Taking the Plunge!

Well, here I go!  Tomorrow is a full day of in-service, and Tuesday afternoon I begin teaching my 3 classes.  I'm excited and scared! 

School

Lana took this picture of me studying in October right after I took pictures of her with her Roundhouse school project (sitting on the front, left corner of my desk.)  I guess this is the only picture we have of me "in school."  Soon 'twil be but a distant memory....  As of this evening, I have finished two of my classes.  Three to go in the next few days!

Home Again

Rob's dad has been in the hospital here for a week.  Upon admission to the hospital, it was discovered that his blood sugar was sky-high.  As in, off the charts, high!  Doctors are speculating it is a result of the meds he has been on for his auto-immune condition.  (Prednisone being the main suspect....)  He is feeling much better, and they arrived home this afternoon.  He has learned to check his blood sugar and give himself shots.  We are hoping this is just temporary.  Thanks to Aunt Hazel for standing by them this past week. 

A special visitor

We have had a special visitor with us since we returned from Montana....  Flat Colter!  I love this school project.  We had Kyla here a few years ago.  They get "flattened" and sent all over the place to visit.  The mail is much cheaper than plane tickets!

Here is Colter after he ate lasagna with us for supper.  I think he may have spilled on his pants.  Mattie found it and licked it clean...

We're sending Colter on his way.  Don't be surprised if he ends up in your mailbox soon!  He will be traveling until March...

Ready or Not... Here it comes!

We have had an extraordinary fall...  I will miss these days of bright, crisp sunshine with the scent of cottonwood leaves in the air.  There is just no denying it; winter is coming.  Today we got our first dusting of snow.  Hopefully winter will bless us with an abundance of sunshine.  It has a most amazing way of reflecting off the snow and making the winter world bright indoors and out.  That is what I look forward to this winter.

Open forum about Home-Ec (FACS)

Does anyone have any good memories of a Home-Ec class?

Or do you have a child who has taken a Life Skills or FACS class?

What about that class was your favorite (if you took one)?

If your kids will soon be old enough to take a Life Skills or FACS class, what do you think they should learn?

I am so open to ideas!  While I'm going to school, I always have the sideline thought of what I'm going to teach next semester and how I'll do it....  It's really quite exciting and sometimes quite overwhelming - depending on my psyche at the moment!

The program is open.  I've been given lots of freedom to choose what I teach.  What are your thoughts and ideas?

I will deeply appreciate each thought!!!!

Thinking of Grandpa and wandering down Memory Lane...

 

This is the first of this series of pictures of Grandpa.  It was taken in 1995 at my wedding.

I like this picture of Grandpa and all his and Grandma's Children. I don't remember the exact date of this reunion, but I know Rob and I didn't have kids yet and were married.  Somewhere between 1995 and1999... 

When Evan was a year old, we took a road trip through Montana.  I have great memories of this time with Grandpa.  I remember this as "Grandma's Chair," but it was special that Grandpa used it after she was gone.

 

Evan's first 4-wheeler ride was with Great Grandpa Clarence...

And his first horse ride was with Grandpa's help.  Yikes!!

While we were there with Grandpa, Evan pulled himself up for the first time on the stone fireplace.  I have so many childhood memories that center around that fireplace.  This was special.

Grandpa spent Thanksgiving 2002 with us at Wolf Point.

Grandpa visited us in May 2004 while we were with Mom.

And he visited again in Mom's last days.  This was their last time together here on Earth...

 

 

At Mom's funeral time, Grandpa with the grandkids....  There are more pictures and more memories, but time and space don't allow.  I'm thankful for my grandpa.  He was a sweet man, and lived a good life.  He had much to go on to.