20 Years

So this week my class time has been consumed with making all the Thanksgiving crafts you can think of! One of our activities was to color a leaf and tell what you are thankful for. When we do these activities, I also do them! They are so much fun, and I love to color. I sit with the students and we all color, talk, laugh, and make a mess!

When it came for us to write down what we were thankful for; my students looked at me and asked me how I learned to write so fast! I was laughing and told them that I have had a lot of years of practice. They then asked me how much practice....I had to think......and then came up with the number 20. I told them I have been writing for about 20 years...they all said "wow! Mrs. Perkins, you are old"! They kept talking about it for a few more minutes and I went back to my desk trying to process how old I really am :( . Sad day for Mrs. Perkins!

My Morning

Well today is Tuesday! What a great day it started out to be until I got to school...... Once I got here and got myself organized I thought I would run to the bathroom before my Before School Care duty started. I went in and noticed a small cockroach in the corner of the last stall, but thought he was dead, so I proceeded on to the stall on the other side of the bathroom. Once I was done and heading for the door there it was! On the door was a gigantic cockroach just waiting for me to go over to it so it could eat me! I was stuck in the bathroom with two cockroaches, one could have been dead, but then I started thinking that the dead one looked a little funny; probably because the bigger one ate some of him to prove to me what damage he could do! I felt like I was in one of those movie dungeons where there are skulls and rats all over the place! The only thing I had to defend myself was paper towels. So I took one, crumpled it into a ball and threw it at the gigantic cockroach, but then I remembered that I cannot aim to save my life, and this was definitely one of those situation where I needed it to save my life! After several failed attempts to hit the cockroach he finally got off the door and walked over to the wall, where I had 2.5 seconds to make my escape! I went for it and was FREE!!!!

About ten minutes later I was in Before School Care sitting with a three year old on my lap reading a story and having a great time, when all of a sudden he started throwing up on his lap that was on top of my lap! I quickly closed his legs to try to save my skirt, and ran him over to the trash can where he continued to throw up! Poor little guy...he went home and I started my school day....yup, it has been crazy!