Two Ladies and No Baby: April 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Commercials.....

Usually I am not fond of commercials, which is strange because my Dad has spent most of his working life in the ad industry. Luckily DVR and the mute button provide me with much less time annoyed by lame and obnoxious commercials.

Although.....because I feel like I've seen so many bad commercials I can really appreciate the good ones. These seriously put a smile on my face every time I see them. Holla!

Dr. Pepper Commercial

Citi Identity Theft Commercial

Seriously clever Sprite Commercial

Any others that need to be added to the list?

This has nothing to do with this post except that this picture puts a smile on my face everytime I see it. Sheer terror in her face, and it's priceless that someone got a picture of it.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Dear Boys,

I know you think texting a girl for a date is easy and safe. Everyone texts for everything, right? WRONG! You may be really hot and wear sexy aviator glasses, but when you send me a text that says "hey, want to go out Friday night?" you make it WAY easy for me to say no to you. If you can't talk to me enough to call me on the phone, then how do you expect to talk to me enough on a 4 hour date? I'm so over the date text and I think most girls would agree.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Kate's Roses

I like my dad...

... because he makes his own dreams come true

I like my mom... because of this...

... and because she wears blue eye shadow

I like how true love happens... and lasts

I like how big glasses happen... and I like people named George and Dorothy

I like how denim happens...

I like how she...

... married him... mostly because he looks like this

I like how she...

... married our Mexican brother

I like how the previous 4... gave me these little ones...

I like how this boy is so concerned for others

I like how this girl watches TV...

I like his unexplainable dimple...

I like how this boy wears his emotions on his sleeve

I like how he already likes baseball... and how much he likes food

I like her... because she takes care of me

I like her because she likes sweets as much as I do

I like her because she wears pirate shirts when I ask her to...

I like her... mostly because of this picture

I like when 33 happens...

I like how my dad taught me to love baseball...

I like when this happens...

I love her...

I miss her... but happy she's gettin' her missionary on

I miss him... more than I can say

I like him and how weird we can be together

I love raft adventures with these two and Scott, "the raft hero" of River Trip '08

... and I live for Elevensies on THIS porch in Beaver, Utah... with these people

Kidz are the Shiz Carner!

Almost in tears 7 year old boy. "Teacher this morning my brother called me a lesbian. And I'm not."

Just after leaning over a 7 year old girl. "Mmmm your hair smells good Miss. C. what do you use? Garnier?"

8 year old boy stays after school to ask. "So....where do you sign up to be a teacher?"

Playing Simon says I tell the kids to put up their two pointer fingers. Boy in the back row instantly puts up both middle fingers and waits innocently for the next command! Note to self...teach kids what pointer fingers are.

I had just asked a couple kids on the way out what they thought the weather would be tomorrow. One boy was talking about what the weather man said and I said, "I don't know how much the weather man knows." A little girl stayed after class and said, "Teacher I know who knows everything about the weather, Heavenly Father and Jesus." Holla Mormons.

We were talking about voting and the elections this past week and I asked my students if they knew who the President was a few knew it was Bush. Then I asked if anyone knew who was President before Bush one kid raised his hand and said confidently "Abraham Lincoln."

A girl in my class read her journal aloud today. It was all about what her Thanksgiving is going to consist of. At the end she said, "P.S. I'm a veggiterian (veggi-ter-ian)." So naturally I asked if she was going to have turkey she replied with, "Oh yes, I am but just because it's Thanksgiving." She's very passionate about her veggiterianism.

A boy came up to me the other day and said, "Teacher my sister has such bad karma, but I always have good karma." (hello, he's 7 how does he know what karma means?)

Today one of my little ladies came up to me and gave me a hug, then she said, "Teacher you are so skinny, my Mom talks about it all the time!" What the....kids will tell you anything, it's awesome, no filter!

A little girl slapping her butt as she's walking down the hall says, "hey Miss C. look, I have a badonkadonk!" I laughed out loud.

I pulled a little girl out in the hall to talk to her about being a good friend. She says, "I'm trying but it's just so hard."

I had them write about love, these are the two best ones:

"Love is like a smoothy, at first you think I really like this and then you think, what have I gotten myself into."

"When you kiss someone, you just do whatever they do."

"Teacher do you believe in the Easter bunny?" I've never seen him, but I believe in him. "Really teacher? I think in college they should teach you that the Easter bunny is NOT real."

Little boy came up to me in the middle of class to report this piece of info. "Teacher did you know that I ate all of my fresh vegetables?"

"Teacher what's our time limit in the bathroom because when I'm going number 1 and 2 it takes me a long time."