Still a Seattle Girl

Boeing Workers Rejoice At Victory Rally







EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing workers and the members of Congress who worked for years trying to win the Air Force tanker contract gathered for what they called a "victory rally” on Friday.




While I was on the treadmill early Saturday morning I heard this news and I pumped my fist and said yes! I am still a Seattle girl I guess because this news made me happy. Because I have lived in Washington most of my life I know that when Boeing is doing good so is the state.

Guess where Jake is?

Follow the GWC Indoor Track and Field Championships Via live webcast


Feb. 26, 2011


BRONX, N.Y. -- Watch the GWC Indoor Track and Field Championships live via webcast Cast (go to Utah Valley University)

The meet kicks off Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. (MT) at The Armory -- the home of the Track and Field Hall of Fame -- with the first event of the hepthalon. The meet will conclude on Monday with the first events beginning at 8 a.m.

****Jake ran his 400 and qualified to run tomorrow. We don't know how fast he ran but we know it was faster than 50.8

Thanks to the Internet I got to see him run the 200. The camera was focused on him as he was warming up and in his blocks and as he ran!!!! (It was joyful and I cried!)

Staple in my boot

A 2nd grade boy came into the office and said I have a staple in my foot. He was wearing black rubber boots with the red strip around the top. I sent him into the nurses office and said Karen, If you take this one I will give you a dollar. I have a very queasy stomach and it was rising up just thinking about looking at his foot coming out of a rubber boot.

She went in and looked at his foot, came out and said Michelle you owe me 2 dollars, his foot was the dirtiest I have ever seen and he was not wearing any socks. I asked if he had a staple in his foot and she said yes one was in his boot but he dropped it in there on purpose to see if it would go into his foot.

That's what we deal with people!

Carl Bloch's exhibit at BYU

We took advantage of my parents visiting here from Spokane Wa to take a family trip to see the art exhibit at BYU showcasing Carl Bloch.





It was something I have never seen before and it was amazing. Upon entering the exhibit you stand in a room and watch a video telling about Carl Bloch's life and from that very moment you know he was someone special with an amazing talent.

While I read about him this struck me: He came from the prosperous middle class. I wonder what that was like back in the 1800's in Denmark. I thought about me now and wanting to be part of the prosperous middle class. How hard we have to work to have that and to be that.

As we walked around the exhibit and viewed his paintings we saw firsthand how great his talent was. The Church owns one of his paintings and 11 etchings. They gathered more of his paintings from churches in Denmark and Sweden to show here at BYU and it took them 9 years to get this together. I was astounded at the size of his paintings.

It was a great experience and I wrote this down off the sidecards next to his paintings. They tell more about the paintings and what to look at.

He said "God helps me.....that's what I think and then I am calm!"

This was said about him, "He dipped his paint brush in his heart."

Today it was real windy all day but it has gotten worse as the day progressed. A volunteer came into our school around 12:30 and signed in and told us that she saw the cutest thing on the way to come to our school.

A little kindergartner was walking to his bus stop and it was so windy that he was wearing ski goggles.

She smiled as she told us and she said I just like kids and what cute things they do. She said even now when I think about him walking with those goggles on I smile.

I have smiled all day as I thought of him wearing ski goggles walking maybe squishing his nose a little as he walked to the bus stop in the wind and I have a child who would have done the very thing with a big smile on his face!

Today "takes the cake"

What does that even mean? Takes the cake?

That is what I thought about today as I was walking home from school. Today takes the cake, it just formed in my head. It was a totally different day.

As my blog readers know we at school made a spread sheet and we have columns and a line for a name and a place to check why the student is in the office.
Every night before I go home I total the number of students we have helped and write it on there, file it away in the binder and put out another sheet for the new day.

Today I was astounded to see that we had helped 49 children...one away from 50....and it felt like it! I got yelled at 3 times on phone calls.

Remember this year I am not making the decision if the student is sick, I call each and every time and let the parent make the decision. If the parent thinks the student is faking let them talk it out with the student over dinner. If the parent is sick of coming to get the student and taking them home to have them not be sick let them figure it out. I will not do it this year. I will call a parent and offer Tylenol. You can talk to your student, I will let you. Provided that your student can follow directions and will go to the phone and answer it when it is ringing. I had one today just stand and look at me blankly as the phone was ringing and then I said go and get it that's your mom. He looked at me dumbfounded..... well it stopped ringing and then I have to call them back, then he tried to push the door open to leave and it's a pull door. He came back to us an hour later and did the same thing to the door and he was not young!

We filled one sheet and had to start another. We had it all today....splinter, bloody noses, yes more than one, stomach aches, headaches, wet pants, door knobs in eyes, suspected fevers, ringworm and 2 cases of pink eye, stomach aches, stomach aches and more stomach aches. I heard one boy tell his mom that he ate too much candy yesterday and now his tummy hurt.

A little 2nd grader had a spacer in his teeth for braces. It hurt so I gave him Tylenol and he talked to his mom. She told me that there was nothing we could do. He came back later and said it still hurt, he had his whole hand in his mouth and was pulling. I said, "Stop and you are going home in 15 min just make sure you tell your mom." His mom came when school had only 5 minutes left. He had gone back into his class and pulled it out and it was bleeding. She thought he called from the office and was surprised that he was not there. I told her that he had been down and I told him to stop trying to pull it out. Well he succeeded in getting it out and there she was to get him. :(

This was a true Tuesday though because I looked back through the binder since we have been keeping track and Tuesdays are our biggest days. I don't know why. Early out Mondays they get to leave early and then Tuesday hits, "Wham, I don't want to be here." "Mom, come and get me."

To satisfy my question I looked up what takes the cake means and it means that the idea suggested is the best one there. If something "takes the cake", that means that it is the best, the favorite, the coolest, the most elaborate, ect.
But it can also mean
1. To be the most outrageous or disappointing.
2. To win the prize; be outstanding.

Ok so that does not fulfill the definition there! Today was not the best, the favorite or anything like that! It could have been the most outrageous and it certainly won the prize.

Kindergarten Registration

Kindergarten registration was last week. It was from 8:00 to 2:00 during the day held in our front lobby. We pull the copier out there and have our school nurse there to look over the shot record. (No, the school nurse is not us!)

Lots of cute kids came and registered. We are enrolling students for our school and a new school that is being built in our town. The current count for the next years classes are Us: 70. Them : 39. They are projected to have only 537 students total.

This is the best question that was asked all day.......

Phone rings, Karen answers, Man asks Can I register my child over the phone? She says Well no the packet is 22 pages long, you have to come in and get it and fill it out.

Really? Sure let me just sit here and ask you questions and fill out your paperwork!

(Maybe he can't read!)