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I picked the worst time of year to start a blog. Oh well. Part of the reason why I started the blog was to take a break from the craziness that is my life in May/June. It gave me a bit of a break during the most difficult tasks of the school year. I love the day to day stuff of being a teacher. I love the kids, the lessons, moving around the classroom helping solve problems- it's a very physical job. I even love the end of the year organizing and cleaning up. It's the paperwork that gets me. I have files upon files to check, recheck, staple, sort etc. I literally go berserk trying to get these things done. I have to take lots of breaks and play lots of mind games to get through it. Now that it's all done (when is it ever all done, really), I will hopefully have some time to blog.

On our first official day of summer, Alex and I went to the library to sign up for the summer reading program. Before we left though, we had to burn his underwear in the grill. Potty training was rough for the little guy and we decided to burn the training pants. After the ceremony, we hustled on over to the library. The summer reading program has some sort of pirate theme like "Ships Ahoy" or "Reading Adventures." That worked well because Alex happened to have a sword tucked into his boxers. Since he had shorts on, the sword came out the bottom of his shorts. To top it off, he was wearing his "i-pod." It's this yellow clay pumpkin necklace (teacher gift) that Alex uses as his pretend i-pod. As I was thinking about my day, I realized that I burned underwear in a grill and then went to the library with a sword weilding, pumpkin-i-pod wearing kid. What a great way to start out the summer.