Monday

Today has been a quiet day, the fires seem to be under control, but still we couldn't go outside for recess in school because of poor air quality. Spent the day testing testing testing.
Got home and it was quiet also, M cooked roasted chicken, very yummy with stuffing. T was busy with the computer and watching 2 and a half men, he really enjoys the show.
I am looking forward to seeing my girls this week, but I feel sad that T is going to be leaving this week. We really love to have him here and he enjoys it too :)

OMG

I had nothing much to write about today, we spent the day inside because the air was bad to breathe and the TV gave warnings to stay home. The Orange County fire is still burning and is 0% contained :(
We just went out for dinner at Daphne's Greek Cafe. T ate with gusto!
After watching Survivor on TV, I came to the computer to write my blog, but first I read L's (glad you are having a nice trip), and my sister's (have fun in your Cinderella cruise), and then S's, that's when I called T and asked him, hey guess who this is?
"OMG OMG OMG please let me faint now, are you sure that's my mom?", was his answer, of course referring to the new picture in the blog!
You look great! :)

California fires

WOW this is the closest we've ever been to a fire breakout. We woke up to a gorgeous warm Southern California day, but by noon time, the air was rarefied with smoke and the smoke covered the sun making it burn bright red. There was a big fire in Yorba Linda, by evening time it had spread to Brea, which is about 10 miles east of La Mirada. Watching TV, the enormity of the fire and its impact was mind boggling. 23,000 people evacuated in Yorba Linda and many many houses and businesses destroyed.

M's sister and husband came over by 3 and stayed for dinner. They just left. They live closer to the other big fire in Newhall Pass.

Let's hope the firemen and the helicpoters and planes dropping flame retardant get the best of the fire. They really deserve a lot of credit.

This is a picture taken from our front porch at around 1:00 PM

The Weekend

This has been a short week because of my 2 days off Monday and Tuesday, but for some reason I am super tired, so i will write af ew lines before bed, yes bedtime at 10:30!!!
Tomorrow M's sister and her husband, and maybe their son and dil and grandson will come to visit. T said he can't wait to show them what he can do with his heelys.
Adn that's about it for today, my eyes are closing....Bona nit!

By the light of the silvery moon

Full moon tonight, a gorgeous bright full moon (same one as in Sweden) , so after Survivor, T and I hit the Jacuzzi and spent some blissful time soaking, relaxing and enjoying the warmth of the water and the clearness of the night.

Ranting

Our principal gave us, the Kindergarten team, a package of testing we have to do before December 5. It consists of Language Arts: letter and sound recognition, beginning sounds, high frequency words, DRA level reading, and 5 pages of writing. Then comes the Math...number recognition to 50, writing to 50, counting to 50. Recognizing shapes, doing graphs, beginning addition, and patterning.

Of course, every single thing has to be done individually, which means times 20 children.

Just for fun tomorrow we have an earthquake drill, Friday we have teacher collaboration and then Thanksgiving vacation, so in total we 10 days for testing, scoring and scanning it to the computer.

Oh and of course when we are testing a kid, we need to have something ready to have the other 19 children occupied lol.

Now you know why i love being a kindergarten teacher!

Beach time!

T and I went to Huntington Beach today. It was a beatiful mild day. N was feeling better and enjoyed helping T keep his balance, he's really coming along well! N thought T needed a helmet so we drove to a bike store where he bought him a nice helmet, then we went to the HB pier. T enjoyed running up and down the pier and then we went to eat at Ruby's.

We had a nice day, very enjoyable and fun :)