I thought I taught high school...

Today I have had

1. to clean up boogers on a desk (no, seriously)

2. A student throwing up in class

3. A student throwing a fit (like a SERIOUS fit) over having homework (uh...you've had 11 years of homework...is this really anything new?)

4. to clean up gum smeared on a desk

(see here for another time I had to do this)

I don't teach elementary school for a reason:

I don't do tears, or boogers, or messes, or whining.

And plus, I'm far from being crafty enough to teach littles.

Ask me to cut a paper snowflake?

I'll end up with scraps of paper and a bloody finger from cutting my hand instead of the paper.

Oh, but hey.

I'm learning more and more everyday, that my high school students are nothing but taller, bigger, and whinier elementary school kids.

Awesome.

Where is the weekend?

what our kids will know.

Taylor and I talk about our future children all of the time.

Thanks to his English major and my history & political science major, I've recently realized that our children will probably have a smatter of odd knowledge.

Taylor and I both talk about things we want our children to know.

Taylor wants to:

-have them memorize classic poems if they want something special (extra money, new clothes, etc)

-read classic novels with him (I think he wants his own little discussion group and book club...ha)

-have them write an essay a month about their thoughts and ideas on a particular topic

-make them answer daily trivia 

I want to:

-tell them bedtime stories--about Napoleon, Louis XVI, Andrew Jackson, the Vietnam war Nixon, world wars, etc.

-make them memorize U.S. presidents

-have them watch the history channel with me

-have them memorize parts of the Declaration of Independence or Constitution

-quiz them on geography if they want an extra scoop of ice cream or a candy bar at the grocery store

And on top of all of that, we hope to have their first language be ASL.

So...it looks like our kids will have to do lots of memorizing...ha.

I'll probably be a softie and give them the extra scoop of ice cream anyways.

But knowing Taylor--he'll sit with those littles until they memorize all of Dickens.

Oh geesh--these poor kids.

Who knows if it will actually all end up happening, but it still makes me laugh when I think about it.

Look out future littles: you're going to be memorizing machines!

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This time I won.

Today in my Government classes, my students took a test on the presidents of the United States.

They only had to know the first 10 (so far).

I noticed one particular student acting extremely "guilty" during the test.

So I kept my eye on him.

Was he cheating?

As they passed the tests forward, he was very careful to keep his arm covered.

Well, that is sure suspicious, dear student.

We met eye contact.

And it was an "I know exactly what you did, and we will talk soon" kind of eye-contact.

But then I made a mistake.

The incident briefly left my mind as I reminded my students of upcoming assignments.

I allowed my students to take a quick bathroom break--and then realized I had yet to talk to this particular student.

He took an unusually long time returning from the bathroom.

When he did return, I talked to him out in the hall.

And sure enough, he had writing on his arm.

But...it had nothing to do with the test. 

Just three huge letters, colored in with ink.

After school, when I checked my email, I saw an email from another teacher asking if I was giving a tests on U.S. presidents today.

When I responded that I was, she told me that she saw a student writing the answers on his arm.

Original, right?

And whatdyaknow.

It was the same student.

I'm betting he colored in his arm when he "went to the bathroom."

These little suckers.

They must be so smug to think they outwitted the teacher.

And, I must admit, there are plenty of times they successfully get away with it, and there's not a darn thing I can do about it.

But this time--this time I won. 

I have a strange satisfaction with that knowledge.

C'mon...why you gotta cheat!?

A golfing video.

See the golfing blog post here.
Thanks dear friends for the marvelous time!

lately: things that make me smile

Editing with our new dual screens.

 Becoming best friends with this darling little.

Finding this note on a sweet student's paper to remind himself that my birthday was coming up.

He even brought me a 2 liter coke!

 Editing "together" late at night.

Silly conversations.

I clearly meant to say, "call me asap."

But I was cooking and had flour all over my hands when I texted that.

So true to Taylor's personality, he called me Wsap all last night.

(because I "asked" him to. get it? ;)

Last night

Taylor and I were like 12 year olds at a sleepover last night.

For some reason, everything was funny.

Super funny.

We laid in bed for almost an hour just laughing about the stupidest things.

And I literally almost peed my pants when we saw this:

It's times like these when I am so very grateful to be married to my best friend--who will laugh uncontrollably with me until midnight on a Tuesday.

And some random Wednesday thoughts:

1. It's MAY!

2. It's snowing today...and it's May...

It is so depressing.

3. Check out this amazing blog post to learn more about the Mormon church. Bonnie explains it in the most simple and easy way.  Plus, she's just awesome.

4. Happy Wednesday!