Technology Reflections

Thanksgiving was nice. It was low-key and relaxed – just the way i like it. we had a small dinner here at my parents with friends of theirs joining us. Dinner was delicious – turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, green beans, caramelized onions, sweet potatoes and homemade apple and pumpkin pie with ice cream for dessert. Then last night we did it all over again. Mom made turkey soup, too! YUM!

Yesterday Mom and I braved the malls – I even went back in the afternoon t try to find a shirt that I bought in another color – but they were sold out

Dad installed wireless a few weeks ago so now getting online here is so easy! I used to have to connect to his modem with a long ethernet cord and then he’d want to go online, so I’d have to log off – it was a never ending battle for the internet. Now we can both be online and I even took my laptop downstairs to show my mother something.

I still have today and tomorrow off – I’ll be leaving my parents house in a couple of hours to head home. I have the never-ending cleaning to attend to at home and maybe I’ll do more shopping this weekend. Lesson plans are written for next week, but the week after that we’re starting another novel (Absolutely Normal Chaos) so I need to start planning that – I hope I have a copy of the book at home. Reading the novel will continue for a week or so after the Winter break, then it will be the big push for state test prep. The tests are given in late February this year.

We’re also starting after-school tutoring for the lowest of our kids to give them more help for the state tests. I will be teaching 8th graders one afternoon a week. Last year we did 3:30 – 5:00pm, but from 4:30 – 5:00 I was fighting for their attention. I told the powers that be that we needed to end at 4:30 and they agreed, but then they forgot that they agreed and sent the letter home with the 3:30 – 5:00 times! ARGH! I’ll teach for an hour then have them use a computer program for the last 30 mins. I’ll take the extra 30 mins pay <G>.

This break was a necessary one – we all needed time to recharge our brains and get ready for the next few weeks until Winter Break……

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