June Currently...

I hope your day is winding down nicely. Mine is. I just enjoyed some brownies with ice cream and caramel on top. Not too shabby!!!

And I just finished my June Currently.... If you have a blog, link up with Farley!

Listening....all I can hear is the noise maker in the twins room. yes, they're three and a half and they still need/want the noise maker on. Probably need to break that habit this summer. So happy they're all asleep before nine o'clock. 1 point for mom...

Loving...four more days! I can do it!!!!

Thinking....My son has a lot of baseball to play this weekend, three games for sure, more if he wins. Can you say weekend at the ballpark?!

Wanting...I'm moving up from first grade. As I put it to my principal, I've taught first for 13 years. For half of those years, I had no children and it was great. But now, I have three young boys at home....and I can only answer so many questions in a day.....and I've already answered 200 by 7:30. I just don't have the energy... I'm hoping to move up to third but my principal isn't sure yet. I think/hope she'll let me know by Friday!!!

Needing...Oh, you know the drill...I need to write the comments and insert attendance...then I'm done!!!

Bucket List...1. Legoland-Definite because we're going to visit my brother in Dallas and we'll go while we're there.
2. Use the Whole Pool Pass-We have an awesome new aquatic park but the twins were only two last summer and they didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped so we paid like $40 for a pass we never. even. used.    sickening   But not so sickening that we didn't buy another pass this summer.
3. I have GOT to get in some adult time this summer. I love my boys to pieces but my sanity requires some time with my friends...oh yeah, and some time with my husband might be nice, too.

Ok, go link up...or not. Whatever. :)

Burn Ban and July Currently

So, how are your plans for the fourth coming along? Well, ours are not as exciting this year. We usually do fireworks together in our driveway while LOTS of neighbors do theirs. It's pretty fun! Unfortunately, this year our town/county is under a Burn Ban because we've not had enough rain this summer. So...no fireworks for us. No fun, but I sure don't want any fires, so understandable. Instead, we'll have some friends and family over and play with sprinklers in the yard. It's gonna be a hot one! So, speaking of the fourth, I just finished my July Currently....linking up with Farley from


Link up with Farley, if you haven't already, which it seems MANY already have! Oh yeah, and read her rules! :)

Ok, so following the rules...my all time favorite book to read aloud is Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present. (Oh yeah, and I'm anal, and I can't type book titles without underlining them) If you haven't read this story, you must! Harvey is a little boy who lives in a hut at the top of Roly-Poly mountain. He doesn't have much money, so when Santa finds one present left in his sack when he gets back to the North Pole and realizes it's for Harvey, he knows he has to get it to him, even though the reindeer are sick. The end of the story (I won't ruin it) lends itself to a great story starter! I look forward to reading this story every year.
And my goto professional book is the book that is the Reading Recovery training manual. It has great ideas of how to teach the "hard to reach" kids. The ones who don't get it. I pick it up at least once every year after I've had a not so successful guided reading lesson.
So there ya go! I hope to hear your comments and I hope you have a safe fourth of July!!!

Linky Party???

Ok. So I've secretly wanting to join a Linky Party since I've started this blogging thing. No problem, you think. Just join one. Well it's not that easy. I do consider myself fairly computer literate, but this has been puzzling me because I couldn't figure out if there was an image, such as in Farley's May Currently linky party, how do I type on it and make it my own. I've learned that blogger has no such editing tool, so I've just been waiting for someone else to ask that question and then I could just tag along and figure out the answers. But none of you seem to have that question. Smarties!!! So I just had to give up and admit defeat and ask. And thank you so much to Kerri at Ms. Kerri and her Krazy Kindergarten who took the time to help me figure this out! Go visit her, too! She is so helpful!! :)

So now, I'm hoping to join Farley's linky party. I encourage you to link up, too, and if you have trouble and have silly questions like me, think nothing of it. I'll be glad to help if I can! :)

I'm going to ignore the white background on the page. I'm anal and that kind of thing bothers me, but I'm full of blessings remember, so I'm not going to care about that.

Hey, go visit Farley and that helpful Kerri! :)