The Education of Young Children

A couple of weeks ago I spent some time in my classroom switching out some of the toys. I grabbed some blocks from the supply room and threw them in the class. The next morning I started taking a closer look at the blocks and realized that I could not in good conscience leave them there, however I think they offer some great entertainment.


































My personal favorites: the shrimp, the battleplan, the missile, the electric torch and the beer. Honestly who puts a mug of beer on a child's play toy?!
I ended up editing them with a black permanent marker so the kids could still enjoy the building pleasure.

I'm freaking out!!!!

Tonight I had the first piece of hard evidence that I am in fact getting older! I found my first grey hair! Where should it make its appearance? Right smack dab in the middle of my forehead.

Some would pull it and deny they even found it, but that just seems fundamentally wrong. So the hair will stay and I will try to accept my fate to some day be a aged woman.

Olympics here I come!

Last Friday I took a 2 hour introduction to curling class.

Yesterday was snowshoeing.

I didn't get a picture of it, but I was able to get $5 tickets to a motocross event. Amazing what a bike can do in the air!

The official return to blogging

Many of you may wonder what has kept me from blogging for the last few months. The answer: School and work.

I retook anatomy, physiology for improved grades and added microbiology to the mix.

In preparation for my 18 tests (21 scheduled but I was fortunate enough to get out of 3) I spent a lot of time making flash cards.

But all the paper and hours spent were a recipe for success.

The end of the semester happened to fall on national cupcake day so my good friend April and I celebrated by making some adorable cupcakes.

There were some fun diversions during the semester as well.

Following the end of school. There was Christmas, new years, snowshoeing, and a double doughnut adventure... This is one of two gingerbread endeavors. You should know this was a group effort.

After we made the doughnuts we went and did donuts in the freshly fallen snow.

I'm the one laying down in the snow on the right.