Monday morning dawned dark and early. Thanks to the time change, there was no gorgeous sunrise peeking through my window like I’ve gotten used to. Mallory has teacher observations this week and since we are sharing a bathroom with her right now, I had to get up a little earlier than usual, too.
Breakfast. Waffles for Kyndall, cereal for Justin and Libby. Jase and I munched on a breakfast bar as I was getting ready.
On Monday, Jase stays with Justin’s parents, so we all loaded up in the Tahoe to make the drive to their house and school.
#BackseatSelfie.
First thing at school, I dealt with some new books. We are very lucky at my school in that we have super successful book fairs, so I am able to purchase new books quite regularly.
I have a little break on Monday, so I usually save any copying I have to do for then. Today’s copies were for the spring book fair, and since I see K-4, that’s well over 1000 copies. A large part of my day was spent running back and forth between the library and the workroom.
A few weeks ago, we celebrated Dr. Seuss week. Our theme was superhero’s, so our reading coach and I had every student write out why they thought their teacher was a superhero. They could choose to do an additional paper for an “extra” teacher, and I got a few.
Some of the reasons my students think I am a superhero?
- I’m an awesome reader.
- I let them borrow books.
- I help all students find books they love.
- I always help them when they need it.
- I take care of them and am awesome. <–Their words, not mine 🙂
I’m trying so hard to drink more water. It helps that I have a cute cup with my initials, custom ordered from the Southern Raised Gypsy Etsy shop.
Around 3:00, we picked up Jase and headed for home. We spent a few minutes just relaxing outside while the girls finished their homework.
And letting Jase hang out with Taco. He absolutely loves it when Taco makes his bray sound.
Once all the homework was finished and packed up for the next day, we went walking through the pasture to check on the baby cows. There was a new baby born last night and the girls couldn’t wait to see it! Of course, we didn’t get a great picture– mama cows don’t much like a whole gaggle of humans checking out their baby.
Spur of the moment, we decided to run. (I used to be a running-addict, but it’s been two whole years since I have run any distance at all.) Mallory, Hannah and I did one entire mile without stopping in under ten minutes…..it was something like 9 minutes, 35 seconds. 
Remember yesterday, when Kyndall had her legs taken out from under her by Bella? That happened again, only this time it was Hannah and Max. I know it hurt. I know it did. But if we had been videoing this crash, we would win America’s Funniest. Seriously.
Dinner was lasagna. Bath time happened again tonight because we had mud/cow manure all over the backs of our legs. Nice, right? (Bath time usually only happens every other night around here–is that gross?) We got the girls all tucked into their fort-beds and then Justin and I (and a sleeping Jase, because he is rotten and can’t be laid down without me there!) piled up on the couch to watch Blindspot.
#CrazyEyes.
Things to know:
- All photos were taken with my iphone again (because not only is my Canon in need of a major upgrade, but the battery is dead and I can’t find my charger!) and edited with PicMonkey.
- Papa had us searching every corner of the 400 acre farm for a lemon tree. I think it was a wild goose chase just to see how far we would go. HE was on the four-wheeler, so HE wasn’t tired at all 🙂
- Max has adapted quite well to farm-life, but he hasn’t figured out that he can go under the gates. If you close the gate, he will sit down and whine until you return. It is the funniest thing!
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