Owl Things First!: Fog Day Blues

Isn't he a beauty?

The last time I was sick was in Alabama two days away from my home in Michigan. My man and I had taken our daughter to a wedding of some of her college friends. We dropped her off and it was supposed to be a romantic getaway with a Audubon field-trip to find the scissor-tailed flycatcher. I'd been waiting to see that beauty for years. As "luck" would have it I ended up in an emergency room with a UTI. I spent most of the weekend in bed watching TV! I did manage to catch a glimpse of several scissor-tails.

Most of my pictures are me behind binoculars!

That was seven months ago...

Don't get me wrong, I've had several colds over the past months...I teach first graders! Here we are today, and my man and I have an empty house. I have a fever and a raging sore throat. My head aches and I feel completely dizzy. A nice quiet dinner and a bottle of wine don't even sound good.Except for the quiet part.Hold the dinner! Where's my pillow? I have to wait until 5:45 to get into the doctor. I just want to make sure it isn't step throat.

My morning began with a phone call at 5:30....5:30. Who calls at 5:30...The school announcing a fog delay. Now, I would normally be overjoyed,but my nose started bleeding and I couldn't get back to sleep. I just got up and had a cup of coffee and should have known I was getting sick when it didn't taste good.

I don't feel well enough to switch this image! Turn your head a little...There, now you've gotten some exercise! The Desk Monsters were designed by Molly Malone at lessonswithlaughter.blogspot.com She is having a give away on her blog . . . A $25.00 Target card.

I was pretty excited about first grade today. I had revamped my daily review. I had hung a rainbow in the room. Zero the Hero had dropped off a treat for day 130. The Desk Monster had left a treat in some of the desks. We were in the middle of making our hand print rainbow when someone said it was lunch. I laughed and said we still had an hour. I was wrong. I hadn't changed my watch last weekend. (My family need not comment about my problem with dates and times!) We hadn't read the Leprechaun book I had written. We hadn't written about what was more precious to us than gold. Drat that 2 hour delay.

Thanks KB Konnected for your awesome graphics!

I teach computer and music in the afternoons, but I was able to squeeze a little time in after lunch. Just enough to finish the rainbow and put some gold under it! I thought about getting a sub, but knew I couldn't on such short notice. My computer and music classes worked so quietly that I had to give them all an A for the day!

We sang and laughed as we made our hand-print rainbow. I love the pot with their gold thumbprints!

I wanted them to write their own ideas, but we just ran out of time. I quickly wrote down their ideas as our precious time came to an end. My first graders are worth far more than gold to me.

Before I sign off I have to share the leprechauns we made yesterday. They just make me laugh when I look at them and I love to laugh! I hope they give you a chuckle!