Blue and Gold Banquet/Flu and Other Happenings

Well it's been a hectic couple of weeks. We have all been sick witht he Flu or a stomach virus or something. It started on Feb. 13 with Adam. Affton and SLPS were the only schools around who were actually dumb enough to send kids to school that day but we all go sent home early. So at about 12:30 when we got home for a snow day, Adam started throwing up and didn't stop until 2 days later. He was the worst with it. Then that night I started in with the other end of the body and mine lasted until well into the next evening which was Valentine's Day. (how romantic!) Hannah picked it up on Saturday morning and had coming out of both ends, which lasted until Sunday evening. Monday was President's Day so the kids and I were all home together but Bob was at work. He came home about 7pm and he started throwing up and it lasted about 24 hours for him also. Justin has been lucky it hasn't affected him YET! But he does have a pretty rough cold.

So we have all been playing catch up with school work and house work etc all week long.

Tonight, Adam and I attended his Blue and Gold Cub Scout Banquet. It was cute and fun and he enjoyed seeing some of his new friends outside of school. Tomorrow we have our last two hockey games except for the ALL STAR game on March 17. Hannah also has a basketball game so as usual our weekend will be busy but I thought I would catch up on some blogging. I will download pictures of the banquet and the hockey teams soon.

Other than that, it has been the same old same old around here. NOT, there is never a dull day in this household.

Here's hoping I get a nice dull day at home soon :)

Till then, have a great week.!

A Miracle Occurred

Well, it's been one heck of a week. Kids have been suspended, 2 kids from my room moved, I got one new student and we have been trying to implement lunch detention in my room in effort to deter bad behavior. So you can imagine how hectic it has been. Then to top it all off, one of my 6th grade reading students cursed me out and threatened to, "beat my fat a*#". So as you can imagine I was this close to calling it quits, throwing in the towel and heading for unemployment. But then the miracle occurred.

We were having class meeting when one of my students, Terrance Tucker, who has been the bane of my existence for two years stands up and says, "You know guys we really need to stop jonesing on each other because we are a family and we have to go to school for the rest of the ear so we might as well get along!" Well,I about fell off my chair, tears welled up in my eyes and I said Terrance when did you grow up. It was the moment every teacher dreams of, when finally you have broken though. That moment of clarity!! We all clapped and cheered for him and I hope it is going to be the beginning of great things for him because then another student stood and said, I really want to thank Mrs. Nixon for looking out for us like she does. Again, the water works came to my eyes. But it truly was a great moment!


I hope you have some great moments this week as well.

Big News and Fun Times

Well the big news is that Adam won 2nd place in the Pinewood Derby. He was so excited. His car was really cute, it was a Luau theme this year. He and Daddy worked really hard on it.

The other news is the fun time I had at the lake. We scrapbooked, ate, shopped, ate, slept, ate, talked, and ate. Can you tell the theme of our weekend? We had a really good time just gossiping about work and men and sharing each other's family pictures and scrapbook albums. Although the weather was extremly cold, we stayed in and kept warm all bundled up in our sweats and PJ's.

We enjoyed a delicious Sunday brunch at Black Bear Lunch and had fun eating at Pickled Petes, one of my favorite lake places. We found extra supplies at Wal-Mart and hit the outlet mall despite the cold. I am feeling very refreshed and relaxed now and eager to get back into the swing of school and home. My diet however was blown as you can tell by all the eating we did so I have to get back on track and back to the community center to exercise this week.