"Turning 40 Class Reunion"

I just read my messages on facebook, and one was from an old classmate. She asked for my address and phone number because she's going to send me some information on a 70's themed turning 40 class reunion. The reason she's putting this together is because most of us who graduated in 1989 are turning 40 this year. That made me wonder, I'm turning 40 this year. I think after I made it to 30, the years just rolled by so quickly. My birthday isn't until  November and I am looking forward to it. My daughter is already trying her best to plan a 40th birthday bash for me. It really doesn't matter what I do, just as long as I'm surrounded by my family and closest friends. I would also like to say that this has been a great semester for me and I've learned alot from this English class. This is our last blog post, until I got in this class I had no idea what a blog was. Hope the rest of this semester is great for everyone. Thank you Ms. Smith for being a great instructor!  

A Beautiful Day

Today was a  beautiful day, this week has been quite chilly and when I woke up this morning the sun was beaming inside my room. I decided to fix pancakes and bacon for the girls. I wanted to make sure they would have enough energy to help me clean out closets. We cleaned the house from top to bottom and I was so tired from walking up and down the stairs, I know I've loss about 5 pounds. We mopped floors, cleaned windows and mirrors, cleaned tubs, toilets, carpet, closets, packed up old clothes, washed, and the list goes on. After all this work, my daughter wants to go shopping, so we get ready to go shopping and we enjoyed the day out in this beautiful weather. When we got to the 5th store, I was ready to call it quits. I couldn't go to another store, we had already been to the mall and then we ended up on Youree drive. I must say this Saturday was a beautiful day. Hopefully the up coming week will be beautiful as well.

Nice Day!!

Today started off so hectic for me, I had to go to my half-sisters mom funeral. My daughter have swim class on Saturday mornings, so I got my older daughter to taker her for me. It is such a beautiful day outside. I want to go to the park and feed the ducks. All I can think of right now is the pain my two half sisters are feeling right now. After the funeral services I enjoyed the nice day out.


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Is it Spring Break Yet!

I'm counting the days down until spring break. I want to take at lease one day to do something relaxing for myself and  another day to clean my house from top to bottom. I have closets to clean out so I can give clothes to the Providence House. I already have about four large trash bags full of clothes in my trunk now. The day is not long enough, seems like I have so much to do with little time. I think I will treat myself to a spa day. My daughter will also be on spring break at the same time so I will be putting her to work.

"My Five year old is So Funny"

I have to admit that my five year old daughter is so funny. We we're watching something on the Disney station and she told me "you ruined my life."I asked her what she mean by that and she said" You want let me sleep with you." I'm thinking to myself, I've runined her five years in this world. This was so funny to me I had to go to another room to laugh. She recently was tested to go to a Magnet school and on Thursday we passed by the school. I said "Morgan that's the school you might go to, we're just waiting on your test scores to come back." I'm still driving and Morgan tells me " I don't want to go to that school, It's Lame and I hate it."  She's talking like a teenager, so I have to stop that before it goes any further. We've had a long talk about things to say and not to say. I'm just waiting to see how long its going to be before she says something else about what she hates.

"School District Apologizes"

A school district in Central Ohio apologized for using a mock slave auction to teach social Studies to Elementary school students. When I read this story it disturbed me tremendously. A ten year old African American boy played the role of a slave and he was offended by this. The class was divided into slaves and masters. The masters had to bid on the slaves and they had to touch their arms, check their teeth and legs. The reason why they checked all of this is to see if the slave was strong enough to be a slave. Now I wasn't back in the slavery times, but I've read about it and my dad have told me many stories that his mother told him. My heart ached after reading this story. Slavery was so painful to so many people and to have a class of Elementary children playing slave and masters was wrong. A spokeswoman for Chapelfield Elementary school in Gahanna, Ohio said the slave auction was part of the state required curriculum. She also stated that it was a one time curriculum lesson. I 'm just wondering who made the curriculum for this district and why make students do something so horrible? I'm just relieved that the district have apologized.     

"My dad's Retiring"

Tomorrow is my dad's last day working at the Post office as a mail carrier. He is retiring after 26 years. I asked him what will he do now and his response was " go fishing."  Before he worked at the Post Office he was a school teacher and before that he was in the Airforce and he did serve in Vietnam. Last year when he talked about the possibility of retiring, I asked did he want a party. He told me not to plan a party because he didn't need one. I was giving him a party regardless of what he said a year ago. When I first started planning it, he said my co-workers have been asking where my party will be. So now he's looking forward to the party which is Saturday. I'm ready for it to be over with, and guess who's doing the Retirement Speech; you guessed it, I am. I haven't even started preparing my speech, because my school work comes first. Hope everyone have a great weekend and say a prayer for me!!