Tuesday Update

Tonight’s dinner was served by Chili’s. It was tasty, and tonight it was nice to visit with some other people. Sometimes after a day spent with the same people I don’t feel like hanging out after work. This is a nice group, though.

I hope you have had a chance to check out the pictures I added to the gallery. You can click on the link to the right of this entry titled “Erin’s Pictures” to see shots of my family. Over Christmas I plan to get the camera out and really start sharing.

We observed different middle school classes today, and it was awesome. For those of you who don’t know a lot about Success For All, we ask our schools to use every available resource for teaching reading. This helps maintain smaller reading class sizes and the ability for children to be taught at their instructional level. I could go on and on about this, but the point I’m trying to make is that if you’re a Math teacher who works in an SFA school, you’ll probably be teaching reading. Anyway, there were some amazing out-of-content area teachers.

I missed Bill’s call last night; I was sleeping. He found out he gets to go to Mac World, so that’s exciting news. Mac World is in January in San Francisco. All the biggest Mac nerds will be there! 🙂 I use the term nerd in the most endearing way. It’s certainly not an insult, as I wear a shirt that says geek on it proudly.

I am totally procrastinating on tonight’s homework. I am supposed to be ready to present a 60 minute lesson for training the Reading Edge tomorrow. I don’t think it’ll be that difficult, though I know I need to prep it. Unfortunately, I also have this feeling that we’re not really going to train it – so why should I put a lot of effort into it right now? I know, that’s bad. Still, I can fall back on the reason that I didn’t get it done is because I was out to dinner with the person in charge of this training and my area manager. It’s about who you know not what you know, right? 😉

Ape found part of her Christmas present from me. She’s always been the one who snoops around and knows everything she’s getting. I’m sure this year I just left it out in my hurry to get packed for this week. Drat. She doesn’t know 1/2 of it, though, and she seems to like the 1st. Lo’s in Rochester, I guess, so no worry of her finding presents. I’m starting to think that Lo and I could compete for most flexible schedule. Well, we should be realistic – Dad’s right in that game.

I guess Katie’s come down with some terrible bug – complete with fever and all the icky stuff. She’s trying to get through finals week before heading home for Christmas. I hope she gets some “well” time to enjoy the holiday season at college. Christmas was always my favorite time at BSU.

Once again, for those of you in the Cook area this next week – I’d love to grab a coffee and a quick visit. (Melissa – coffee would be the perfect solution to a limited amount of time!) Can’t wait to hear more about your lives! [I’m begining to think EVERYONE should have a blog so I can keep up with you… don’t tell Bill! 😉 ]