Phew...Almost There

So after spending almost all week at the school all day I can honestly say that I have almost completed my Masters Program Portfolio. being the slacker that I am, and having put it off since last September, I decided that it was by far time to get my butt in gear on those. I was able to complete all 5 assignments over the past 4 days. I must say, it would have been much nicer to complete those when I had completed the project, NOT all at once. Oh well, that is in the past, and BOY am I glad about that!

It has also been nice to visit with all the teachers again. I enjoy just sitting and chatting. It is nice to have a group that you can do that with! :)

Tomorrow is go in and complete all the last minute details (like hope you will FINALLY have the FINAL list, but know that you won't- GRRRRR!) to ensure that everything will be as smooth as possible on Tuesday (First day of school). Right now I have 20 students. That is three more than I had planned for, but I am excited to have them all! We are going to have a year of adventure! YEA!

Well, I am heading over to a friend house for the evening with the kids. Our wives are at Ladies Night (aka BUNKO). I am looking forward to visiting with my friend. I don't see him much any more!

Later...

Thursday + Friday = 3(Saturday)

See, I am good at math! I like the title equation. It means that I get 3 Saturdays this week. What more could you ask for?

I had a fantastic day. It started with tutoring (We did math today and it went fairly well), which moved straight into cleaning up the garden. What a relief that was. I guess I still need to work on the whole "taking pictures and adding them to my posts" thing. After we hauled off all the garden material we went up to my parents and we took out all of their tomato plants for them. As a reward for the kids helping, we took them to out to eat. We tried burger king, but a tour bus of Asians had just beat us in so we decided to try somewhere else. We ended up at Arby's. It as pretty good. Then we came home and finished the yard. The wife and kids cleaned up all the toys (threw out all the broken ones/unsafe ones) and winterized the backyard. I, meanwhile, was using the blower and cleaning up the front yard.

This all lead to us deciding to clean the car. So we went down to the local car wash and used their vacuum since it would suck up all the big garbage. It was nice to finally clean "Bessy" (that's the name I have given our van). She got new floor mats and a new storage bin for the kids to put all their coloring books, reading books, etc. in.

Next came a voice lesson. She was fun today. Since she is a/the lead in the musical, we worked on School House Rocks songs. One of the best parts about all this is that I will be able to keep the CD and music. So I can start teaching my 6th graders the songs. They are really fun! A good friend stopped by again as well. Brent J. It is always fun to have him come over. He loves our kids and plays well with them. What a blessing to our family he is.

My wife had BUNKO tonight, so she went to that around 6pm. I watched TV with the kids and made dinner.

That's about been the day. It has been wonderful to get lots of the little odd job things done we have been putting off. I hope to make it to the school tomorrow and get the same thing done there.

Anyhow, I still things I would like to get done. So,

Later...