ha ha

okay so here's some ha ha from this week.....there's this one little guy in my class that is super obnoxiously nosy. he has to know everything and i mean EVERYTHING that is going on with someone else. like, "ms. avery, why did so and so have his card turned?" and other such curiosity's about other people in the world around them that if i didn't have a classroom of other kids to deal with, i would offer the info. as such, my stock response is, "Jayce, it's not your business is it?"

well, the other day, i was working with him and some others at our writing center. he had his hand raised to ask a question, but i was helping someone else at the time. he put his hand down, and i figured that was because he noticed i was busy. after a moment, i turned to him to see what he needed. he shook his head and said simply, "it's not my business."

i had to swallow a giggle, but in hindsight, while it's still pretty funny, i do feel a tiny bit guilty. 6/7 year olds!

anyway, i have two weeks left and it's going to fly by and i'm really going to miss these kids. i'm not going to miss everything else, like all the hilarious kid drama that seems to perpetually mar each and every freaking day, BUT i will miss them. and i am learning a great deal about what it will be like to be a parent: drama will be a part of the number and i will just have to deal with it!!! laugh and take it in stride....maybe i should just count on it happening, that way, when it doesn't, it will be like a surprise vacation.....

awesome

it's been a pretty awesome week. nothing truly spectacular happened, but i got thru it with my little 1st grade gremlins. getting to work again, and enjoy them, has really done much to lift my spirits. there's more love in my heart and i can feel it. :) and i only have four weeks left! ;)

i'm also running 15 minutes now and my body isn't complaining. and, i'm closer to finishing off the first half of my horrendous research paper. also, another trip for my summer was born! hoooray!!! dawn has been wanting me to go stay with her in her other house that she has been fixing up out in leadville, colorado. she's been working on it for i think about two years now, and it's almost done....i've been dying to go, some little old mining town above 10,000 feet about 2 hours outside of denver AND her house looks so charming. it's an old victorian she and her husband bought and i just can't wait. it'll be beautiful up there this summer. she just loves living there and is very tired of san diego....so dan and she and maybe their teenage boys will be picking me up as they drive thru yucca on their way to colorado on june 26th. so we will just road trip it all the way out. should be totally fun. and then dawn will stay there all summer and the rest of us will fly out on july 7th. i found a cheap ticket home to palm springs from there, so i'm stoked. woo-hoo for trips!

mom and i need to buy our tickets to go be baby relief this summer too. the dates are firm now, so we'll be going about july 25th and coming back on august 1st? they are planning rachel's c-section for july 26th.....it will be wonderful to help out with taking care of the kids. i need to get that video of lane singing spiderman again. and, it'll be great to see pennsylvania in the summer. can't wait!

p.s. the new star trek movie was EXCELLANT.