Yes, I'm Here

It's been a little while since I've posted. Life has been busy and crazy, so I haven't had much of a chance to update. The last couple of weeks of school was crazy! My kids were bonkers and I'm surprised that I crammed as much learning in to their brains as I did. I hope they actually learned something. We will see. Now I am on vacation and it is really nice. The nice thing about this Thanksgiving is that we got the entire week of Thanksgiving off, so 9 whole days! YAY! I am visiting at my parents' house. The days definitely fill up quickly. My mom and I have been scrap booking like crazy. I did 7 pages in my book and finished my Christmas album, so I've really been doing a lot. I never really have time to scrapbook unless I'm on a long vacation. It is nice to get it a little more caught up. The rest of the week will be filled with playing with that little cute nephew of mine since they are coming today. But, I'm sure it will be a lot more of relaxing and enjoying time with family before I have to go back to the real life of working.

Another Race Down

I did another race today. It was a 5K (3.1 miles). It was a race that benefited all of the Elementary Schools and Middle Schools that feed in to the High School in our area. We had about 150 people from our school. I was so surprised that so many people came out to do the race. A lot of my students and their families were there participating because they knew that I would be there participating too. It was fun to see my students outside of school and to be able to participate in this with them. Most of them did the 1 mile run, but there was one student who ran the 5K with me. He kept his eye on me the whole time and wanted to pass me and beat me. Well, at about mile 2 he did that. He was so excited that he beat his teacher! I know I'm competitive, but it was really cute to see how happy he was that he ran with his teacher and beat her! I didn't really do this race do my personal best. I really did it to support the area and the school. It was just a bonus that I've been running and starting doing races. I thought it was great to have so many people getting together for a common cause and promoting fitness too! Even though I wasn't working on my personal best race, I did have a personal best race. I ran it in 34 minutes. I was really proud of that since the majority of the race was all uphill. I don't have anymore races on the horizon, but I'm sure I'll find one soon!

Oh the honesty

This week I have been sick and not really myself all week, so I really feel like I haven't even been nice to my kids. In fact today I had the thought that I didn't really even like myself right now. I'm going to work on that, but when you are sick and you have to repeat yourself 5,000 times a day it gets to be a little trying. I do have a funny story for all of you first grade fans out there. One of my kids came in on Monday and gave me a bag of candy. Here's the how the conversation went.

Student: Here Ms. McKenzie, I brought this for you.

Ms. McKenzie: Oh, that is nice that you are giving me some of your Halloween candy. Most kids don't like to share their candy.

Student: I just brought you the things I don't like.


Hahaha!! I'm still laughing at that conversation. I love the honesty of the kids at this age. They totally tell you like it is. I can appreciate that!