Okay…I have brain drain!

I keep looking at my blog thinking I need to write something…but I can’t think of a thing! I must have a brain drain!!
I can’t complain about my class…they are one of the best group of students I have every taught…love them.
I have always said when a class like this comes along I should retire…hmmmm I am thinking about retiring.
I can’t complain about life, it has been good. I am just waiting for the other shoe to fall.
I certainly can’t complain about my husband, he has been working overtime to paint kitchen, living room and now south guest room. He will then rip up old carpeting and wait for the new carpet to be installed.
I would complain about the school financing but even the mention of it makes me very depressed…cut here, cut there…soon there will be nothing left to cut. It never amazes me how well we can teach with little or nothing.

So yup that is the sum of it, I must have a brain drain!
Around

and around

and around

it goes,

then down

the

drain, brain!

Wow, It’s October 18th and the same post applies!

You read that right…three weeks after the last post, I am still sick! I don’t know if I became better and then became sick again or I was never really over “the sickness”…either way I want to feel better…and soon.

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband…he has to be wonderful to put up with me for 39 years…lol

Good thing for pictures…

Robert and Gloria October 17, 1970

I’m Sick!

Yup, scratchy throat, watery eyes, hoarse voice, runny nose…it’s official I am sick.

It started Wednesday afternoon. I thought I had just talked too much during the day, I ignored the sore throat.  I called the jury hot line, I was to report the next morning at 8:00 am to do my “civic duty”, as one of my cousins called it. I was really trying to ignore the uneasy feeling as I put plans into place for the next day and was able to sleep the whole night, I used a sore throat lozenge.

Thursday morning my throat was still a little sore, but now I had that little nagging, tickle cough. I proceeded to report for jury duty, sit for two and half hours, listen to a speech on the importance of serving and watch a dvd on court proceedings only to be dismissed for the day because the trial jury I was to serve on was settled out of court. Since I didn’t feel good anyway I did the smart thing and asked to take the rest of the day as a sick day. I slept the whole afternoon, ate soup for supper and slept all night. I decided I could make it through Friday at school, that was a mistake.

I arrived home on Friday, only to think, I wish I would have stayed in bed all day I still felt horrible.

After doing nothing all day today, I do feel a little better I hope tomorrow will see a big improvement. I have kept track and I am not running a fever so no it is not H1N1.

With that said I am hoping whatever it is goes away as fast as it came. As one of former students told me…chicken soup, plenty of fluids, some Tylenol, a squirt of NyQuil and lots of rest…I liked that advice so much I have been following it and it seems to be working. Thanks Barbie, because I would like to say I am NOT sick!

Happy Birthday!

Helen's 89th Birthday

Nadine's 90th Birthday

I am very blessed to have my mother (Helen) who turned 89 today and my mother-in-law (Nadine) who turned 90 today September 15th in my life. The two of them have been wonderful role models.

This past weekend both families joined together to celebrate their birthdays…how tiring and how special this was for me. Who knew when I married my husband  that my mother and his mother shared the same birth date.  Thirty-nine years later we are celebrating two very special birthdays. I would love to say this time next year we would be celebrating another birthday…but as each year passes I sense that this might not be the case. For now I am very happy to spend the time I have left, enjoying every minute.

Homeroom Name!

Homeroom voted today for a team name…”Rock ‘N Robbins”
Way to go to my homeroom, what a cool name for our S.O.A.R. team!! Here’s to a great year
Have a great weekend in store, can’t wait for Sunday celebrations with family.

40 First Days!!

Every year of school, presents a first day…I had 16 of those, K – College. Now add that to 40 years of teaching…WOW!! 56  total first days of school…

I am just as excited today, as I was my first!

I’m ready, are you?

Yes, I’m ready to go camping…had everything in camper last night!! We are leaving  later.

Yes, I am ready for school! I’ve worked on that since…hummmmmmmmm the last day of school…only kidding. I took a class about online teaching-June, rearranged and cleaned files most of July, August 10th I started in my classroom: cleaned and sorted shelves, unpacked and put away new/old supplies, new posters up, book projects out for display, project boxes restocked, desks rearranged for new seating chart, ran information sheets, class rules, found the top of my desk again, wrote lesson plans for the first three weeks of school, (short range goals) looked at long range goals, attended training on “power school” for new grading system (which by the way still is not working on our classroom computers, as of last night), attended two days of professional development, did “a lot” of talking with old friends and attended one informational parent meeting.  Despite all that my classroom is ready, agendas are laid on desks, pencils are sharpened, my plans are ready, yes I am ready.

Yes I am ready. As my mother passes through her latest phase of illness I am beginning to realize what precious time we have left together. She will be 89 Sept 15, with that said…yes I am ready, menu is planned I have invited all the children, grandchildren and great grand children, placed the announcement in the paper for Sept 13th, I included Nadine (my mother-in-law) too in the announcement since it is her 90th birthday the same day! The Robbins will be getting together in Dimondale later that same day…busy, busy, busy!! But I am ready…I even have the birthday cards bought. Oh snap! Presents…hmmmmmmmmmm any suggestions…I guess I am not as ready as I thought.

Where is my list???

Oh NO!!

Oh no, where did the summer go??

Didn’t I just clean up my room and run for the door.  Now I am thinking, only 19 days to go until the first day of my 40th year of teaching!!

It doesn’t seem possible, I have been fishing a couple of times, three to be exact and we took a short trip to South Carolina, July 4th, (memo to self, July is not a good time to visit South Carolina…HOT!!) but other than that I have been spending as much time with my mother as I can.

It just doesn’t seem like I should be going back to school. Maybe I have been caught in a time warp, do you think? I know, summer has gone so quickly because Michigan decided to take a break from the warm weather this year, it decided to get hot about two weeks ago, now that school is about to begin (memo to self, buy another fan!!)

Maybe I can find winter in a few weeks. I am sure winter will be here before we know it…Oh NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Summer

Is it really summer?  The seventh coldest July since they started keeping records 1860! Wow.

I hope all my friends and relatives are living well and laughing long.

Soon it will be time for me to go back to work…:)  I may have more to say.

Congrats Lady Aggie Softball!!

Congratulations to Mick Ream and the Dansville High School softball team. By winning today, they are one of the top four teams (in Division 4) in the state of Michigan. This team has believed all season that they were capable of doing great things if they worked together. Way to go ladies.

“Dansville is the best school, Dansville is the tops…”  sing loud and sing proud!! Wishing them all the best and continued success.