HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mom!

Happy Birthday to my dear Mom!

Par-tay

Here a couple of photos from my birthday the other day. I eliminated added sugar from my diet about 9-10 months ago, so no cake! My family got creative...

Kristin, Heather, Heidi, Liz, and Leanne making my "cake."

The finished product. It was delicious!!! and my sister Julie said This is a great party because you can eat tons and not feel bad because it's all good for you!

Quickly

It's pretty late (way past my bedtime!) but I actually have something to share.
The students were trying to figure out how old I was. Here's a couple of quotes:

• "Miss H, you don't look a day over 35!!"
• "Is it your eighteenth birthday?!"
• "Well, you graduated from college three years ago, so you must be 23 or 24"
• "There's no way you're 29, so you must be 27!"
• "You're not in your thirties yet, so you must be in your twenties, but not older than 25..."
• "wait, don't move around so much. I'm trying to figure out how old you look."
• "If we guess it, will you tell us? 22? 23? 24? 25? 26? 27? 28? 29?" Me: "Yep!"

That's high school logic I guess.

I have great students. I've enjoyed them the past couple of days. For the most part. and I have to get to bed so I'll enjoy them tomorrow!

PS Kristin, I'll get the pictures up this weekend :)

I'm (day) dreaming of something tropical

Your Ideal Island Vacation is Fiji

On an island vacation, you prefer to get the full beach experience. And for you, that means staying somewhere with few people and lots of beach. With over 300 islands, you can find your own private spot in Fiji. Relax by the crystal clear water, or venture off to find a waterfall.

What's Your Ideal Island Vacation?

Heart

Yesterday I gave an update to my econ (senior) students - kind of the schedule for the week, because it's different than usual. (Usually it's vocab Monday, book game Wednesday, test day Friday and other various things in between)
After telling them, one of my students said "Whoa, you DO have a heart!!"

It made me smile.

And in that same class, I goofed up on something... and they caught it (not much gets past them). There must've been something in the air, because someone said "Way to go, Miss H!" and they started clapping.

Again, they made me smile.

Dreaming up Lesson Plans

Literally. I think of lesson plans in my sleep. I wake up in the morning and have great ideas for some of my classes... and I use those ideas and they work out great! It happened a couple of times last semester and now three or four times in the past couple of weeks.

What am I doing wasting my time working while I'm awake? :)

Winter/January Blues

Hope no one is getting the January blues! It's so cold out there and there hasn't been a whole lot of sun lately (that I've seen anyway)... so hope you're all handling it well. Keep yourself busy and stay warm!

This last week of school was one of my toughest. I'm not sure if it was just because I'm mentally exhausted, or Tuesday kind of threw everything out of whack, or I have a different schedule, or what. It felt like it was never going to end! I didn't have time to eat my lunch at lunchtime three of the days, so I ended up eating it during my prep hour at around 1:45. Maybe that added to it. and I had to leave school early a couple of the days for appointments so I didn't get as much work done as usual.......

But now it's Saturday, a whole glorious day to spend on non-school things.
Enjoy your weekend!

Did I tell you?

I'm going on vacation for my spring break with these ladies! We're heading to the big city (aka my favorite city, NYC, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps)for a long weekend... tickets: check. Hotel: check. Now we just have to wait until April 3rd!