I finally got the tree back to the basement yesterday--I coordinate 90%...maybe even 95% of the Christmas around here (almost everything except my own presents) so I was increasingly agitated I had to wait on this--but it is a two-person job.
I spent most of today making sure everything would be ready for classes tomorrow. And now my classes have been published, syllabi have been uploaded to the Canvas sites, activities and diagnostics for tomorrow are ready to go, and I've just emailed everyone to welcome them to class. I've never been on a rollercoaster (too much of a scaredy-cat), but I imagine it feels like the mix of excitement, anticipation, and anxiety I'm feeling right now. I kind of love it.
Pic: Max and Huck were bored we stayed indoors most of the day. But also, I've always said Huck is half-puppy, half-kitty, and the way she drapes herself across the back of the sofa in the rumpus room proves my point.
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Look at your gorgeous room with all those bookshelves! So cozy.
Good luck today with your new classes! How lucky those students are.
Good Luck
Happy new semester! None of our Christmas decorations are down yet. I hope to tackle it this week. It will help that we never put most of them up.
Yep, it's over! My husband went back yesterday (not happily) and my daughter went back today- VERY happily. She gets bored at home.
Glad you're loving the excitement of a new term!
Your house looks so cozy - I love the bookshelves!! And the doggies look so cute and snuggly!
Gosh I would love to audit a course you are teaching! I'd love to know what books your students will be reading. I kind of regret not taking more humanities courses in college. But maybe someday when I'm retired I can take some courses for fun. I think at a certain age, you can audit courses for free at the University of Minnesota in my city.
We are so glad that school is back in session for P. He had care for most of winter break but he does best when he's on a schedule. He was excited to tell us all about his lesson on fungi yesterday!
You've never been on a roller coaster?! What sort of life are you living?! Ha ha. Just kidding. They always hurt my neck and/or back because even when I was ten I was an old person.
That room is so cozy and inviting. I love how the sliding glass doors include Nature in the space.
Huck definitely has some feline DNA in there. That's a Kitty Thing for sure.
K-12 kids here got an extra day of break; the winter storm caused school to be cancelled yesterday. Sam was outraged: "We definitely would have had school, Mom! These kids are wusses."
I love this room so much! I do most of the Christmas prep, but I can't carry the heavy stuff right now because of back stuff, so I have the entirety of the dining room table piled in stuff until my husband brings up the boxes.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Nicole!
Thank you!
Thank you, StephLove! I pared extra X-Mas stuff down to mostly snowglobes a few years ago... it made it easier. Do you miss putting all of it up?
I'm glad to be back as well, Jenny... Maybe I'm cool like Angie too lol
I love when kids are excited to share about what they learned, Lisa. I'll never forget when Nu came home from school and asked us, "Guys, did you know that if your skin was a different color you couldn't go to the same school before Dr. Martin Luther King?" Chuckle Sob.
I always think I want to audit courses I hear about too... and I hope you will audit course at UM someday. When I was a grad student at U of South Carolina, Joan a senior citizen who was auditing a bunch Women's and Gender Studies courses brought SO MUCH lived experience into the classroom! The classes were so rich because of her.
We have a photograph somewhere of me riding a toddler ride with Nu who looks nonchalant while I look terrified. Haha. I'm sorry they hurt your back and neck--they hurt my BRAIN!
That room feels like being in a snow globe when it snows, Nance. (And a bit colder than the rest of the house too.)
I think Sam has a point... We've not had severe snow in a couple of years, so the school district has been declaring snow days even when the snowfall has been relatively light. And Sam has earned the right to jeer at the next generation by virtue of age!
I did hear that there was some significant snow in OH yesterday though!
Thanks, Allison! (Me too!) Sorry about your back. I try to make the kids do some of the carrying up and down because I feel it's good practice for the decades ahead.
It was a temporary (I hope) decision, based on the kittens' tendency to get into everything. They are much better jumpers than the last two. I did miss it.
I hope Walter and Willow are cool teenagers next year and you feel like putting up more dec. But what if they're wild teens :D?!?
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