Freaky Friday

For our Kindergarten Storybook Parade, I threw together a costume at the last minute.  Since I couldn't find the book for my original idea, I decided to dress as the spider from Diary of a Spider.  Since the parade started about a half hour after school started, I began class with my costume on and accidently kept hitting things (and some kiddos) with my extra legs.  Whoops!  Good thing they were just stuffed socks!

Sadie and Gunnar reluctantly dressed up for a few minutes.  I actually picked up these cat costumes this summer with Traci.  Always a planner....

Happy Halloween!

Say Cheese!

One of the "perks" of being a teacher - at least in this district - is having a school photo taken every year. I really enjoy seeing the students' photos come in, but I still cringe, like I did in the "old" days, when I look at mine. Even though it's not horrible, I always see the flaws others don't. But, I guess that's the nature of the beast. So, without further ado - my 08-09 school year photo:

Hungry?

I found this photo from a blog I was reading and it really cracked me up.  Be watchful of furry thieves if you put your pumpkins outside this year!  Ha ha!

On a random note, I really miss squirrels.  I don't think we have squirrels out here.  But we do have a lot of bats.  Perfect at this time of year!

Little Rays of Sunshine

So it's been 2 weeks.

Two weeks since my last blog.

I've been dealing with stuff....mostly school, but other stuff too.

Thankfully, not everything is doom and gloom.  In between worries are little rays of sunshine - like going to dinner with friends or spending an afternoon with my loyal pups.

I came home the other day to find a rainbow right off my back porch (it's kind of faint in the picture, but it's there!).  What I want to know is where's my pot of gold?!?

Or today, when I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my thoughtful hubby.  Funny thing is, my substitute para (my para took the week off) also had flowers delivered today.  So, I took a picture of our beautiful bouquets.  Thanks, Babe!

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Look who's celebrating a birthday today!

Happy Birthday, Noa!!

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Saturday's Scene

Isn't funny how the weekend turns out? Sometimes I never know what one weekend will look like from the next. For instance, last Saturday I woke up to my 2 friendly dogs, this Saturday I woke up to 3 friendly dogs: Sadie, Gunnar, and Miko!  I'm dogsitting for Jen and Perry who are away for the weekend.  

After running my long list of errands, I headed over to Torii Beach for a birthday party for Emily and MaryAnn.  It was a perfect day for the beach.

Here are the birthday girls:

Some of my best gal pals in Oki:

Unfortunately, the day wasn't all sunshine and dog paws.  On the way home from the beach, a motorcyclist t-boned the Capa.  Anyone who has been to Okinawa knows the roads are frequented by motorcycles and scooters.  They have a whole different set of rules here for 2-wheeled vehicles and it can be challenging at first to be on the lookout for them.  Anyway, both the motorcycle's driver and me were fine, but the Capa has a small dent.  Thankfully, there were some very helpful folks who witnessed the whole thing and the military police were extremely helpful.

See the dent near the bottom?

Up close - ouch!