It's beginning to look like Fall!

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year! When living in Australia I really missed have 4 seasons. Of course they have 4 seasons there, but not like here! Everything is green all year long there,

so no leaves changing colors and falling off the trees. In summer it's hot, in winter it's less hot, but not freezing cold like it gets here. And there certainly were never any snow days...at least not where we lived by the beach! 

I love fall in the south! Pumpkins, mums, beautiful colors, cool crisp air, and I can't forget candy corn and peanuts. It certainly is one of my favorite times of the year! It's finally starting to feel like fall at our house. My mom came to visit this weekend and brought lots of fall decorations to let me use to decorate since we are hosting thanksgiving at our house this year. We also visited a local nursery to pick the perfect pumpkins for our porch. 

We also got a lot of things checked off our "DIY Dream Home" checklist and got a few big projects started. More on that to come!

writing it down

 A very wise man, also known as my daddy, reminded me yesterday that I needed to write things down. I used to be so good at that. The whole reason I started blogging was during my first year of teaching. I remember calling my parents and telling them some of the ridiculous things that happened in my first grade classroom those first few years of teaching and he said I should really write some of those things down, and I did for a while.

The situation that I was telling him about last night happened yesterday. Fridays are crazy in my kindergarten classroom. I mean, seriously I have no idea if its what they feed them for breakfast or what but I feel like Fridays are always crazy! The day ended as usual dismissing the bus riders and daycare kids followed by me walking my car riders out front. A few minutes later a lady from one of the daycares came out to find me to ask if one of my little ones was here today. I said of course and that I sent her to daycare at dismissal. Well she didn't make it there. This particular little one is a little bit...or a lot on the sneaky side. Well she decided she was going to ride the school bus home even though she's never been a bus rider! With the help of one of our parapro's I started running and chasing down buses as they were pulling out of the parking lot, finally we found her. And boy did she get to hear my mean voice and I'm pretty sure she got to hear her grandma's mean voice too when she got home because she wasn't too happy when I called to tell her what happened.

There is never, never a dull moment in Kindergarten! That is what i've learned so far this year. My kids are a wild, crazy bunch but can be oh, so sweet when they want to. Even though teaching can be a challenge and sometimes I want to pull my hair out, but they really are amazing little people that I'm so thankful to have in my life for the next 8 months or so. I'm sure I will have many more stories I should write down over the next several months!