Just can't wait....

To show you my "Very Homemade Christmas" post! It's gonna be a good one! Coop and I have "moved on up" to a precious little rent house. LOTS more room to stretch out. And even better, lots of room to decoraatteeee!!!!!

In the meantime, prayers would be appreciated. School's out Friday. Kids are insane already today (Wednesday). They were insane a week ago. There's not enough Ibuprofen in the world to deal with crazed, hormonal, no-Santa fearin' 6th graders.

I love what I do. Really. I mostly love it for a week in March, the months of June and July, and 2 weeks in December. Haha, kidding, kidding. Sort of.

I got this e-mail today and got a kick out of it. Sing it, too, even if you're not a teacher. Don't forget your East Texas 'twang'!!!



(to the tune of "Walking' in a Winter Wonderland")


Children scream, they won't lis-in'.

When they go, we won't miss 'em'.

In all of this pain, we try to stay sane,

Workin' in an element'ry school.



Christmas comes, they're excited,

Though our nerves, they've ignited.

They're off of the walls, they run in the halls,

Workin' in an element'ry school.



In the lunchroom we can hear them yellin'

And we know that they are really wound.

Someone hits the other, says "I'm telling"

And that is when our heads begin to pound.



Pretty soon, we'll be restin'

Cause our nerves, they've been testin'

We're happy it's clear.

It comes once a year.

Christmas in an element'ry school!


--Casey