DON'T DO IT!!!!!! (I warned you...)

First things first...
if you have anything important to do tonight
then do not
I repeat
DO NOT,
Under any circumstances,
no matter how much you are tempted,
DO NOT GOOGLE BABY OWLS!

You laugh, go right ahead....
but if you do it- you will get sucked in- like bad
like you can't quit clicking.

I was literally stuck
really stuck
in the MR's chair

(he's in bed)

I couldn't get out.
I even called for back up
I called "23-19! 23-19!" (for my Monster's Inc fans)

And in my house
we know that is the equivalent of
"MAN DOWN! MAN DOWN!"

So Chickadee comes running
(sliding in her socks, to the point
where she could almost not stop herself and
nearly ran into my Mac-
wherein this would be an entirely different post
probably entitled
"We'll miss her dearly....")

Where was I? Oh yeah,
so she comes up and I say- you have to see this

There is a cutie patootie 
(I just added patootie to My Dictionary so it
would stop giving me that darn red wiggly line)
last time, I swear...
There is a cute video of someone petting a baby owl (owlet sounds weird).
and it is so freakin' cute...
like really...I watched it 3 times!

See? Look at how cute he is!!!! This isn't the video- just a pic.

So then she said "oooo, what's that one?"
so I clicked on it.

and so it continued...

I am not a nature freak-
and if I were to not like owls period
it would be justified..

I saw a thing where the mama scooped up a
a...
...I can't say it....
it was...
yes, a baby squirrel!!!!

I know we have the whole circle of life-
I get it...but there are plenty of ugly animals that the mama owl could have
fed her babies!!

Back to baby owls...
it is like a train wreck and a tennis match all in one.
You start out
"OMG! That is the cutest thing I have ever seen!!!"

and it quickly turns into

"OMG!!! IS that even REAL???!?! That is horrible?"

Chickadee says they are cute when they are fuzzy and little
but then they grow a little bigger and watch you
when you sleep

and absorb your memories so
they can use them to plot against us
and take over the world

(I know, she's weird).

They really are kind of freaky. You will get
shivers as their stares penetrate your soul...

And I'm not talking about the cute
ones that are in children's literature,

It is because of these sometimes cute/sometimes eerie owls
that I have accomplished  *shinola* this evening!!

I did want to share something great:
Our cluster high school has a Service Learning Program. Friday they sent me some readers!! I had 3 of them.
So I chose 3 books
separated the children into their 3 reading groups and started rotating...

They were listening so nicely. Sitting there,
being such a great audience.
There were many emotions going through me-
pride, excitement, happiness...

and then the girl (pictured above)
finishes her book
I expect them to say things like what they say to each other
"That was very fluent."
"I enjoyed the tone of your voice."
"I liked how you were excited when you read."

But no
four of them shout out
"IS THAT AN A.R. BOOK?!?!?!"

There goes that pride feeling....

Well I am off to try my very very hardest to stay awake and read a very not so engaging insightful chapter of the EDI book for a meeting tomorrow.

Thanks again to everyone who entered the giveaway- Love me some Rafflecopter-
makes it super easy.

Have a great night!
 and remember, whatever you do
- DO NOT GOOGLE BABY OWLS....
hee hee

Winners!

Happy Monday Morning Chicas!!!

It is time to announce the winners and what they won!

Tanja T From Journey of a Substitute Teacher has won the $10 Tpt GC from Holly!!

Kiah has won her choice of any 2 items from Staci's Tpt Store.

and

Jen R. from The Teacher's Cauldron has won her choice of three items from  Reagan's Tpt Store!

I will email you ladies after lunch so that I can get your snail mail addresses! We need to get those naked coffees covered stat!!!
And I will give your info to the wonderful ladies who contributed!

Have a great day ya'll!

(Like my new hat?)

Check out my Pop Stars!!!

Raise your hand..

...how many of you have that one child who always raises his hand
right after you say raise your hand,
but right before you tell him why?

 Whenever one of my two who usually does that
shoots their hand up there before they know why they are doing it,
 I finish the sentence with things like

...if you want to clean the bathroom.
...if you would like extra homework tonight.
...if you are going to let Miss Squirrels have your ice cream at lunch today.

those hands usually shoot down pretty quick!
I love being the grown up!


I started getting the pictures ready of Abby's Pop Rockin' Writing Unit together when
my charger died...fortunately, my new one came in the mail on Saturday!!!
So here is the product of her wonderful creation and my firsties' imagination.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Linky

If there is one thing I can pride myself on - it is my commitment to honesty.
My parents often told me that I can be many things- but
a liar is not one of them.
Honesty is always the best policy.

Sometimes this bites me in the behind.

A few examples:

"Are you sure you want to wear THAT dress, sis?"
(when my sister was shopping for her wedding dress)

" Well, no, the new girl DIDN'T cut your hair the same way as the old girl did, mom."
(when our girl moved to another state)

"You LOVE me? Well, I think you are extremely special, too"
(when I was talking to the guy I didn't marry)

See how it can not work to your advantage at times?

Well here's another one of those times.

Holly has started a linky party. I love Holly. I want to support Holly.
But Holly wants us to show her the Icky part of our rooms. The part
that we usually crop out of the pics before we add them to our posts.
You know, the areas that are always behind you when you are taking pictures.

So I decided I was going to play.
BLARG!
So here is the good, the bad, and the ugly.....
(and I totally considered throwing that whole "honesty is the best policy" mantra out the window on this one)

So there is it.

I have such good intentions at times.
I tell myself I am going to move it after school or get it done on Sunday night
but sometimes it doesn't happen.
Honestly,
I don't know where the time goes!!!

Go link up with Holly:

There are a little over 24 hours left for the 250 Followers celebration! Go here to enter if you haven't!

250 Followers Giveaway!!!!

This is the giveaway that almost wasn't.

I was freaking out because I couldn't get into my email-
no email= no communication with the lovely ladies who are offering up the
goods for this giveaway!
(Let me rephrase)
the lovely ladies who are contributing to the celebration!

but I called out the troops and
we handled dat!
So, Yahoo! , don't try that  mess again- cause we ain't skerd!

Ok, now- It's Giveaway time!

And it is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

(You will see those numbers A LOT!)

My buds
Reagan, Staci, and Holly are helping me celebrate 250 followers!

"Celebrate good times, Come On!!"

All of the prizes are awesome, so I am not branding them as
First
Second
Third
There's just no way to choose because of the all the awesomeness!!!

But I will tell you that:

One person will win one $10 GC from Tpt from Holly!

A Second person will win two items (your choice) from Staci's Tpt store!

and

A Third person will win three items (your choice again) from Reagan's Tpt store!

And each one of those winners will also receive a cutie-pa-tootie coffee cozy
that made when I should have been grading papers or planning or something.

 (Told ya, you were gonna see that 1,2,3 quite a bit!)

(And I might be breaking out the baby blue jean eyeshadow and legwarmers and heading to FL
to sing a little Pat Benatar....time will tell)

And there are 4 ways to enter

1. Follow our blogs
2. Follow the Tpt stores
3. Add us to your blog list in your sidebar
4. Leave a comment on this post- about anything!

Use the RaffleCopter Below- Love the Rafflecopter!!!

That's it- 1, 2, 3!

I like for things to be easy.....life is too stressful as it is!
I have linked the blogs and stores below their contributions!

 Holly at Crisscross Applesauce in First Grade

(I have never seen her birth certificate but I have it on

 good authority  that this is her given name.....

....ok, I just made it up)

 Staci at Let's Teach Something

Staci's Tpt store

 Remember Staci's Grand-Tacular Giveaway?! 

I got to be a part of that, too! 

(We are cosmically linked by the unique way our mother's chose to spell our names......destined to NEVER find anything readily personalized.)

Reagan the Rock Star....really- she has her own music video! 

(Maybe she should go to FL and perform...hee hee)

 Reagan at Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

Reagan's Tpt Store

Don't forget to scroll up and follow me too- but if you are here, you probably already do!

The 'stache one totally cracks me up when someone

is drinking out of a cup with it on..

of course,

I am amused easily!

I think this one is going to end on Sunday night (the 22nd of April)

That way, whoever the winners are: they can find out first thing Monday morning...

It's always nice to have some good news on a Monday morning!

(Rafflecopter is supposed to be under here....)