Life

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    It is Hard to Fail, but it is Worse to Never to have Tried to Succeed (Teddy Roosevelt)

    While making the decision to go back to school or not, I’ve run into a bunch of “road blocks” we’ll call them.  Mainly though it’s brain blocks! I’ve been frustrated because I’m 28 years old, and while that doesn’t seem, THAT old… I sure feel old.  Luckily going to some of my classes, there are…

  • What I love about Sunday's

    Sunday night we hosted Sunday Night Dinner again.  Normally it’s always at Pokey & Earl’s (or as I affectionately renamed them Perky & Early) but this summer we volunteered a couple times since we had the pool.  Here before long we’ll have to shut it down so we thought, why not one more shabang! My…

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    Many Hats

    People in general wear many hats. Teacher, educator, mom, dad, grandma, uncle, niece, nephew, worker, taxi driver (haha), animal provider, the list is infinite! Some days it almost seems like we have to wear too many hats.  I’m not sure about you, but at times not even one “hat” looks good on my head, little…

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    What Teacher's Make

    When I was in college, I had days that were hard.  Now that I’m back in college, I feel I have more of that ahead.  My first time around I went to be a High School Agriculture Teacher.  Maybe not the same as a grade school teacher but still I had the power to make…

  • Journal of a Joplin Teacher

    With School starting in the area, I thought this was just really cool.  Maybe not something y’all would be interested in, however some of this stuff I want to remember. This is from the journal of a teacher in Joplin, Missouri, as the school year is beginning. It puts many things into perspective. This may…

  • Do the Brokey Pokey

    Sunday morning it was confirmed that we’d have Sunday night dinner at our house this week since we finally got the pool back up and going.  Then around 3pm on Sunday Earl called and said that Pokey had fallen off a mule and possibly broken his arm, was there anyway she could bring the kids…

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    My List

    One of my co-workers asked me the other day if I listened to Country Music and before I could answer, she answered for me with, probably not. I grinned and said, yeah I do, the only reason I don’t here at work is because I get one station, and it isn’t country (it’s light rock…

  • I'm THAT Girl…

    How cute is this, I saw it over at Living a Barefoot and Crazy Lifestyle and thought I might as well join in too. PS isn’t the quilt my grandma made us gorgeous? I’m THAT Girl who… …doesn’t wash my hair everyday.  If I do… Wowza!  (Hey you wouldn’t know if I didn’t tell) …gets…

  • Big News!!!

    Do you notice something? How about if I give you a bit of a clue? Still not getting it? Well try this: Yes, my hair will now go in a ponytail! That is all 🙂 (and how many of you thought I was gonna say I’m pregnant?  Well I’m not!!  I’m just excited about the…

  • "Get Up Early"

    If there is one phrase I hate to hear it is, “We have to get up early,” followed by “We have to get up earlier than normal.”  Blah! I’m not a morning person.  Let me be the first to admit that! So Friday night the conversation went a little something like this: PC to Tbug:…