Readernation!
It is officially my favorite time of year!
Because I have become delinquent in my keepings up about events and such in the last few months, I figured we'd kick it off for this final blast of 2015 with some year-in-review exposure. Now, here in the blog-o-sphere, I think of my e-speciality as bringing you a story in photos. So I went through my rolodex brain of creativity and wondered about how to make that happen for you even now, in this year-in-review attempt, because a year is kind of a lot of time. And then I got to thinking about all of the things that have happened in 2015. And I summoned my people, and we put together a plan. So, 2015 can be summarized in the photo below:
Family Christmas Photo, 2015: E, K, Bro-in-Law, New Baby Niece, and Sis-in-Law. Because there's nothing more romantic than your new husband trying to shoe-horn you into your wedding dress on the day after Thanksgiving, then giving up, and going with the ol' Mexican blanket trick.
And so, I bring you The List of 12 Different Things from 2015 Song. *Harmonica hums* (so that you can tune up your voice). In the year 2015, we had a lot going on: 12 months of awesome 11 minutes getting hats airbrushed in Tybee 10 garden projects 9 credit-hour semester (gross) 8 maids of distinction (in the wedding party) 7-day mini-moon in New Mexico 6 hours of graduation ceremonies 5 wedding rehearsals (the wedding of K&E, and then E got his certificate of ministry and officiated an Indian-Hispanic wedding for our friends, Hi L&Y, hope you’re enjoying your honeymoon)… 4 new race cars 3 months eating crackers 2 road race runners Newlyweds and a bay-ay-ay-beeeeee!
Reader Nation, I hope that you enjoyed that little ditty as much as I enjoyed composing it for you.
In other, work-ier news, here are some highlights from the classroom in December.
T: So, if we consider this cube to be ONE, then if I divide it into 10 EQUAL pieces, what FRACTION would we use to describe one of the pieces?
(S raises hand, T calls on)
S: My elf came to my house last night. He wrote my name in Cheerios.
T: (searching for connection) Were there 10 Cheerios?
S: Dunno. Didn't count them.
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S: I can't write about Ronald Reagan after his presidency.
T: Why not?
S: He died at war when he was president.
T: (pause) Will you show me where you found that in the book?
S: Sure. (Gets book. Flips through pages. Points to word "battle.")
T: (reads sentence aloud) "Ronald Reagan died at the age of 92, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease."
S: Oh. I didn't read that part.
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(First day back from Thanksgiving, and T is sporting a fresh haircut)
T: (to one student) Did you hear the announcement? It's time to clean up.
S: (no response)
T: (Crouches down to S level) Student, it's time to clean up.
S: (looks up for the first time in... an hour?) AAAAAAAh! WHAT'S HAPPENING? YOUR HEAD LOOKS WEIRD!
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(Teacher reads aloud final part of My Father's Dragon by R. S. Gannett)
T: ... "But my father and the dragon knew that nothing in the world would ever make them go back to Wild Island." (pause) What a relief. They got away!
S: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure they're going to go back.
T: What makes you think that?
S: They said it.
T: They said that they're never going back.
S: Oh.
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That's all I have for now. I hope that all of you are getting in the spirit of the season and making up some of those good-deed-a-day calendars and such things. Gosh, I do love Christmas.
Until Next Time,
K