Parent Teacher Conferences

So this week was Parent-Teacher Conference week at work. Even though it makes for a crazy week of back to back meetings and late nights, I always look forward to the conferences because you get to hear some great stories about the kids we work with from the parents and teachers.

I just had to share this year's best story. This comes courtesy of my friend Mandy - who is also a family consultant - so here goes.

Mandy, the teacher, and a parent are discussing how to help children understand emotions and to how to build empathy for others in children. Mom reports that she has been working really hard at home on what it means to be respectful to others. Mom states last week she told her son that it was disrespectful to rub his feet on his sister's head when she was sitting on the floor in front of him.

So, the next morning as the family is getting ready for the day, the mom reports "I came around the corner and saw him getting dressed in his room and I saw that he had put his underwear on backwards". So she says to him "you have your underwear on backwards - you need to take them off and turn them around so Superman is in the front".
Her son replies "But, Mom it would be disrespectful to put my peter in Superman's face!" :)
Gotta love 3 year-old logic - I mean really how do you argue with that?

Brayden has arrived!

We had a great weekend in KC!
We were able to meet our new nephew Brayden and spend some time with his big brother Alex.
Here are a few pictures of the new arrival and his big brother.

Congrats to Elena & Kyle!

Congrats to my baby sister and Kyle!

Kyle asked Elena to marry him last night!

and she said yes!

YEAH!

Love & Hugs to them both

and a very Happy Birthday to Kyle!

The move

My grandmother made the move from outside Dallas, Texas to Lindsborg, Kansas this weekend. While we didn't travel to Texas to help with the packing and loading we did help form the Kansas welcoming and unloading commitee!
Here are a few pictures of our cold - cold - cold evening!

Brynn is here!

Congrats to Ryan and Jamie on the arrival of Miss Brynn!

We traveled down to Hutch last night to meet her and catch up with the proud new parents!

(Brynn hanging onto Bryan's finger)

We had a great time and are looking forward to meeting new arrival Brayden this weekend.

What a Week!

Ah January! This was a rough week - and boy am I super happy that it is almost over.


I woke up Monday morning grumpy about going to work (which truthfully is pretty normal for a Monday) I always seem to struggle on those days that the kids are out and there is no school, yet I still have to be there. I mean really where's the fun in that? Anyway I managed to survive the multitude of meetings scheduled and then somehow, thankfully, it was soon Wednesday already.

Wednesday morning is when I woke up grumpy and missing those holiday weeks were I only had to work 2 or 3 days! So I was in a super mood when I was paged by one of my classrooms because they "lost" a child! WHAT? you say? How does a classroom lose a child? That's what I wanted to know! In my 5 years here - I have never had that happen. So after much running around and frantic searching he was discovered, happily playing. And as is the case most of the time with kids, he had no clue he had been "lost".

At just the moment this week when I thought I might need to take a "mental health day" the following quote came my way:


Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,
so love the people who treat you right,
forget the ones who don't,
and believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy,
they just promised it would be worth it.



Going with the theme of the week, Molly went to the doggy salon yesterday, and was apparently a very grumpy girl. She made escape attempts twice while being trimmed and then refused to let the groomer clip her nails. In the words of the groomer "I have no clue what happened, she is usually so good when she is here."


Here is a picture she let me take post groom at home last night:










We were hoping to have new babies to visit this weekend - but much to the frustration of Jamie and Angela it seems that we will have to wait one more week to meet Brynn and Brayden!
We know you're tired and ready to be done - but hang in there ladies!


My grandma is making the move back to Kansas this weekend. So we'll be headed to Lindsborg to help unload the moving truck on Sunday.

Happy weekends to you all!