March 26th, 2011
Last year I brought half of my things in my home to Andrew’s school for their diversity fair. The teacher in charge had asked if I could do it again this year as well. I said sure, I could bring the other half of my stuff since I had only brought half this time.
When I had to go to Andrew’s school during the summer time to get his classes taken care of and his books picked up I ran into the teacher again. She asked if I was still going to help her this year. Of course just keep me updated on when it is and what I need to do.
So in January I got an e-mail from the teacher telling me about the diversity fair. In the e-mail she mentioned that the museum room was all mine. What?? Last year most of the stuff in the room was mine but other families brought things in as well. This year she wanted me to do it all by myself.
So that meant I spent a long time online researching everything I had. I then made descriptions onto little tags telling about all the items I was brining in. You never realize how much stuff you have until you do this.
In the library some of the kids had their own displays and they wore traditional clothing and told about the countries they represented.
They had the drum line do a few songs, got the crowd going
They had a few guests help with songs, speak to the kids about diversity
Had the drum line help out with the karate part of the show
Then off to the museum to see things from around the world
They had this bagpiper come back to walk the halls as he played his bagpipe. 
I also put together things for a poster. The students and teachers were to pick a skin colored heart and put one word to describe themselves.
Andrew put Awesome on his heart, yes he is awesome.
After school some of the teachers and students made a circle around the flag for
A Prayer Around the Flag event.
Another successful diversity day, now to think about what to do next year.
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March 25th, 2011
Here is a very shaky video of the last concert Andrew’s band had. Crossing fingers it uploads o.k.
Playing the song March Zuma
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March 16th, 2011
Once again spring has arrived here in Central Texas. The weather has been warmer than usual and I am hoping that this doesn’t mean that summer is going to be extra hot this year.
I love spring time when the flowers bloom -achoo,
the trees start getting their green leaves back -achoo,
the birds return- achoo
The allergy medicine is taken constantly, now all it needs to do is have a good rain. Come on California stop hogging up all the rain we need it to wash out the pollen in the air.
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March 11th, 2011
I have never heard of a shoe box parade before, have you? I even had to Google it to see what it was. Well it is exactly what it sounds like. The first graders in Emily’s class had to decorate a shoe box with a Texas Theme. Should be easy enough to do. Em and I hit up Michaels for a few supplies and we got to decorating.
I didn’t get too many good pictures of the parade itself, here are a couple of students from Em’s class pulling their shoe boxes.
I forgot to take pictures of the sides of the box so everyone could see. So I thought when she brought it home I would take some more pictures of her box. When I went to pick her up she wasn’t carrying out her box. The first grade teachers had picked out some boxes to be on display in the hallway and Em’s was picked to be one of them. Pretty cool but that means you have to wait to see the rest of the box.
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February 28th, 2011
A friend of mine had another little girl recently and she allowed me to take pictures of her girls.
Here are a few shots I took.
It was so much fun practicing how to do newborn shots. The hardest part was trying to get all the girls together looking at my camera in the shot where all the girls are lying down together. Thanks Elaine for letting me practice on your kids!
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February 25th, 2011
Blowing dandelion seeds and making wishes.
The monkey shows off her skills on the bars:
Heading back home by the creek before it gets dark.
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February 18th, 2011
Mommy.
Mommy?
What?
Can we go to the park?
No, I have to work. Maybe when I have a day off.
Sigh, o.k.
Mommy? Do you have today off????
Yes.
Can we go to the park then? You said, remember?
So off to the park we went, just Em and I to feed the ducks.
I remember this guy from last time.
Hey ducks, lets pretend we are airplanes o.k.?
This one couldn’t wait to join Em in pretending they were airplanes.
Mom.
Mommy?
What?
Could we go to the park again?
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February 14th, 2011
This year was a bit different, instead of an afternoon party Em’s class had a Valentines Day Breakfast. I don’t know what is worse for a kid. To have all the fun in the beginning of the day and regular work the rest of the day or to anxiously wait till later in the day to celebrate. To me the kids didn’t care one way or another they were just as happy to begin the day with a fun breakfast.
The whole class singing and dancing to a hello morning song they teacher has then do every day.
Time to pass out Valentines!
Since Emily’s class had their Valentines earlier in the day I was still able to help out with the kindergarteners with their class party. I volunteer with this class every Friday afternoon so it was nice to be able to attend Em’s class party and the kindergarteners in the same day without any time conflicts.
This little girl, Fiona is a hand full. For some reason she and I clicked right away and it is exciting to see her challenge herself to do better so she could get more prizes from the prize box. I help out with the prize box so she always wants to surprise me with how well she did for the week. Fiona sure made my Valentines Day! See that little sticker on my shirt? She had came up to me so happy to see me and said Oh you are here!!! ( she knew I had Em’s party to go to) I was hoping you would come. I saved this for you since you are the best mommy in the whole wide world! Thank you for coming to my party. Fiona you sure do know how to melt my heart. 
Right on time, grandpa Sharps Valentines Day gifts came in the mail. It wouldn’t be Valentines Day without them.
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February 11th, 2011
A while back I asked my manager for Fridays off. For a long time my schedule was made with random days off since we were down a few shifts. Some weeks it had me working ten days in a row if the manager was not paying attention to last weeks schedule. So I asked for Fridays to be a set day off, my second day off could be whatever. She could still have me on weekends and Tuesdays as those were important days. It has been so nice to have my Fridays off. One Friday night we decided to play UNO.
Shuffle, shuffle those cards:
What cards to play? How could we make mommy draw some more cards. I had purposely told Rob to set across from me. I knew we are competitive and I needed a chance to win this game. Oh wait, I forgot HE has two kids. They were mean to me, I mean really mean. Skipping me, having me draw 2 and draw 4 whenever possible. All three of them enjoyed ganging up on me. I had no chance!
Every now and then I was able to get EVEN!!!!!
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They had this bagpiper come back to walk the halls as he played his bagpipe. 
