Public School What a Joy!

Do you remember those impatient moms. You know what I mean. They have their nose every where. Needing to know information before it is even available. Well I have become one of those parents. I never wanted to but perhaps it was in me all along. My oldest son started 6th grade yesterday in our local "Public School" . You see he has been in a Lutheran school for the last 3 years. We Lutheran teachers make sure our families are well informed. I have come to expect this. Not this year. I never got to even meet his teachers until after school the first day. I went to register him on their new student registration night. I figured I would at least get a school lunch menu and a schedule but nothing. So yesterday afternoon I the pushy mom that I am. I walked back to each teacher and introduced myself. I also barged into the office asking for information on the lunch program etc. Well now that I have it I found out that the principal will be explaining everything to the students today and they will be bringing home the information tonight. So now I feel a little sheepish. Perhaps I should have been a little more patient. Next year I will know what to expect and it wont be so scary....For me.
By the way my son had a fabulous day and loved every minute of it. He even signed up for band.

Two year old frenzy!

Monday night around 10:00 I received a phone call from DSS. They had a little two year old boy that was found wandering the highway. They needed a safe place for him to stay until they found out who he belonged to. So we opened our home to him. He was a large two year old. We didn't know his name until midday on Tuesday. He arrived at 2am sound asleep. When he woke he was timid but excited to play with Rosco who was happy to fetch the ball that was being chucked across the room. We soon discovered that he could say a few words and loved to run. He ran every where he went. Needless to say I am tired. He went back home this morning. I am glad to see him return to his grandma who loves him and I pray he will not wander off again.

When it Rains it Pours

Last night was our anual staff picnic and it was my turn to host. Well we were hoping for nice weather so that the kids could swim and the adults could sit around the picnic tables and visit. God however had different plans. About 6:00 the sky opened up and it dumped over 4" of rain our our very dry land. Needless to say the party had to be held in our little house. We had over 25 people in our house. Well it rainrd so hard there was about two feet of water running through our campground. Here is what I found this morning.

We haven't seen standing water in a very long time.

There are lots of tire tracks all through out the park. This is the worst one.

All of the gravel was washed off the road and gathered towards the lowest end of the park. There will have to be lots of redistribution in the up coming days and weeks.

Here is the storage shed. I didn't know that there was a pond in there!

I wonder how many tools and things are buried under this muddy soupy mess? This happened to us last year and we lost a ton of things. But we had hail last year so there was more damage to buildings RV's and such. Along our interstate I heard there was soft ball size hail. Some of our campers got their windows broken out while driving. I am glad I was safe at home when this storm hit.

It's Getting There.

Well this is what my room looks like after two days of cleaning and throwing away garbage.

I actually found the floor so that I could lay my carpet.

My tables are almost ready for the name tags. In case if you were wondering yes they are written on. I am going to start my year with a frog theme.

This is my garbage pile. It will be gone by tomorrow. Hey don't laugh it will.

This is my closet. Clean and organized. I even have the shelves labeled.
Who knew that getting ones classroom organized and clean would be so much work.
Stay tuned for the final transformation next week. I will show you how the room looks on the first day of school!