April

Another of my beautiful roses

I noticed I had not written much in March, so I will try to post more often in April. Blogging is a very good way to keep in touch with family but also is a good way to keep track of events in one's life.

I am looking forward to meeting Mia, and then having Sandy and Tristan and Lizzie visit over Spring Break. Also I think Marvin's family will come over one day when everybody's here. On Tuesday, Marvin and I will go to Kaiser to get the peritoneal catheter surgery. After that we'll probably have some training and start the dialysis. The surgeon is very personable and explained everything really well. Another thing happening this month, is our school Open House, my last one. Sort of bittersweet, I have come to terms with retiring especially with the class I have this year, and with all the education budget problems (less pay, bigger classes etc.), plus the home situation and my age, it is the right time to retire.

And now, a list of the books I read in March :)

Jen Lancaster - My Fair Lazy

Jennifer Ross - The Icing on the Cupcake

Sarah Strohmeyer - The Sleeping Beauty Proposal

Caren Lissner & others - Scenes from a holiday

Steve Martin – An Object of Beauty (half)

Nancy Thayer – Everlasting

Judith Rossner – Olivia

A trip to the farm

I think this might well be my last Kindergarten field trip, and it was not one I will remember too fondly. The farm is in Ontario and it was a pretty long drive from the school. First as usual some of my kids acted up (surprise!), then we had to wait a long time for the tour and all the kids could say was, I'm hungry, I want to eat..blah blah. There were not too many animals, an old cow, a few goats and sheep, a sad looking pig, some rabbits and chicks, and a couple of horses. We also visited the vegetable garden, somewhat overrun with weeds. And of course, the terrible porta pottys lol. And yet the kids had fun and that was the main purpose of the trip :)

The weather was nice, and it's obvious Spring is here. It seems in a matter of days everything has started blooming and budding out. Marvin planted the upside down tomatoes, and we bought a couple more bird feeders.

Now they are forecasting rain for the weekend, oh well I guess the flowers need some water!

And now I'm going to bed...good night!

DST Tomorrow (US)

I know you all have heard so much about the earthquake and tsunami, but it is so awful and sad, it bears repeating. And it came on the heels of the earthquake in New Zealand. It makes you aware to be prepared for emergencies, since we live in earthquake country as well.
Saturday we went with Norbert to El Torito, he's leaving to Las Vegas next week to see his sister and to play with his toys :)
Today I went to a baby shower for my neighbors Amy and Jose, is their first baby. Amy has a sister in VA, and is not close to her parents, so it was mainly his family. They are the nicest couple, their baby is expected early may, they already named him Matthew. Jose's family is Mexican, and I had fun talking to all of them (Amy doesn't speak Spanish).
Marvin was not feeling very well today, his blood sugar was low and even though he ate it wouldn't go up, so he was feeling pretty tired most of the day. After dinner it went up so we are happy about it. I made churros tonight , from scratch, and they were good with hot chocolate.
Next week is report cards, lots of work lol. Monday we have a walking trip to the SFS library, then Monday I take off work and we'll go see the PD doctor, then on Friday is a field trip to the farm with the kindergarten classes. Fun!
And then on Saturday, my grandson officially becomes a teenager!!!!
Don't forget to spring forward, I think Sandy already did. I think in Europe it starts one week later.
Love you all.

March

February was a short month but a lot happened, the good things...our Anniversary, with the girls and Tristan over and having dinner all together...in the bad side, a big scare with Marvin's low sugar episode (as I previously posted), and later having a blood infusion.

And other bad thing: My class from hell! I know I am always bitching about it, but I have 8 children, all boys, that give me trouble almost daily. Today, for the 1st time in 25 years, I took 3 of them to the office to talk to the principal. Unfortunately she was not around.
They are so disrespectful is not even funny, they talk back, they smirk when I talk to them, they stick out their tongue, they push, they break crayons, they are bratty and obnoxious! And they are only 5!!!!!! Next week I am having conferences with their parents, that will be fun.

I just finished watching a movie, I am sure Sandy has seen it because she loooves Ashton Kutchner! it's called "No Strings Attached", it was cute but not great, but it shows his rear end very nicely!!!

I have no special plans for the weekend, may go out to lunch with Norbert. But the main thing I want to do is straighten up my room. I don't want to become a mini hoarder lol.

Here's a list of the books I read in February, I didn't read too much because there was so much going on:
Sarah Addison Allen – The girl who chased the moon
Haywood Smith – Waking up in Dixie
Nancy Thayer – Belonging
Joanna Trollope – Second Honeymoon

Have a fun Carnival time!!!! :)

46th Anniversary

Today Marvin and I celebrated our 46th anniversary. It was a very nice day because we were surrounded by our 2 daughters and grandson. We sure enjoyed their company and are so happy we got to spend the day together.
It was a rainy, chilly, windy day. We had breakfast and lay around talking and enjoying each other, then we all went out to eat at Cha Cha's. It was fun. The girls took care of the bill, that was very nice and also gave us a grill pan that Marvin has been wanting and will really be a nice addition to our kitchen :)
At night the girls and I played Scrabble, and I made a pound cake, we also watched the All Star Basketball Saturday, we like the slam dunk portion of it.

In other news, I bought myself an iPad. So far Tristan, Sandy and Lizzie have played with it more than I have and I am sure they know a lot more than I do on how to run it, but I will learn and it's fun!

Marvin was feeling pretty good today and extra happy to be with the family!
Thank you all for making our Anniversary very special.

And happy birthday to Norbert on his 55th birthday too.

A long weekend

Teachers love February, not only is the shortest month of the year, but we have 2 4-day weeks.

This year our Monday off was on Valentine's Day, so we had to celebrate it at school on Friday.

We had a card exchange and also a Dance-A-Thon to raise money for our field trip. It was a busy busy day. I also got a few chocolate hearts from the kiddies, I kept a few and gave the others away.

Marvin had caught a cold and was not feeling great, but on Saturday we asked Norbert to come and help us with a few things, and we also asked him to stay for dinner. It was a great day, weather wise and food wise. We had steak, asparagus, baked potatoes, grilled carrots, salad and apple pie with ice cream. And beer.

Marv and Norbert took all the gutters off, also took down the Xmas lights in the backyard, so that's done :)

Sunday and Monday were pretty quiet, I went to the Jacuzzi a couple of times, also cooked a little bit and went to the grocery store, cleaned/organized a little and of course, played in the computer.

Now back to work tomorrow. I will take Friday off to go to the airport to pick up Sandy and Tristan, and then on Saturday -our Anniversary- Lizzie will come over too :)

Unfortunately the forecast is for rainy weather...but I am sure we will enjoy being together rain or shine :)

Health scare

When I got home from work on Thursday, Marvin seemed a little tired, he took a nap and woke up disoriented and not being able to work, his blood sugar was low, so we ate some dinner (won ton soup) and he felt better but still shaky. I decided to call the school and take Friday off.
Friday morning I checked on him but he was sleeping so I let him sleep, at 10:30 he still was not up so I went to wake him up but I couldn't, he wouldn't respond, he couldn't talk or sit up or know where he was. I called 911 and in 10 minutes the firemen, medics and ambulance came. There were about 8 of them. They asked questions and went to check on him, and said he had a insulin shock caused by low blood sugar -hypoglycemia-. They gave him a shot and in a few minutes he sat up and was able to answer questions. They asked if he wanted to go to the hospital and he said no. But after they left, I decided to take him to ER because he was still shaky.
We waited like 3 hours in the waiting room, he was called a couple of times to check his vitals and also to give some blood. Later on he was checked into a room where we stay for about 5 more hours. They checked him pretty thoroughly and he was discharged to go home by 9:30PM. The doctor told us to check his blood sugar every 4 hours.
When we got home, Lizzie had called saying she would come over, she was on her way. He was feeling better by then. Today Saturday, his blood sugar was OK, I made breakfast and he has a sandwich for lunch and then the 3 of us went to ChaCha's for a (yummy) early dinner.
Mia, that was the reason I wrote in Facebook it had not been a good Friday.
Have a good Superbowl Sunday everybody!