another late night

Today was a topsy turvy day. It started when I had to cover third grade reading during my prep. Good news: friends got new to them furniture so they needed to get rid of their love seat and couch to make room. We are the happy recipients. I'm so excited. It actually goes well with our existing chairs, so it's amazing! We're working to keep the dog off of it. so It's covered with things when we aren't in the room.

I've been working on typing programs for the show this week. Still have more to do and I really want to just sleep!

Back to work!

I'm back

it's been forever and the main reason I kept up the blog was so that my mom could keep in touch with pictures of our life, but when she passed it seemed kind of pointless.

I've been Christmas crafting. Knitting and other things. The DD is a freshman at college (home for the holidays). I expect some growing pains on both sides over this break.

This next week will be crazy busy at school and home. Especially with all the things that need to be done in preparation for the holiday. It's like I'm cramming all of Advent into one week. We lost power today, so I started a craft that I could start in candlelight. I went into my messy craft room to find a star and stumbled on some jewelry wire which worked better than the hanger I was going to use to put the parts together. I decided to form a star out of the end at the top. It's for my secret Santa person at work (my boss). I think it turned out OK.  I'll leave a picture of the final product here:

so much since the last post.
Kids:
DD is 1st chair flute in her school concert band YAY... all those lessons are paying off. Her all-city chorus concert was tonight and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
DS1 and DS2 had great conferences today :) Both are playing baseball this spring.

Work:

Lived through my observation in a very positive way!

 2/3 grade concert was last Thursday.  Just a taste of the concert:
2nd grade
 3rd grade
It was dedicated to Music Makes Your Mind Grow... for music in our schools month!
The kids were terrific!!!!!

My chorus is singing the National Anthem at our local AAA division PHILLIES baseball affiliate  next Friday. WE can't wait. I designed T-shirts for them. SO EXCITED!!!!!!

Had the best time teaching 6th grade today.  (major, minor and dorian modes) The ideas kept coming the faster I taught. It was awesome. I'm going to make some manipulatives for class that I'll share when they're finished.

My friend and I did the SOAR award for 2 groups of winners today. It's always so much fun to do something with those kids that lets them have fun and be creative at the same time!

Little League keeps me hopping as player agent and trying to get the league moving in a forward growth direction. Fortunately, I have some very positive people on my side. I never would have guessed I'd be so involved a year ago.

The band parent president asked me to consider being an officer next year. I said ok... Am I nuts? But it's an incredible organization.

Knitting:
What's that?? I finished a baby blanket weeks ago that is still waiting to be blocked.... pictures after that happens (which I hope is before the baby is born!)

OK.... gotta do some school work! Night all

the snowman

so beautiful!

fake it til you become it

This is such a worthwhile 20 minutes.

Baby panda in DC

Yesterday the National Zoo had a baby panda born. How cute is that. The panda cam might be too busy but bookmark it and you can maybe see it later! On a musical note. My first chorus rehearsal was today. I hope they think I'm as crazy as I am. Trying to get them to really articulate those consonants. It's hard work! Knitting? what is that? Hopefully by October I'll be in a schedule where I have some time to do some crafts. Between this work thing and my kids life, I have none of my own. It's ok though, can't get in trouble that way!

how cool is this