State

Harrison's XC team is going to state today.  I'm so excited for him and everyone on the team.  He PR'd last week at semi-state with a time of 16:58, after getting slammed into a fence by a runner that he was trying to pass.   His leg is mostly healed and he is ready to go today.  North was not expected to go to state this year, so Coach Warthan told them to go out there and be competitive and enjoy the experience.

what I would like

I would like to be able to sleep at night.  That would be nice.  Instead, I'm reading blogs and other stupid stuff.  I did find some pretty cool teacher blogs and I'm in love with the teacher tipster guy.  He teaches first grade and he is hilarious.

I had a great time with my class today.  I just love this class.  We are piloting My Big Campus and they love it.  I'm finding new ways to use this technology every day.

app

I was finally able to buy an app on my iphone today.  I always get stuck on the security questions page.  It's funny because I picked the questions and answered them on-line and when I answer the questions on my phone, it always tells me that my answers are incorrect.  Normally, I just give up and decide that I don't need the stupid app anyway, but today was different.  I reset the questions five times and it finally let me in.  Anyway, I bought this app called picframe.  It lets me make collages with all the silly pictures that I take.  Like this one....

I went to the IU auditorium today and took some pictures of the Hoagy Carmichael statue for our Artful Learning unit.   It's really beautiful outside right now.  I love this time of year.  It sucks that I didn't have time to walk around campus.

Fall Break

Fall break hasn't been much of a break at all for me.  I spent most of the day grading papers, entering grades and cleaning up my classroom.   I also had to do concession stand duty at the football game tonight for Harrison's XC team.  I need a real break.  I wish we still had Thursday and Friday!

Harrison birthday is today.  I can't believe he's 16.  He'll be doing something that he loves though.  It's regionals for his XC team.  I hope he has a great run and gets a PR.  I was going to bring cupcakes for the team, but he told me no, because cupcakes are not healthy.  He said I could bring bagels.  Bagels!?!  Whatever.  I miss the little boy that he used to be, but I love the teenager that he is now.  We've had some good times together and I hope that there will be many more to come.

age 1 

birthday - 10 years old

 age 7

 First day of 1st grade

 6th grade

2nd grade

XC 2012