Teachingmommy: I Know, I Know...

Thursday, February 5, 2009

I Know, I Know...

I've received a few comments that I haven't been posting as much as I used to and it's annoying. You all check back to see pictures of Maelin and to hear what's going on and I've been failing at keeping up.

I agree.

Here's the problem: I can only post pictures and/or write a post late at night after Maelin has gone to bed. However, after teaching 26 kids all day with no help whatsoever (I am the only 2nd grade teacher without a para to come help or a student teacher AND I have the most students of any of them...but that's another post) and then coming home and getting dinner ready and then playing for a few hours with my precious baby girl and then getting her ready for bed and helping her fall asleep, I'm EXHAUSTED by 9:30pm and all I can do is get clothes and food ready for the next day and fall into bed...just to wake up at 6am to do it all over again.

The weekends aren't much better either. I am usually busy trying to catch up on laundry and visiting with friends and let's not forget the precocious 21 month old that would like me to play with her, thank you very much! I just haven't been able to find the 30 minutes it takes to sit down and write a properly spelled, interesting post for you complete with pictures.

So, please keep checking back. I have some news that I'm getting ready to share with you and Maelin will be 22 months old tomorrow, so that deserves a special post (complete with pictures I promise!) all its own.

See you soon!!!

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Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.