Substitute Teaching

Lately I have been spending alot of time in other teachers' classrooms as a substitute teacher. Something or someone makes me laugh every single day and I am always on my toes waiting for what the students might throw at me next. I have decided to share some of these memorable moments with my readers beginning with today's classroom. Since the students will need to remain anonymous I will label them alphabetically and try to leave out important details that would clue you in to my location. With that said... Today was my second day in the same classroom so the students were expecting me. As I was walking to the classroom before the start of class I met one of the students in the hallway. Friend 'A' put his arms around me to give me a hug and tell me how pretty I was today (gotta love the little ones.) I asked Friend 'A' if we were going to have a good day today and he replied while gesturing to my shoes "with the way you are dressed, I think yes." I love that elementary students are easily impressed by high heels and sparkly necklaces! To prove my point here a few more wardrobe comments from today. Later in the day as the class was walking from the restroom back to the class one of the students was galloping instead of walking. I told the student that we need to use quiet feet in the hallway to which they replied "you have the loud feet. Your shoes go click, click, click." Touche I thought, high heels are loud! After arriving back in the classroom we began lining up for lunch time. One of the boys began playing with my necklace and asked me if it was made of real diamonds. I informed him that the necklace was plastic and if it were made of diamonds I would be at home eating chocolates rather than working. He paused for a moment as if to think and then informed me "rich people can work too, besides if you don't have a job you have to go to prison." I guess I will continue to work then :)

Bad Blogger

So I am an awful first time blogger! I mean to blog on a regular basis but I just get so busy doing other things. Of course, if I didn't do other things I would have nothing to blog about. Anyways I am now reading One Year To An Organized Life by Regina Leeds. This book breaks down the year week by week with tasks to lead towards a more organized life. I do like my cleaning and organizing in manageable bite size chunks. I am thrilled to get started. Maybe on my next post I will have some new success to share!

Operation Organization

I just finished reading How to Organize Just About Everything by Peter Walsh. The book was huge but it was filled with the most random and interesting tidbits. For example, did you know that if you soak cotton balls in bleach and place them in mildewy corners of the shower or bath when you start cleaning that by the time you are finished cleaning the mildew should be gone. Now that to me is useful information! Anyways, yesterday I began my operation organization in the bathrooms. I filled up an entire garbage bag with expired medicine and random makeup samples that cause clutter and never seem to be used. I felt good about all my work at the end of the day and I was excited to show Ian what I had done. I guess I had a lot of energy yesterday since I organized two bathrooms, hung pictures in the bedroom, made dinner, and made a loaf of banana bread. Lets hope today is just as productive!

A Fresh Start

So, it is not January 1st anymore but I am just now getting around to my New Year's Resolutions. For 2010 my goals include getting organized, getting back to the basics (cut out the things that cause stress) in my life, taking better care of myself, and getting Ian to join me in these endeavors. I decided to start blogging for two reasons. First, I love to read other people's blogs so maybe I could write something just as interesting. Second, I like the idea of having a record of my year that I can refer back to for scrapbooking or just to reminisce. Hopefully I will be able to stick with this even if my only reader is my mom!