Ellen wants me to update the blog

Honestly, I don't have much to report here. It's just been the typical back to school busy days. The days fly by.

Paul has been grouse hunting this weekend. Ellen started volleyball practice this week and will start band soon. She wants to play the saxophone. Carly is enjoying school and because she is only five doesn't realize that her class of 30 kids is too damn big. I had said I'd give it a couple weeks and then I would revisit the issue with my superintendent and principal. So that's a job for this week. I'm going to a referendum committee meeting tomorrow night and I'm going to talk with some school board members about it. I could go on about this for quite a while, but I'll spare all of you.

I also volunteered at the DFL office in Hibbing this past week. They have a "Women on Wednesdays" phone bank, so I did that for a couple of hours. It was me and a bunch of 20 year olds. Two hours on the phone was about all I could take. I could never be a telemarketer. Everyone was nice to me on the phone and I was actually pretty good at it. I'll go again. You can sit around and gripe or you can do something. It felt good to help, but I'd rather do something rather than make phone calls.

Our hockey tickets came in the mail this week. It's hard to believe that we are getting close to that time again. I finished reading the latest David Sedaris book - too funny. I especially liked the airplane crossword puzzle chapter. We finished watching the 4th season of "Entourage" from Netflix last night. I love that show. I could watch every scene with Ari and Lloyd five times and laugh just as hard each time. Paul is a big fan of Johnny Drama. I need to find another comedy to rent from Netflix. I've rented some hour long dramas, but that's so time consuming. I can get an entire season of a comedy done in two weekends.

It rained all weekend. I only left the house to make a quick trip to Walmart and Penneys. I was going through my closet looking for long sleeved shirts and it would appear that I gave an awful lot of mine to Laurie's thrift shop, so I picked up a couple and will need to get a few more when we start going to Duluth for games.

Dinner's ready. Paul cooked a porketta in the crock pot and it smells really good and I'm starving. Everyone have a good week.

First Day of School!

Carly was very excited for the first day of kindergarten. She was ready to 30 minutes before we needed to leave. She's wearing the same dress that Ellen wore for her first day of school. I thought she looked very cute.

Carly's teacher is Miss Samson or as Carly has been calling her - teacher. I correct her every time she says that because it would drive me crazy if my students called me "Teacher."

Ellen's first day was "Awesome!" She has Mrs. Fillman for a teacher. She was hoping to get her. She and Kayla have math and reading together, but are in different classes the rest of the day. They think this is just fine because it means they have more to talk about after school. I wouldn't have thought of that.

My first couple of days have been good. I have 21 kids in my class. They seem pretty good. They follow directions well. Tonight 1/2 of them had to bring home an assignment to finish. It will be interesting to see how many of them do it. Paul has 28 kids. He always has at least that many.

I'll write more this weekend.