I’m excited, nervous & happy all at the same time.

This week is our prep week before preschool starts. My co-teacher & I are getting our classroom ready for a great year. I had a 30 yr. vetran tell me that she gets nervous every year & doesn’t sleep the night before. Great! Just what I needed to hear; that my feelings are normal like [...]

Zip-a-dee doo-da, Zipity-aye!

Today is the first day of school! WOOT!
I’m sorry did you want me to be sad & cry? Ok, maybe I had a little bit of “sadz”, but that was only a fleeting moment. Little Monkeyman & I weren’t too sure what to do with ourselves today. We ran a couple of quick errands & [...]

Breaking Dawn – the end to the Twilight Saga

I found out about Twilight through Facebook (don’t laugh too hard) & was curious about it. I bought it & started reading. Holy Moley did I read it! I finished it within 24 hours (a special feat for me because I’ve got kids). I ran out and bought the 2nd book, New Moon, finished that [...]

One more day until school starts (or How I survived summer with three children)

Well, I declare! butter my butt & call me biscuit: summer officially ends tonight at bedtime for two out of three of my little monkeys.
Yep! I survived the summer with three kids running amok on a VERY limited budget. I wasn’t able to work: how do you ask an employer to let you come in [...]