I cannot for the life of me recall what goal Mallory's 1st graders accomplished, but she had to dress up as a "glam-ma" because of it. I am just going to throw my 2 cents worth into this. You know - because it is my blog and stuff. There seems to be a lot of hate thrown at public schools, and specifically at public school teachers lately. The president of the country, in my view has lowered the bar so low for human decency that the bar is laying on the ground. So, this week, when he put out a tweet saying that "spending millions on educators, many of whom are ugly", and that the department of education is 'horrible' and whatever other nonsense he spews, I again rolled my eyes. Anyone who has not set foot in a public school ought to not comment on it. Period. Anyone who has not seen or met my daughter, ought to shut their mouths about her work. Period. These teachers, these PEOPLE are superheroes. They deal with hard things because their hands are tied by bureaucracy, and yet they are still educating children. I cannot tell you the number of times my daughter has been here crying because of things people have said to her, or about a child who was taken away and she can't really talk about it, but she is worried about what will happen to them. About how many weekends she has showed up at my house needing help to cut out any number of projects she is trying to create so that she can help her students be successful. The number of hours she has put into classes to make herself a better educator. The seriousness she has towards helping every single child achieve success. She is underpaid for the amount of work she puts in, she is underappreciated for the things she does. The American public is unbelievably lucky to have the benefit of free public education for every single kid regardless of ethnicity, class status, gender, race, or anything else. To say that there aren't problems would be wrong. To say you can't improve it - would be wrong. But to just yank the rug out from under people, and to call them names and degrade them - makes me see red. And then to think it came from a bunch of oligarch jerks makes it even worse. This country is unrecognizable to me - definitely not a place that I am proud to live in right now. My daughter - she will be fine. We will make sure she is fine. I can't say what will happen to schools, but I am incredibly angry and also just sad. Ok sorry - rant over.
Madison sent me this proof from Evie's kindergarten photos. The attitude is so Evelyn - she is a trip! I love this kid! So funny!
Madison also sent me this old photo of Colin and Cameron in their matching mohawks and matching WWE vests that Auntie Grace made for them. It was a good laugh and good memories - my boys always with their "guy stuff" and crazy hair. I miss them being little. Yes, they are good adults and I like the people they grew into, but raising boys is not for the weak, and I miss the chaos! Colin has been remodeling their bathroom. I am impressed with the work he has learned to do. I am also impressed with the mirror that he sent me a photo of - Spencer installed it with a back light that is motion sensored He was pretty impressed with her skill as well. They decided to tackle the project together since they got an estimate and nearly choked on the price. I am convinced that those 2 can learn to do anything. It is impressive. We are supposed to go down this weekend, I hope the weather cooperates with us. I can't wait to see the work in person!
Today is a snow day. School was cancelled due to the forecast yesterday - which is unusual, usually they wait until I have a shower and the bus warming up before they call it! I don't think it is as bad as they predicted, but it is really cold, and we probably have 3-4 inches of snow. I had a meeting last night, and I stayed and worked afterwards so I could take today off. I brought home a few projects, and have been making a few phone calls from inside my house in my pajamas. I do love a snow day, the girls and I are chilling out, we got chores done and I am planning to make a pot of chicken and dumplings and cinnamon rolls this afternoon. The problem is I want just 1 day. As in, tomorrow, I want the sun out, the snow gone and life to be back to a normal place where we go to work and don't have the extra junk to deal with. Basically, I want the impossible. The girls were already off school tomorrow and Friday. It is parent teacher week. They have moved conferences to remote - and we are officially home with zero places to go. Jim did go to work this morning. He took the Nissan since it has 4wd. He said he made it in just fine, with no real problems. He has city council tonight, so skipping was not really in the cards for him.
I am sure I could have gone in with Jim and would have been fine - but I sometimes really just enjoy a day with the dogs! Oh and the girls! :) Saige got up a little bit under the weather, but I think she just has the same cold or that everyone else in the state has right now.
Carlos hates the cold. He is the biggest cold wimp! He is my spirit animal! I don't even have the heart to make him go out when we do chores. He goes out for about 3 minutes at a time and then we let him come back inside. Poor little cold boy. He does look cute in his sweater though!
I started this post a couple days ago and never got it done. The girls came over for a super bowl party. When I say for the super bowl, I want to make it clear that whereas Poppy, Saige and Andrew were actually watching the game, and a few others were watching for the commercials, and Harper refused to even leave the basement, some us were just in it for the snacks! :) When I say some of us - I mean me - and the grandkids. We love snacks for dinner!
I had to work at the liquor store for a while before the game. It was insane in there! At one point, I had a bunch of customers, and a sack split and the customer dropped a bottle of red wine. In a store full of stuff that could break, this one is the absolute worst! Red wine is sticky, smelly, and stains the floor! One of the owners came over to bring me more paper towels, and helped me get the mess cleaned up. Not the best timing for sure! I was thankful that when I came home, Madison and Mallory had mostly finished getting everything ready. It was nice to kick off my shoes and just relax and hang out with my little buddies. So I guess you can see my theme of the week - staying home and relaxing. Not the worst thing I ever thought about doing.
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