5 days off!

Gone from school on vacation until Monday!!!!!!!!!!

5 whole days to not have to make lunches, watch the clock in the morning making sure they don't miss the bus and not have to rush out myself!

To celebrate this wonderful time off I will be making a Thanksgiving feast.

To be eaten here on Thursday.

This year I am doing what I want: I am old enough to make this choice:

I am roasting 3 whole chickens in a counter roaster I purchased last year to make the turkey taste better. (still did not like it)

I am serving twice baked potatoes.

I am making homemade stuffing.

I am not serving yucky gravy, yucky turkey or yucky cranberries.

I will also have a relish tray, fruit salad, raspberry jello, broccoli casserole with Cheese It's on top, homemade Bille Hauter Rolls, and pies.

Trust me no one will miss the turkey. We will be sad missing Colby..he is not coming home.

The track coach grabbed Jake by the shoulders and made him promise he would NOT play in a turkey bowl.

So you see it's just a different year...but I still get 5 days off!!!!!!!!!!!

There is such a thing as a free lunch.

Our principal, as a tradition buys all the school employees lunch when it's the Thanksgiving Feast. It was soooo good. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, wheat roll, relish tray with ranch, fruit salad and pumpkin pie with a little squirt of whip cream. It was fun to see all the kids and adults eat the same meal. I think the lunch room served a little less than 700 meals.



One things that was interesting was that it was taking longer than usual to get the kids through so we had to do an all-call and ask the teachers to hold the kids 5 minutes before sending them down. When I went down to the lunchroom there was our principal behind the serving area working with them trying to get them caught up. He really is a kind, helpful and busy man!

Can I call home?

Yesterday it seemed like 100 kids came down to call home. Today I decided to keep track.

At least 15 kids came down, anything from I have a headache to my stomach hurts, my braces hurt, I was home sick yesterday and I came back too early, I hurt my head, I got a bee sting (really? it has snowed and been freezing like 18 degrees in the morning how are those bees still alive?)

We had a dislocated finger today and a 3rd grade boy scratched the back of a 6th grade boy's neck down to blood. The duty guard were sure there was a bobcat out by the fence but it was a big house cat.

But this was the cutest statement of the day. This was told to us by a girl around 8 years old

I need to call my mom, I have something wrong with me that won't harm anyone but it hurts when I pee so I have to take these big orange pills and now my stomach hurts. Since this was right before her lunch we had her go and eat and if it still hurt she could come back and we would call her mom.

It was so cute when she said it won't harm anyone. I had to hide my smile.

With all those kids coming down I figured it was 10% today. Pretty high number I think.

"Give Said the Little Stream"

This should have been my first post on my blog because happened last week (Friday to be exact) and it made me know for sure that I have to be recording this and other funny things that happen at my school.

Let's start by saying this could only happen in Utah! Where you can tell a funny story about me all day long and then even tell this fine fellow (the letter carrier) and he gets it!



At the start of the day last Friday my fellow secretary got on the subject of church Primary songs and we talked about Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree. I said that I had grew up in Alaska and had not ever seen that until I moved out of there when I was 12. The custodian was up there too and we talked if that song had any meaning.



It was such an innocent statement.



Then I asked , "Why should it have meaning?" and my fellow secretary said all Primary songs have meaning, a lesson. I said, "No way," and she said, "Take "Give Said the Little Stream" for instance. That's a song about service."

I said, "Whoa, wait a minute. That song is about service?' She told me a little about it and I said "Oh, OK I get it."

Then we got busy so I dropped the conversation.

About an hour later I went to the bathroom and was humming the song to myself. (trying to figure it out)

I came out of the bathroom and said to her Are you sure? What does this line have to do with service. "I'm small I know but whereever I go the grass grows greener still." She cracked up and told me.

I was dumbfounded. I could not believe that I never knew that.

I had to call my sister who grew up with me right then so I used my cell and called her while she was at work and asked her and guess what? She had no idea herself either.



Well, that is when my fellow secretary decided to ask teachers as they came through the office if they knew that song was about service. (They all did :( !!! )

This was the final straw, when she asked the letter carrier when he came through the door and he knew the song was about service also. That's why he is standing there looking so smug in the picture! Not really, but he hopes he gets famous off my blog. Well, that is what he says.

It was my Twin Day at School

Well, for me today it was.

Long ago, in September my lead secretary was invited to attend a conference at BYU. She could take one other secretary with her. So she invited the other secretary and had me invite my twin to work with me today. So we each put it on our calenders and we watched and waited as it got closer and closer. (My twin worked with me last year there at the school one day a week. I was an aide for 6th grade and she was a kindergarten aide so she is familiar to people there)

Today was the long awaited day. We dressed alike even down to our shoes and we had the best day.

We got to spend the whole day together and we worked well together. It was a hard day with alot of things going on but we made it the best day ever!

Really Cute

A parent came in today to work in the Take Home Reading Library. She had a cute little girl about the age of 2 1/2 or 3 with her. The girl was wearing pink clothes with golden curly hair. As the mother was leaving she came by and told us goodbye and then as she turned to leave and go out the door, it was the cutest thing:

That cute little girl reached up and held her hand up and she just knew that her mother was reaching down to take her hand. The little girl had her hand up but did not look at the mother and the mother just took her hand. That little girl was walking and looking ahead at the door. I thought it was so cute that the little girl just knew that her mother was there ready to walk out with her, hand in hand.

Veteran's Day 11-11-2009

My neighborhood street.....sigh....I love the sight of it. This is the last time this summer the flags will be out. Logan got up at 5:50 am and met with the other scouts at the park to put these flags out. How I love them. The wind is blowing them lightly as I walked home from school and they were rippling. My grandpa, Richard, was a veteran and fought in 3 wars, Vietnam, Korean and World War 2. I think of him on this day. He was a great man. He raised my dad, also a great man.

Early Out Monday

How many weeks have we been in school?

Monday is Early Out Monday. All classes leave one hour early.
Kindergarten has a tricky schedule for the PM classes. They come one half an hour early and leave one half hour early so I understand that is tricky at the start.

Phone rings, "When do the buses pick up my afternoon kindergartner?" "You back the pick-up time up one half hour." "What?, I don't get it."
Phone rings. "I got to the bus stop and the bus was not there. "
Person walks in late to sign in their child on the orange clipboard, "I forgot today was early Monday!"

Today we had a kindergarten child show up one half early for school so he sat in the office. Guess what? At the end of the 'shortened' day 2 boys came in, no one there to pick them up. I called the home and then the mothers' work. Daycare forgot it was early out day. Here's the sad thing.....the day care lady did not get there to pick them up until school had been out one hour and 20 minutes!
Boys sat a LOOOONG TIME AT THE END OF THE DAY BUT ONE OF THOSE POOR BOYS WHO SAT THERE AND WAITED AT THE END OF THE DAY WAS THE SAME POOR KINDERGARTNER ALSO HAD SAT WITH US AT THE START OF HIS DAY.

It's up and running!

Today, I made my blog about my experiences at my school. Actually Kelsi did it all! She's the best. I have been wanting to do this since school started, there is just too many funny and interesting things that happen each day.

We have K through 6 grade and about 1,100 students. With this many students there is never a dull moment with forgotten lunches, homework, sickness and scraped knees and elbows.

Just for your information we only have a nurse on WEDNESDAYS!!!!!!! (My favorite day of the week because I swing my arm, point to the nurse's office and say, "Head on Back!")