true story

Student: Ms. Taylor-Montieth, what happens if I bomb this spelling test?

Me: Then you will not receive a passing grade... (the smartest answer I could think of)

Student: Will I get a F?

Me: If you do not pass, then yes you will receive an F

Student: Does that mean I will fail?

oh my. sometimes this job is just too funny for words.

what is wrong with this picture?

Today during Channel One (a horrible teen-broadcast news program I must endure every morning with my seventh graders) a young man asked me why the state of Georgia would want to attack Russia.

oh dear.

love for a lifetime

"though love be a day, and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing"

ee cummings

my heaven

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"

(Henry Ward Beecher)

joy admist sorrow

It was a difficult time. More difficult than I ever imagined it could be. I tried to hide...hide the tears, hide the fear, hide the feeling of complete and total abandonment.

And then she came along...my newest baby girl.

This is Abby. She's just a baby now...when she reaches full size we're expecting a BIG dog.

I love her.

Because everything is movement....

They blocked my xanga at work...and sometimes I need the avenue to just let it out...or quite frankly, waste time. So, I'm starting this in the hopes that I'll find a new place to just let it out.