2nd Grade @ MindSay 
Emily was not in my class this year, so I was really scared. It ended up, alright, though. I had the nicest teacher EVER this year. I don't think I'll ever have a nicer teacher. Mark was in my class this year! I was sooooo happy!
My two most memorable moments from this grade would be...
Every morning when we came in the classroom we would walk up to the board and answer some kind of question, usually by filling up a bar graph of some sort. Well one morning, Mark came in after me, and the question for that day was to fill in a space under your favorite cursive letters. From what I remember, the choices were: A, C, E, G, H, R, and Z. Well, I picked H, since that was the first letter of his last name. He looked at me, and then he took the marker from my hand and he put A as his favorite letter. A is the beginning of my last name. Coincidence? I think not, hehe.
My second memorable moment would be the time when Selina, Mark, Matt, and I were the only ones left in the lunchroom after lunch - you know, just finishing up eating. Well, Mark and Matt was about two tables away from us. So Selina and I were just sitting there eating and talking. We were just about to get up and throw our lunches away, when she asked me, whispering, "Hey, who do you like? I promise I won't tell anyone - and if you tell me, I'll tell you who I like." So, guess what I did? I told her. How stupid I was, hehe. So, I told her, Mark and Matt - and there they were - boy, was I dumb back then! Her face lit up with expression and she smiled, and replied back with, "You do!?" and so I just said yeah. Then, she yelled across the lunchroom, "Mark, Matt! Alison likes you!" So, there I was, completely embarrassed, when I saw one of them smiling and the other one just looked dumbfounded. I'm still not sure what to think about it up to this day...
It was a pretty fun grade, though. A lot of good memories.
Wow! Can you all believe that we are heading into the start of our 2nd full week of school, our 3rd actual week of school here in the Uncanny Land of the Fanatical Freaks!
An update is called for!!! I will start with my beautiful budding blossom of a daughter!
DeLaney is currently loving Third Grade! Who would have thought!?! This from my daughter who struggled with reading and spelling! If it wasn't for our lovely buggy invasion last week she was to read at Mass. Since I refused to let her go back to school with a red, sore head and missed reading at Mass, she gets to read next month during the 3rd grade and I think 8th grade Mass! We marked something very important on the calandar as a high point in Mz Drama Queen's life last Friday. DeLaney recieved her very first 100% on a spelling test! She was so proud of herself! She even convienced Donnie into calling me at home to inform me of her wonderful achievement! (Donnie B. is the school adminstrator/Superentendent/Principal) DeLaney's goal is to keep at least an A/B average in spelling and attempt to compete in the Winnebago (both Public and Mission) Schools Spelling Bee this year! Not to mention DeLaney is joining the Chess Club! It meets in the mornings before their weekly Mass and once the school year progresses it will start meeting in the mornings from 7:30am to start of school at 8 am. (Kids are at the Church basement getting breakfast at 7:30 anyway) Something happened this year that amazed DeLaney! She started a new school and right off the bat both the girls and the boys made her feel welcomed! No words as: "Go back from where you came from. White Bitch. Cracker Jacker. Your not indian get away from me. Your not hispanic get away from me. White Whore." You name it my lovely sensitive daughter has been called it from TX and OK to this shit ass school district where we live at and I graduated from no less! I am so glad I decieded to put them up at the Indian Mission Catholic School! Plus unlike the Catholic School in the city we were going to send the kids, the Priests here totaly accept that I am a Celtic Spiritualist studying to become a Druid and I am teaching my kids both my ways and my mother's which is a hodge podge of Catholic! The nuns are pretty kewl with it also! The youngest and newest one (I think Asian Culture but I am not sure) loves my ink and flipped up her head thingy and showed me the ink she got before she made the decision to join the nunnery! How kick ass is that!
Now on to my lanky lean machine of son!
Coltin is really enjoying Second Grade this year! So much to the point he is putting his school uniforms on after he goes to bed so he is ready to go first thing in the mornings! I have never had to worry about Coltin's grades, he sucks information in like he is dying of thirst! Sometimes I worry for him because there is going to be a time he is going to get bored and nothing the school or I are going to keep him occupied! Coltin's teacher is in an electric wheel chair and uses a microphone to project her voice and she gets the biggest kick out of Coltin; because her chair locks up on occasion and instead of running down the halls like so many of the other kids do, Coltin tries to fix it for her! She found out the hard way, do NOT keep tools in your room around Coltin! He will attempt to take anything and everything apart to try and understand how it works! He managed to get her battery pack case unscrewed with out her even knowing about it today! She was laughing so hard when I picked the kids up from school I thought she was going to laugh herself right out of her chair! Again Coltin experienced nothing but positive and friendly kids at this school. This past year finishing up in my old school which is now a ghetto school was hell on my poor boy. Every time he turned around he was getting beat up or harassed and when I finally told him to start hitting back, the Principal was to scared to disicple the other kids but went after my boy. Her white ass needs to go back to a primarily white school district if she can't handle non indian kids the same way she handles the indian kids! If my kids stayed in that school district I would have been one very rich MILF! Coltin has always made friends with upper classmen and this year he is exstatic to have made friends with the majority of the kids in his and his sister's classes! Coltin has also signed up for the Chess Club and can't wait to take on Daddy, Papo, Grandpa Bear (step grandpa's name is Burdell but he looks like a Bear), Uncles Tracy and Will and if I talk him into it........mayhap Uncle Na Na if we ever get out to NY! And my boy is reading the second reading in tomorrow's Mass. Thankfully both my kids know better to ask Mamma to come to church more than maybe 1 time a month! The sixth grade teacher (I went to diabetic classes with her and her daughter) is a lil put out that I won't go to the School's Mass but I don't care! My Pagany Heathen ass is NOT going and Coltin completely understands this because in truth he is chafing under the fact he has to even go let alone read!
This is the update of school ...........for now! I am so happy my kids are enjoying school this year! Now if only I could get them to enjoy picking up their rooms with out a battle or negoitating!