Last week flew by.
No school on Monday was a pleasure!
Tuesday we discovered that pink eye is going around. Teachers were sending their kids down to get MY opinion if it looked like pink eye. I AM NOT A NURSE. I DON"T KNOW. I JUST PLAY ONE AT WORK! I was pretty sure one girls was, her eyes were puffy and so I asked, "Are your eyes itchy?" She answered, "Of course not!." Oh, well ok. Go back to class.
Wednesday the nurse was in. When I got to work I saw her working in her office and I ran in and hugged her. She has been on vacation for the past 2 weeks. As the kids came in that day I swung my arm towards her office and said gleefully, "The nurse is here today, head on back!"
Wednesday was a baby shower for one of our teachers. My crocheted booties would have been the hit of the shower but another lady crocheted a headband and matching booties to the cutest watermelon outfit and a pair of cowboy boots. Yes, here in Utah they crochet cowboy boots for little babies!
Thursday right at lunch time a boy who is familiar to me even so much that I know where his parents work without looking at the emergency sheet and had a headache. I called to see if I could give him non aspirin. His mom did not answer so I left a message and told him to check back. While I was working with him my co worker was helping a boy who did not have lunch money and could not charge anymore. This sweet boy who I was helping offered money to the boy so he could eat. I kindly said, "Honey, it won't be a loan but a gift. You may not get paid back. He said that was ok. Isn't that just the sweetest!
On Friday I was amazing to myself! Our resource teacher brought a boy in who was just scratching like crazy first his neck, then his arms and then his back and then his neck, etc. She said he has a peanut allergy but has not been around nuts but look at him. I watched him for a minute and he had that shallow cough that I recognize as an asthma attack. I sat him by me on the special, purple chair and asked him some questions. He said no to everything I asked. I got him a cup of water and had him breathe in through his nose slowly and out his mouth slowly still wondering what he got into. I wondered if his mom changed their laundry soap and he had had PE. He was just so itchy. I called his mom and guess what she said? "Shoot he must be allergic to the cat." I was so happy that I called that one right . It was an allergy reaction. Ha and I am not a nurse!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Jake Jumps for UVU (and runs)
Jake has participated in 2 track meets for Utah Valley University.
It has brought me such joy to be able to see him.
You see we moved away from Washington when Colby was a freshman at Central Washington University and except for when he comes to Boise Idaho in February each year I have not been able to see him compete.
To see Jake with college kids running and jumping in their uniforms and team sweats just makes my heart melt. It was a bonus to have his first meet at BYU and see young husbands and wives with a small child and one on the way just so happy being there and being a family. After the high jump got over they let their kids play around on the big mats. I had fun just sitting there watching those cute kids.
Last weekend he traveled to Pocatello, ran, jumped and even had time for a Jack in the Box meal. (He misses that place.)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was fun. Even at this age they were trying to convince us to let them open just one present and then them all and I said, "but we open Christmas presents on Christmas" and they said, "let's change the tradition" and I said, "then you would just keep moving it up and moving it up and one day we would be opening presents on July 4th!"It was fun to have us all together.
Vomit
The very next day I went into the school at the start of my shift and I come in down by the gym door. There on the floor right outside the gym door was a pile of vomit on the floor. I said out loud as I walked in and saw it, "Oh my, there is throw-up on the floor." Me walking step, step step. Boy lying on floor, "And you must be the person who threw up."
He was as white as a ghost.
I helped him up, took him to nurses room, got an orange cone and took it back to the throw up, found a janitor and then came in and took off my coat.
Hello new day!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
"Shitty Day"
I got to work today and the office smelled like poop.
Yes, sure enough a boy standing in the nurses office, messed his pants.
Two other poop issues during the day.
End of Track A a boy comes in and says there is a pair of poopy underwear on the boy's bathroom floor.
I go and get the janitor to get them and clean it up. (Then we wonder...who is going commando?)
Yes, sure enough a boy standing in the nurses office, messed his pants.
Two other poop issues during the day.
End of Track A a boy comes in and says there is a pair of poopy underwear on the boy's bathroom floor.
I go and get the janitor to get them and clean it up. (Then we wonder...who is going commando?)
Tears in her Eyes
Our ALL teacher who teaches the talented and gifted students for 6th grade, (they don't call them that anymore but you all sure know who I am talking about when I say that!), came in today to tell me a story. With tears in her eyes she told me this story about one of her students:
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Her story was that she asked them to do a math assignment about exponents. A boy forgot what one was and looked at a neighbors paper.
He then came up to her and with tears in his eyes he "confessed".
She said it was really tender.
My story was that yesterday 3 brothers who were new students got off at the wrong bus stop. They could not find their house and walked through a rural area without houses and down a path and over a bridge. They found the church building and then got their bearings. Finally they got home and burst in the door and the mom was not all concerned because it was "early out Monday" and she had forgot and was not even expecting them yet. They told her that when they were lost they stopped and knelt and prayed.
The 6th grade ALL teacher loved that story too and left with tears in her eyes.
PS I gave the bus driver their names and addressee's. He said that they could not recognize which stop was theirs and he drove them up and down the street. Finally he said they acted like they knew and they got off. Today they got off at the right stop.
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Her story was that she asked them to do a math assignment about exponents. A boy forgot what one was and looked at a neighbors paper.
He then came up to her and with tears in his eyes he "confessed".
She said it was really tender.
My story was that yesterday 3 brothers who were new students got off at the wrong bus stop. They could not find their house and walked through a rural area without houses and down a path and over a bridge. They found the church building and then got their bearings. Finally they got home and burst in the door and the mom was not all concerned because it was "early out Monday" and she had forgot and was not even expecting them yet. They told her that when they were lost they stopped and knelt and prayed.
The 6th grade ALL teacher loved that story too and left with tears in her eyes.
PS I gave the bus driver their names and addressee's. He said that they could not recognize which stop was theirs and he drove them up and down the street. Finally he said they acted like they knew and they got off. Today they got off at the right stop.
18 years
We have a new worker helping with recess and 2 hours of aide time.
Yesterday was her first day. She was supposed to leave but got busy and stayed later.
I enrolled 11 new students yesterday. Near the end of the day I was entering a student in the computer and his mother came in. I said, "Oh look, I am just putting your child in the computer." (Frankly I am surprised I remembered her!) The new student, her child, was supposed to wait at the school, it was his first day but he was not out front. She wondered if he rode the bus home, so I went into the media center where the teachers were meeting to ask his teacher if he rode the bus and he had.
Meantime our new employee was leaving and filling out her time card and guess what? They knew other but it had been since 1992 since they have seen each other.
They had lived by each other in Provo back in 1992 and had been walking partners. They stood there and caught up on each others lives and exchanged phone numbers. They both live in the Saratoga Springs neighborhood and are both new to the area. They live in different wards so it might have been awhile or never until their paths crossed. One said to the other, "Here I'll walk you out" and the other said, "OK, I have to get my coat."
I listened to their conversation a little as I worked there, putting new students in the computer and then thought about it after they left and really it was amazing....18 years!
And if she had not stayed later.....
Yesterday was her first day. She was supposed to leave but got busy and stayed later.
I enrolled 11 new students yesterday. Near the end of the day I was entering a student in the computer and his mother came in. I said, "Oh look, I am just putting your child in the computer." (Frankly I am surprised I remembered her!) The new student, her child, was supposed to wait at the school, it was his first day but he was not out front. She wondered if he rode the bus home, so I went into the media center where the teachers were meeting to ask his teacher if he rode the bus and he had.
Meantime our new employee was leaving and filling out her time card and guess what? They knew other but it had been since 1992 since they have seen each other.
They had lived by each other in Provo back in 1992 and had been walking partners. They stood there and caught up on each others lives and exchanged phone numbers. They both live in the Saratoga Springs neighborhood and are both new to the area. They live in different wards so it might have been awhile or never until their paths crossed. One said to the other, "Here I'll walk you out" and the other said, "OK, I have to get my coat."
I listened to their conversation a little as I worked there, putting new students in the computer and then thought about it after they left and really it was amazing....18 years!
And if she had not stayed later.....
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