not okay

okay husband...

i get it. i get that you need some me time. i even get that you want to watch the football game(S) all alone, without interruption.

i even get the need to close the door to drown out the noise of two children and a wife busily cooking a (ahem, delicious) dinner for you.

BUT

giving the kids musical instruments, showing the boy how to make a drum, and then going into the bedroom to watch football while your wife cooks dinner, while being seranaded by this....





and then shutting the door to enjoy the game?

not. okay.

(he knows i am kidding, but that really is what happened at our house tonight. the video is a whopping 30 seconds. the singing along with their own music actually lasted closer to 30 minutes.)

i am out. i am going to lay down to get rid of this headache.

not RIF'd...but still chaos!!!

well, i survived. the RIF, that is.

unfortuantley, one of my friends, colleagues and teammate did not. she taught second grade math.

now i do. i got "transferred" to teach math and science (at my own campus). and i had to move into her classroom, even as she was still moving out. that wasn't awkward or uncomfortable at all.

so here i am, ten weeks into school, and starting over. i guess one positive is that i already know the kids, but i am still moving, unpacking, and learning to teach a new math curriculum (in two days...with no notice!)

things are still a little chaotic as we all adjust. but lets face folks, that 30 million dollars in "saved" salaries...thanks to the feds...that isn't gonna happen. they aren't gonna grant us special waivers because we are incompetent. and NOR SHOULD THEY. so when the next round of layoffs...my guess to the tune of 300 more teachers/instructional coaches/specialists occurs...yours truly may not be so lucky.

in fact, with Christmas past (at that point), a baby due in two months, and a three-month salary for quitting....yours truly might just volunteer to sign those papers!

happy birthday boys!

both the boys in my life had birthday celebrations this weekend.



on friday night, i actually planned ahead....and with a little help (and some babysitting grandparents) we went out on the town! i took husband to morton's steakhouse ( i know...we even had a small table in the bar on texas-ou weekend!) and to the stars season opener against the blue jackets! dinner was great (if you go...i cannot suggest the mac n'cheese enough!) and the game was a lot of fun. we had some great seats, just to the side of turco....and even though the stars lost, it was still a lot of fun! we thought about staying for the concert after the game, but it was crazy in victory park with all the fans....so we headed home.



saturday was a crazy fun day....we had family and friends over for the boy and husbands party that evening....stretching into night....but it was also a great time. it is so hard for me to believe my little boy will be two this week. (ok, not hard to believe, given his propensity for temper tantrums...but hard to accept.) we had a pinata, and a cake...and later hot wings, dominos and this bizzare dance.....

you just never know what will wind up hapening after (most) of the kids are asleep.

happy birthday daddy and "matman"!