well, i got 100% on my first quiz in class! i think that my daughter was more excited about it than i was! she helped me study before i left for class. she keeps saying, "Oh! wow! you have more? I am going to have to help you study a LOT!" lol.

on a side note, yesterday we were up at the school. my daughter has a friend that waits with my daughter and which ever parent shows up first waits until the other gets there so the kids arent standing alone. my daughter friend has an older brother who loves to play with my son.

well, friends mom shows up (who has become a good friend of mine because of the girls) and we are standing, talking, watching the kids play for a few minutes.

the school has a circle drive where you can pull in off the main road. there was a woman who had stopped and was loading 3 little boys into the car. after they got in? she freaking floored it and peeled out. she slammed on the brakes after about 30 feet, which had her stop right next to us and you could see that she was very irritated about something. then she drove away.

I was in total shock! i understand having a bad day, i get that, i have had my fair share. but under NO circumstances is it ever okay to 1) peel out with 3 children in the car 2) peel out in the drive to an ELEMENTARY school that has 2 cross walks going through it at dismissal!

some of the staff came over to get the story of what we saw. they know who the children are, but they think it was a BABYSITTER who was driving. omg. i would be beyond livid if someone was driving like that with my kids in the car!

Congrats Deb and good for your little tutor, job well done.

Oh yeah, that would have had me livid too. No matter how bad of a day someone might have had or what's going on, there's no excuse for it.

At our elementary schools, that person would have gotten a ticket and a visit from the police.
I got a warning once for getting to close to a bus who had just put it's lights on as I was pulling into a parking space.

Des - I am so proud of you - and I love the support you are getting from your daughter!!!!!!

@scteach - where have you been? I have missed you!!!!

So in one of my classes there is a blind man who uses a dog to help him navigate around campus. I am so INSPIRED by him for being in college and pushing his way for a higher education.

It makes me realize how easy my life is, and it really puts in perspective how even if I'm having a terrible day there is always someone who has it much worse than me.

I'm so PROUD of a complete stranger. It really just hits home.

Whyme - that makes me smile... When I was in college there was a girl who was blind too.. She was great and had a great attitude. I think she owes lots of that to her parents. They taught her never to give up even with a handicap. When she was a kid, they had her learn how to ride a bike, swim and she even knew how to play pool.

What she taught me was how to describe - When she was around I couldn't just say, it's a pretty day out - I would explain it to her - What made it pretty - the color of the sky, the size of the leaves on the tree, etc. It taught me to see much better. She taught lots of us to See..

If we would all be talking about something - such as a ring, she would say - let me see it - at first we were like - ok? and she would take the item in her hands and feel it - She saw it then, very well and she would describe to us what she was feeling.

She knew her way around the campus very well - except when she was drunk..but I don't think any of us saw too straight when we were drunk.

I always found her a great inspiration..and she was a great biology tutor too.

I am proud to be from the south, but some southerners needs to learn proper grammar. I understand some like to use short hand texting grammar, but saying "us" in an attempt to say yous or u's at they attempted, makes it sound like you're saying us (as in we the people). Please use an apostrophe between the u and s otherwise I am going to misread what you say.

I had a bad day today and I don't want to repeat this day.

Youngest son adopted a 3 year old female beagle/basset mix today. Her name is Remmy (short for Remington) but he doesn't like that name for a female dog. She knows her name well but he's trying to think of a name that is close enough to Remmy so the dog doesn't get confused but more female sounding. Any Suggestions?

leather---------jenny? penny? winnie? wendy? demi? mimi?

we adopted my lab from the pound and her name was blair. But we already had bear at home, so obviously that wouldnt work! poor dogs would have been so confused. So we renamed her bonnie. It has always suited her so well and she responds to it well.

My mom adopted a dog named winnie, but she renamed her penny.

we kept our new dogs name as clara. it just suits her really well.

Pictures please Leather
Names:
Rummy
Beni
Bunny
Lemmi
Perri

I think she would respond to 2 syllable names.

My in-laws are goofballs. I dropped my daughter off with them today, and as I was driving away, I got a text from my FIL.

"We have your daughter. If you want to see her again... well, wait till 2, I guess. Or 3. Maybe 4. No later than 5. Or 6."

They dropped her off at 5:30 lol

Oh Deb, they sound cute!

This sux, scheduled maintenance on ds this weekend and I'm already suffering ds withdrawal symptoms, is it possible I am addicted

Emme? (Emmie)

I thought the maintenance was done this morning.

Jemma


Again I'm lost, thought it was the weekend