September

Look how cute the view out my classroom is! It is so cute I have to use window time as a behavior incentive or my students would spend their whole day counting the fish and looking for frogs. Silas's ALERT class went to Charleston to look at architecture and trudge around a salt marsh. For a minute they were short a chaperone and I thought I might get to go, but no dice. Rory was supposed to go to The Stinky Cheese Man play but apparently the cast all got sick and it was canceled. We had conferences. Silas's report was "Don't schedule one, he is fine." Rory's was good. He did well on MAP and now I think I get to teach him for an hour and a half once a week as part of a new first grade advanced thinking skills program we are piloting. (Why?) But I kind of think it will be fun to teach him and get to know some of the kiddos in his grade.

We surprised Denise for her 70th and I think we pulled it off and she was pleased! The kids did charades of funny memories and that was the highlight! We all got respective Meemaw/Mom/Denise tattoos, and played Bingo with some of her favorite things. Anne and Mike came and Libbi sent some of her amazing cookies!

We went camping at Myrtle Beach State Park with the Venturas. It was more of a check-it-off-the-list thing for our kids than a real act of passion on either families' part. Silas and Rory have both camped but possibly too long ago to really remember. It rained all Friday so we only stayed one night but that suited us and it turned out to be perfect weather. When we pulled up at our camp site it was surrounded by other campers and there were smokers and dogs and hardly even trees. I was thinking stormy things, but called the park office and they let us trade for one that was perfect! Here we are moving our unrolled but not constructed 20 man tent. There were beach walks, and walking stick adoptions, and a nature class, and a found jawbone, and racoon visitors, and smores, and playgrounds and Uno.

We visited the Williamsons and went to Denver Downs. There was so much we only did about 1/4 of it, but we are wimpy and it was hot so that was enough. Back at their house there were new sheep and bunnies and goats that only I enjoyed because Rory was preoccupied in the hot tub and Silas was preoccupied being a zombie in the massage chair drugged up on Benadryl. 

 

Finally, here are my amateur cross stich offerings to family and friends.