My New/Old Love

So my computer has finally made it here and I love it. It took me awhile to set it up and get all the boxes put away, but now I am up and running again, which I hope that means I will be able to add more stuff to here and keep it better updated...speaking of updating, I missed a Friday-Week-in-Review, so I guess I better get to it. Also check out the new sites on the side.

• One of my boys tells a wonderful ghost story about a house, that once you enter you will never leave, because it is FORBIDDEN to leave. He had the class shaking in their boots, until he told them that the ghosts and mummy ate the boy. Then they knew it wasn't real.
• Camp went really well. The kids liked making the trail mix and s'mores the best. I liked the fact that I got to teach all the fun stuff about camp and it didn't really feel like it was work. (For all you teachers out there, I was hitting all the EALRS, don't worry)
• Only 2.5 days of school left and then I am out for the summer, although it doesn't seem like I will really have one with all the things that keep booking themselves onto my calendar.
• I learned never to mess with a boys balls...his croquet ball that is. I tried to send him far, far away, but missed and then he sent me all the way back the beginning. I still had love for him, although he was done for the rest of the night. He kept saying that he was playing nice until someone had to attack him.
• I rode the Mexican Train, but I got derailed a couple of times to stop for beer and didn't come in first. I will give props to my girl, who stuck it to her husband and made it all the way to Mexico and left him home to watch the baby.
• I continue to learn more and more about my kids and friends and what makes them tick and why our friendships work. I love them all and am sad that I will be losing 23 of the young ones and 1 older.
• Telling jokes with 1st graders is a riot, because most of the time they blow the punch line or it is so horrible there is no punch line. Yet they laugh and laugh and laugh at anything. So I told a knock, knock joke about the banana and orange and then the rest of the day all the jokes had bananas in them. Also not all first graders get the no arm, no leg man jokes- so only try those with the intelligent ones. Speaking of jokes...I think I am going to tell them the penguin joke on Monday...I think there heads will spin with that one.
• Here is the new addition to the family. Open and Closed in Paradise aka the spare room.