It is what it is

Today is March 16th.  Last math class today.  LOVE the classes.   First of all I am out of school and have no kids for a day.   Secondly we have an awesome day learning new things to share with our students.   Third, we have clean, stocked bathrooms and a wonderful lunch.   I love math class.  This month has been unreal.  Started with three days of "snow days" with a boil water alert and no school. thought it was appropriate that we had no winter break but the water happened and gave us the break we have always had. Last week we lost power on Wednesday at 11:30 am.  Otto took the day off to get an oil change, go to the dentist and various other items.  Thank God he was home!   A tree fell on the wires and a live wire was in the neighbor's yard.  When he went out the neighbor (who is limited English) was out there with a hose spraying the live wire and grass fires.   A nearby shed burned from the wire and we were without ...

What a month this has been.   It is September 30th and 4 weeks of school are over already.  It is what it is and I am way too busy to make it anything else!  Missing summer!

Poor Lucy was so distraught with all the storms last night. She would not leave my side. Then in the middle of the night she was whining and barking. Otto went to check on her to make sure she was ok. She managed to knock the gate down and was sleeping in the living room when he got up this morning. Probably felt closer to us. Surprised she didn't head upstairs and jump in bed!!! For those of us that live by similes and metaphors, March truly came in like a roaring lion. We had some real boomers last night! Just as I was putting the cap on my mascara, my phone rang (and only 5 minutes ago I had walked back to the bedroom to get my phone off the nightstand as when I picked it up to put in my pocket at 6:15, the charging cord had not been attached so it was not fully charged. I connected it and left it to charge until about 7:00 and was just going to get it) and one of my co-workers was calling to say school was cancelled due to a water problem in the city. Well of cou...