What's My Deal?!

Assorted ramblings from a Christian wife, mother and public school teacher.

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I am a Christian, I am a wife and mother and am a public middle school teacher of math and gifted education. My Blog, "What's My Deal?" is just day to day ramblings. My other Blog, "All About the Fish" is more like a personal webpage about my Christian experiences.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Madam I'm Adam


Okay, Here's My Deal...
In math and language, there is a thing called a palindrome. An example is the title of this entry. It is something that is the same when read forwards or backwards. A number example is 41214--which happened to be the last palindrome mileage that our van read this morning. Anyway, my fried in Ohio can attest to the fact that I think it is sort of cool to see that kind of number on the odometer (it's just the math geek in me) because she is the same way (it's just the science geek in her). Well, I have recently explained to my husband what a palindrome is and, gee, now he actually looks for them, too, while we are driving!! Tonight when we picked up the boys from the sitter, the odometer read 41216 and he actually went, "Aww, we missed it!" I just thought it was a sweet sort of thing (in an admitedly geeky sort of way) for him to notice. I joked and said, "I am so proud I cold cry," then sniffed. I like ot think he does the same things when I say something or notice something that relates to flying. Hey, you don't know us, so back off--don't look at me in that tone of voice!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Oh, My

Okay, Here's My Deal...
Today, we had to make an unexpected roadtrip about 2 1/2 hours north. While we were on the road, we saw many rafters of turkeys (I did not make this up...google animal groups and you will find that a group of turkeys is called a rafter...seriously) out in the snow covered fields. We also saw many many hawks, one bald eagle, three pheasants (they could have been a brood...which is a family of pheasants...seriously) and about 5 deer in a field.
I guess that is not so exciting, but I thought it was just strange that we saw such an ecclectic assortment of critters all in one day.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Good (Valen)Times


Okay, Here's My Deal...
Let me just say that my husband and I are not your stereotypical romantic couple. That is not to say we don't have any romance, because we do. It has evolved over the years and looks a little different, but it is still there.
I have also never really been your I-have-to-have-flowers-and-chocolates-and-dinner-on-Valentine's-Day kind of woman. I tell my husband that if he wants to buy me flowers, NOT to buy roses. I would rather have a huge bunch of carnations because they last for so much longer.
One year, we totally forgot it was VDay and we were short on cash, so we went to Burger King. One year, on our anniversary, we were at Wal-Mart and we picked out cards and read them to each other right there in the store and didn't buy them.
This is just how we are.
Well, this year proved to start out strange, even for us. We spent 3 hours in the emergency room at our hospital. To make a long story short, I found out I have gallstones and might have to have surgery. When we left, we ate at Burger King. (I had a salad...you know, to avoid the fat and grease b/c of the stones)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A New Name


Okay, Here's My Deal...
The penguin you see in the picture is made from vegetables. I thought it was a good picture for my story. There is an animated children's series called Veggietales that is Christian in nature and it features these vegetables in stories that teach moral lessons and encourage Biblical values. The stories are introduced by Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber, or as my almost 4 year old son calls him, Larry the Coomonger!! I just love that. That's all I got--a funny kid mispronounciation story. Not much going on right now in my house.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

One Honked-Off Baby


Okay, Here's My Deal...
We have reached the point where our youngest son, 9 months, LOVES the bathtub. Tonight he was in here with me and he heard my husband running water and he took off like a shot for the bathroom...he couldn't move fast enough!! When I picked him up just a foot or so from the tub so I could get his clothes off, he began to cry and cry and cry. Then, when he just had a diaper on I put him on the floor so I could gather a few toys for him and he cried so hard he didn't take a breath--those of you with kids know what I mean. You would have thought I had cut off his arm he was so honked off!! But he eventually got his bath and all was right with the world. Herei s his take on the matter:
nhb n bb n ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
knmgth
yhm m vh ;'
m nj ynn z

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Hard To Do


Okay, Here's My Deal...
We are supposed to get a bookoo amount of snow tonight and I thought it would be a good night to make soup. So, I go to the store and get an extra gallon of milk in case we get snowed in and stuff for a simple turkey noodle soup: a turkey breast tenderloin, frozen noodles, carrots, celery, broth.
I went home and vacuumed, put in a load of laundry and went to unload my stuff from the store befroe I went ot the dentist and found that it was going to be hard for me to make my turkey noodle soup because---I left the bag with the turkey and the noodles at the store!!!
So, after my appointment, I went back to the store, showed them my receipt and got replacements. What a dumba$$...which in this house is pronounced doo-mahs.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Eating Fool


Okay, Here's My Deal...
As I sit here, holding my 9 month old and listening to him gnaw on a piece Zweibeck toast, am excited to see him eating a lot of new things. He's had all of the yellow veggies of babyfood and most of the green. He has had some of the fruits, but doesn't seem too partial to any. He had had beef and gravy babyfood and liked that. He likes Cheerios and the fruit and veggie puffs that disolve in his mouth. He had spaghetti noodles, plain, the other day and some mashed potatoes w/o gravy from KFC. He has also had those biter biscuits.Not bad for only having two teeth fully in and one popping out of the surface and two more getting close!!

Literally


Okay, Here's My Deal...
This week I cam home from school early on Wednesday because I felt crappy, but before I left I wrote out lesson plans for the next day just in case I still felt bad. That way, I would not have to drag myself out of bed to go in the cold dark winter morning.
Well, I did end up staying home the next day but went back on Friday. My first class of kids told me things like the sub said they didn't have to do the assignment and they seemed like they had no idea what was going on. I just assumed it was a "Mrs. H is gone and we don't have to pay attention to the sub" thing and I was pretty crabby with them for making excuses and not being responsible students and told them they were much better than this.
I am what is called a traveling teacher...I have to go to different rooms to teach for some of my classes that are too big for my actual room/office. Well, after I chewed on the kids, the teacher whose room I use told me that ther actually was some confusion yesterday and that I might want to cut them a little slack. I asked why and she told me that the sub had come in and taped the piece of paper I had written notes on to the board and she told the other teacher, "I guess she wants the kids to come up and copy down the notes." The teacher said, "Or, you could use the markers and write the notes on the board for them since this is a big class."
See, I wrote in my instructions, "Please put these notes on the board and have the kids copy them." Well, that is exactly what she did...she literally 'put the notes on the board'...by taping the piece of paper onto the board!!!
I guess in the future I need to be more specific in my instructions.

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