Courtney started at the hospital last week, and she seems to be liking it a lot. I'm really glad that she's doing what she wants to be doing, but it worries me to have her working those 12 hour graveyard shifts at the UofU and then driving home, and then she has to go to class before she can sleep, so she has to drive home from Weber. I worry until she texts me to let me know she got where she was going safely.
It was just the little guys for pumpkin carving this year. Lexi predicted that when we cut open the pumpkins there would be candy inside. I imagine that was a disappointment.
These 2 small ones that Josh did, along with the bigger green one that I did, came out of our garden.
Josh and Lexi ready for trick-or-treating:
It rained on us pretty good, but that just made it more Halloweeny. I love the rain. I kept coming across whiners on Facebook and elsewhere cry-babying about how Utah was celebrating the holiday on Saturday instead of Sunday... Hello?! Who the freaker wants to do Halloween on a Sunday night? No one who has kids in school, a job, or is in school themselves, I'll tell you that. Halloween should be on the weekend every year.
Three more weeks-ish of my student teacher, and then I get my classes back. I'm ready to be teaching them all again. Not that I couldn't use more time to do a few projects. I'm trying to put together a whole grammar curriculum from scratch, but I haven't had nearly the free time I was hoping for with a student teacher. Oh well. That's how it goes. I have this student who just loves to try my patience, but he's one of those with enough charm that he can get away with it. Another teacher who also has him told me one day that she overheard him tell a friend, "I love Mrs. Chamberlain. She's like my mom." ROFL I guess I'll let him live, for now. He's a turkey, and I feel for his mom.
I wish I could learn to not be a dork. I had two different encounters with my principal where I was just shaking my head afterward, like, "Really, Shannon? Could you ever just say what you want to say and not have it come out all wrong?" Hopefully I'm overanalyzing it and he didn't notice, but ugh.
I really have to start getting more sleep, and it's all my girls' fault. They are such a bad influence on me. A week or so ago Courtney decided she wanted ice cream at 10:00 at night, so she talked me into going on a Smith's run with her... I come home at 10:45 and make a banana split, and then I'm like... Well holy hell I have to work tomorrow! What am I doing? Last night they made me stay up until 12:30 watching stuff on YouTube. I need to learn not to give in to peer pressure. I guess I'll have plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead... right now I like to hang with my kids.
I have eaten so much crap. I don't even know. It's a sickness. Brittney and I went to Wal-Mart tonight and I swear there is a tractor beam around the donuts that just draws me in, and I am too weak to break out of it on my own. My kids have instructions to say, "Keep moving, mom," when I get sucked in, but tonight Brittney just egged me on. So I came home with donuts. Apparently there was a fight at the front of the store just before we got there, but by the time we got up there they'd taken it outside. I miss all the good stuff.
This week is Brittney's birthday. I need to go shopping for her this week, got to vote, get a flu shot, go out to Salt Lake with Courtney. Brittney is having a sleepover Friday night. That's about it.
3 comments:
You're so funny, Shannon. I loved this. And I'm so with you on needing more sleep.
Glad to hear the deer hunters got back safe. I worried about them all weekend!
Your pumpkins were awesome!!
I understand the kid peer presure about staying up late. How do our kids do that to us? They always seem to talk me into everything! :)
Seriously you crack me up. I love your blog. Never Stop. 2 things: I am also a dork. Believe me when I say patients call and ask for the girl who knows what she's talking about because apparently on the phone or even in person I have a tendency to act like I've never hear a medical term in my life and therefore have no business being at the front desk of a doctor's office. 2nd thing, I am addicted to sugar as well. I figure there are worse things in life to be addicted to. Anything sweet and probably unhealthy lands in my purse, car, desk, pantry, or all four and always gets eaten. Sorry for this long reply. I'm bored and I have no life.
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