Our own Dr. Seuss Poem

If you would have told me 2 years ago that I would be standing at work wearing a shark hat at school by choice I never would have believed you!

I will not eat them

with a Shark!

I will not eat them

in the Dark!

I will not eat them

here or There!

I will only eat them

in my Chair!

Dr. Seuss's birthday at a school can only mean one thing!

Crazy things are happening.

Kindergartners made green eggs and ham on Monday, they all wore crazy socks yesterday and had a hat day today.

Teachers today wore Dr. Seuss hats and T shirts.

The librarian wore a complete Cat-in-the-Hat outfit and they are playing Seuss Bingo every library session with each class this week.

Oh what a delightful week to work at a school.

A man called to excuse his 2 children from school today.

He said, "My daughter is sick."

And then he said the funniest thing.......

"And I am excusing my son and he is a Low Down Dirty Faker!"

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!