School's Out For Summer!

Hooray!! School's out for summer! Sometimes I joke around and say my three favorite things about teaching are June, July and August. But in all seriousness, there is some truth to that. Next week I am starting my reading endorsement and will be busy with that. I have homework due on my first day of class. Yuck. Our text for the class is called Proust and the Squid. I've heard the book is really good, but frankly speaking, the name doesn't really peak my interest. Quite the contrary. I read the inside jacket and it is about the psychology of the reading brain. I guess I won't know until I read it. I really enjoyed Cris Tovoni's book, Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? I also really like the book Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey. I don't enjoy reading textbooks. I much prefer practical application and personal experience stories. It's also good to start off my summer with some auctions on E-Bay. I just sold some things and soon I can go e-baying to buy. Right now I am browsing the women's handbags (I'm blogging and e-baying on different tabs. My computer is slow so I multi-task - which makes it slower...go figure). I found a gorgeous Hermes bag that is a bit out of my price range at $8,000. But it's fun looking, right?

Indiana Jones

Well, it rained all day so it didn't work out to go weed my garden. Instead we took the family to see Indiana Jones. I enjoyed it. Maybe I will get to my garden next week. Three and a half days of school left! Actually four and a half if you count the fact I have to go in on Saturday for check out. Then the first week of June is spoken for because I am taking some classes to get my reading endorsement and I'll be in class all week. All's good. I need to go get Tori to bed.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Today I have decided to start my own blog. I'm always fascinated by technology and all that it has to offer and I'm hoping this is a way to share my thoughts and feelings with family, friends and anyone else who feels like joining in. I don't quite know what direction this blog will take yet, but I imagine I will talk mostly about the day to day things that happen. Just a little about me: I am the mother of two wonderful kids. Tyler who is 13 and Tori who is 8. I teach 6th grade English and Social Studies at Mount Logan Middle School in Logan, UT. My husband teaches P.E. at Woodruff Elementary. Right now we are all counting down the days until summer vacation (There's only three and a half days!!!) I enjoy summer and the time we get to spend together with family. My next projects are planting my garden and a possible garage sale. I have been trying to get raspberries to grow. Everyone tells me it's like growing weeds, but I've been trying for four years now without much luck. Actually, the weeds grow pretty good....just not the raspberries. Maybe this will be the year I can get the raspberries to grow. It ought to help that I live in raspberry country. Cache Valley Utah is known for growing good raspberries. My dad (who lives in Orem) tells me that some of the best raspberries come from around Bear Lake. I will be out in my garden tomorrow weeding and getting things ready to plant my garden again. My husband, Tom, wonders why I keep trying. I figure if I keep at it, I will learn how to do it. And besides that....I absolutely love raspberries.