Nowhere to go but up!

The only great thing about bad days is that the next day can't be any worst.

I came to school this morning pissed off and determined.

I knew I had to get myself together, which I did, in order to get my kids back in line...

and back in that line they went (:

Little things my kids did this week that made me smile

• Little J during our 'doggy doggy where's your bone game' (speaking to herself) "I don't know where the bone is because I wasn't paying attention."
• Receiving "best teacher" pictures from Little T
• Beiber dance party
• Giving our fish a last name, with 20 boys of course poor Alvin now has the last name 'Spiderman'
• Skipping dinner for happy hour after yesterday's not so fun-filled day
• Making word family crowns, and one of our kids wrote the sentence "My mom was late for my date" - BOO YEA what a success, he has truly learned his "-ate" words

Last but not least, something shameful I did this week (but resulted in a GOOD laugh). In hopes of investing our students in their education and going to college, each of us has been sharing photos and stories of our families and college experiences. All of our kids were excited about going to college except one of our girls who doesn't think going to college will be fun or necessary to her pursuit of being a hair dresser. I said, in college we have TONS of fun. We have this thing called SPRING BREAK. I told them that they could go on a cruise or go to Disneyland. Of course, all my students got giddy and excited but Little J still was not convinced. Then I said to her, Think about the most fun you've ever had in your life and times that by ten, because that's what Spring Break is like. gawwwwdddd i should be so ashamed ahaha.