Lost and Found

It's been quite some time. I have been busy and getting lazy on the puter. Just taking time to read stuff. So I've downloaded all the pics but haven't made any slide shows or anything. I am supposed to be spending all my spare time planning my lessons as class starts in a little over a week, but my mind wants to shut down when I get home this time of year. My section is full so that makes me happy. I hope I keep it that way!

Well we've just been getting back in the groove since vacation. Nothing really exciting has happened. Tonight was back to school nite for Tristan. We took his supplies up there and met his new teacher. I was so happy when I left that place! She sounds like a wonderful teacher and the kind of personality that Tristan needs. She still uses tables instead of the desks. Said she wants to make sure the parents get any papers she sends home and since they are still babies, they lose things in their desks easily and she has to spend lots of time helping them clean them out. So she uses tables and they have a basket system for their supplies. That right there made me happy...we didn't get paperwork until after the fact last year. And his homework would remain in his backpack for weeks. Oh and she says she does hands on learning so they work with blocks and as groups in class. She said she won't give tons of homework and she will give us some ideas for reading. She said they are babies and we are going to work on the basics. She gave us a business card, told us she is up until midnite every nite and we can call her anytime. I told her about Tristan not liking loud noises and she wrote it down and told him that he could just come to her anytime he was bothered by noise. She would help him out. I just about hugged and kissed her right there. She is young and very pretty. Hopefully I am not getting myself all excited in anticipation of Tristan having a miraculous change about school. But he will get to have lunch, recess, PE and music which he didn't get to do last year. So I hope he will find it way more fun and his new teacher nurturing so he will mind her. I am praying for him to find his nitch and be able to participate without problems. Yay! I think I am in love with this teacher. Oh and another good thing...the lunches are all automated now and I can pay for them from my computer at home. That's a big WOOOO HOOOO! No more notes about how my kid has charged too many times and will have to go on PB&J sandwiches.

On a funnier note...Chance and I have a thing about stuff getting put up and never found again. We have way too much stuff for this house so we have to do routine "spring" cleaning to keep the clutter out. For years, I get so frustrated. Well first, I am completely happy that my husband hates clutter and takes the time to fix that problem. I am so grateful for that. But in the process, many of my things get "put up" and I never see them again or it takes months to find them. For instance, this year, I bought a brand new pair of shoes for our commencement ceremony. I was so proud of myself for buying a new pair 2 whole weeks before the event. Usually I am shopping the nite before and stressing cuz I can't find what I like. So this year I find a pair. Bring it home and place the bag on the kitchen table. The next morning, in a cleaning round, the bag is moved before I can get my hands on it and I could not find the shoes until 2 days after the event took place. So for like 2 weeks I search and search for these shoes. I find them when I was doing laundry, at the bottom of a hamper full of clothes. Still in the box and in the bag I brought home. Go figure. So it is these kinds of experiences that frustrate me so much at times. I love my husband and his cleaning skills, but man...I like to have my stuff. And needless to say, I really vent my frustrations when I am looking for my stuff.

I say all this to tell you my funny story about Chance. This past Monday evening, I went in the bathroom and did the usual washing face and brushing teeth. I had worked late shift and was very tired. I go to bed. Chance follows much later and goes to brush his teeth. He can't find his tooth brush. I say it's right there. He says for me to show him cuz he can't find it. Starts asking me what I did with it. I say nothing, why would I mess with it. He gets more and more frustrated and starts searching through everything. He says if I'm playing a trick it was funny and stop it. I say I am in bed trying to sleep why would I do something like that. I would find something better to trick him with anyway. So he ends up just as angry and frustrated as I get. I am sorta laughing cuz it's funny he's feeling my pain, but I tell him no one would do that. He starts saying that someone in the house did it, and we go thru why that is not possible.

Then he says someone broke in and stole it and is using it at a crime scene. I ask him if he is aware of any new crimes taking place and mention the police might find it funny that the killer would leave his tooth brush at the scene. I doubt there are many criminals who make sure they have good dental hygiene while on a job. He goes to bed frustrated and with dirty teeth. I tell him just go to the store in the morning and get a new one. No big deal. He tells me I would be throwing my usual fit if it were me. I say no, I would wonder and think about it alot, but it is much different than not finding the shoes. I can't just go out and buy the new shoes again. (OH and I did go back and try to buy the same pair but they only had the one pair in my giant size.) A toothbrush I can easily repurchase with no pain involved.

The next morning, he keeps on and on. Calls me at work and still mentions it's a conspiracy and someone came in with the intention of taking his brush. He's going to post a sign that says if it's returned there would be no questions asked. He had bought the new one but could not get over it. We even discussed how the window guys could've gotten it but he decided no, he had watched them the whole time. Can you say OMG?????

Tonite, I am in there doing the routine. I get under the sink to look for my soap refill to refill the soap dispenser. And guess what I find?? Right by the mouthwash where I had mentioned for him to look 4 days ago. Oh no, he would never put his brush under the sink!!!!! Well buster, there it was. So I show him and he starts saying that I put it there all along. OMG!!!! I am just giving him a big whatever dude! So he remembers that he said no questions asked and he stopped giving me a hard time. Now how's that for an experience????? Do you see why I color my hair now???? He is such a mess. I just don't even know what to say. Man, it's a good thing I love him that's all I've got to say!

Well I don't have much else to say. I have to get to bed soon. I only had about 4 hours sleep - I sat up watching Big Brother after dark on shotime last nite. And I have to get up early to go to a "Stamping Up" party in the morning. Not sure what I am going to do but they tell me I will be making a journal and will have fun. There will be some crazy chicks from work there. Not all of the usual ones on my myspace, but others. We have lots at the college.

Cya later dudes.