can the village people be a part of our curriculum? i think not.

ah, blessed wednesday!  today we went to another Christmas reading, and it was a fun little story...there was a prop that someone brought in for our reader to use. apparently they wanted to put a doll in the 'manger,' so this is baby Jesus...

I'm sure none of you realized that baby Jesus was so fashionable and had bright blue feminine looking eyes...fire the prop-master!

but again, it was a cute tale of an irish family-very sweet. and the kids were very attentive-so proud!

today i had left the dogs out of the caged area, to be free in my room because i was going to be gone all day and then again this evening for our Christmas dinner get-together with school peoples. i didn't think i was going to get a chance to stop at home, but i did! so i let the boys out & got to play with them for awhile. i looked at the stairs my dad had made for them and someone bruno... had chewed at the carpet and left frayed ends all over the place, so i cut off all the ends and got the lighter out to seal them off...hopefully it makes the carpet a little less palatable as well. grr.

then they knew i was getting ready to leave again and chaco looked at me and said, "if you want me to go back in there, you're going to have to give me a good treat!" so i buckled and fixed up a couple of brain teaser game/treats for them.

when i got to pappadeaux for our dinner, it was rather dimly lit, but i was glad that they had decorated for the occasion. nothing says merry Christmas like...a tuna.

i know, you're looking at this saying, 'how does she know it's a tuna?' well, fortunately i was with one of our science teachers, mr. lawrence, and he is a fisherman.

the food was delicious and the company superb-good conversation is difficult to come by!

i forgot to mention that i saw this venn diagram the other day:

which made me want to cut out this picture as a visual:

picture from the greatest hits album.

the only reason i didn't put it up is because i didn't think the creator of the venn diagram (nor our superiors) would find it humorous.

i just caught bruno and chaco looking at the calendar and making plans for our break...oh boy.

thursday, please feel free to fly by like a rocket propelled pegasus in a tornado...quickly thursday, quickly.
julie