This is what Ryan should have done with his Audi

An Amazing Acomplishment

Question of the Week

A student from school came walking out of the boy's bathroom while I was walking down the hall the other day.
"Miss Enge, I have a problem, " he said as he stuck out his razzberry-blue colored tongue.
I queried, "You've been eating blue candy?"
"No. My pen exploded in my mouth. Will I die?"

DMN Weekly Favorite

I saw this Sunday a week ago and have been meaning to comment on it since. This is an amazing phenomenon in a society. It is still boggling my mind that it wasn't a hidden transition, and it was so accepted (at least how this article presents it).
Enjoy!
Dallas Morning News_As Albanian women have gained liberties, the need for female heirs to live as males has dwindled...

Finally

We DID buy a camera, but have been lax with sharing our shots from our past few months. We have been pretty busy and have had company and projects going on at our house.

In March, my sister-n-law, her mom and our niece came to visit. We went to the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens. In the second pictures, you might be missing the 7th monkey hiding behind Michele.

We went out to Colorado over Spring Break. Ryan's family always amazes me at their cohesiveness. Here is a part of the clan in our family outing to the 'zeum. We also got to meet our newest nephew and watch him learn to limbo...

We started a small tiling project in our laundry room. Notice the new tile, ceiling (no more popcorn!), baseboards, and color! We also redid our downstairs bathroom. We like it.

Summer

But only for one day and only for me. I had the perfect summer day, sleeping in, going to lunch with friends, napping and reading through an afternoon thunderstorm.
Staff development for summer school is tomorrow, so my rest is short-lived.
What is your perfect summer day?

Spelling is Important

One of my kids, while working on a story, wrote that his mom didn't like his teacher because the teacher was "funny."
I pulled out the bilingual dictionary, looked up what I thought he meant, and asked if that was the word he was looking for. Yes, he was looking for funny. "But Miss, that is what I wrote."
I had him look carefully at the spelling of his "funny" and he realized he had inadvertantly replaced the u in funny with a nice a.
Our bilingual dictionary stopped just short of that slang word, so I had to show him the word instead.
And yes, fannies are funny, but fanny teachers are the best kind.