BBQ that day. She mentioned that her friend got sick. I asked her what happened and she said, "Layla has lots of diseases so she had to go home." I didn't think I heard her clearly, so I repeated back, "diseases?" Britt said, "Yes, Diseases." By this time I was truly perplexed because I knew she didn't really mean disease, but I couldn't figure out what she DID mean. Then Teaghan pipes up and says, "You mean ALLERGIES?" Brittnee says, "Oh yeah, that's what it is. ALLERGIES!" I laughed heartily, the kind where your shoulders shake and your stomach hurts.


We were at the school today, and on one of the playgrounds is these cubes that turn. On them are the states and their capitols. There's quite a few of them, and they're all blue. Zakry starts playing with them and turning them all, and then I hear, "mommy, look, a car wash." I suppose the large blue cubes reminded him of the car wash we went on last week. So funny!!