We got the DVD of the “print-ready” photographs from our wedding photographer when we arrived home from our anniversary trip to Galveston. As I went through the images, this one jumped out at me. Somehow I had overlooked it before, but tonight it caught my eye. I love the moment that it captured.
I’m a lucky, lucky woman to have married such a wonderful man. He is simply fabulous, and I can’t say that enough.
I love my iPod. I love that thanks to the photo iPod, I have room to store 60gb of music, which is our entire music collection and then some. Mike is very jealous of my room, because the 20gb iPod won’t cut it once you add in Podcasts. Oops. I would trade, but… well, I haven’t. Maybe I will someday.
In case listening to music isn’t enough for you, there are 50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod. I need to add the PodGourmet to mine (#24 on the list) so I can have handy recipes. There are a lot of other things on the list I need to do to make my iPod even better.
I plan on knitting an iPod sock for mine. The socks that they sell are sort of blah and I know I could make something much nicer. Maybe I could knit one for you too? (Let me know if you want one and we can work something out.) I think the first one will have to be made in the leftover yarn from my latest pair of sassy socks. That way, I can match the iPod.
Tomorrow will be our one year wedding anniversary – can you believe it? I can’t believe it has been a year already. We are celebrating by returning to the Tremont House in Galveston, where we had our wedding reception last year.
In honor of our anniversary, I will be posting all of our wedding photos to Flickr! But for now, I’m heading to the Island!
I’ve been down and out for a few days with a major tooth infection. I have had the joys of painkillers to ease the pain, which is a good thing. I need them today. Not for the toothache though, but rather because I think I might beat my head on the wall.
We’ve had issues all school year with Jason and his Language Arts (formerly known as English) class. He tests well in Language Arts – his teacher told me this morning that his TAKS test results even indicate he should be in the advanced class that he is in. But he has butted heads with her all year long, and today? Today is the final straw.
Last week, they were given a project to do as a group. They had to create a poster with various items. Jason had to come up with laws for a community based on what they were reading in “The Giver.” His group each had a piece of the project to do, and that was his. He came to class the next day with nothing done. The kicker? He told the teacher that was because he really, “had a lot to do at home.”
There is just one problem with that – he didn’t have a lot to do at home. Matter of fact, he has had review sheets to study for finals, and that is it. They turned in their books before the tests even finished, so they started studying awhile back.
So she gave him another shot, and left him in the group. Again, the next day, no work completed. So she informed him that he could not just coast through and get a 100 with the other kids if he wasn’t going to contribute to the project. It wouldn’t have been fair to the other kids – a point that I completely agree with her on. She told him that if he wasn’t going to do the work, she was going to pull him from the group so that they wouldn’t suffer – and she told me that he responded that that was good, because he preferred to do it himself.
Just one problem. He didn’t bother to do any of it then.
A major grade, the last grade of the school year, no way to recover from a zero, and he didn’t do it at all.
His excuse to her yesterday? He couldn’t turn in the poster because we were too busy this weekend to get a piece of posterboard for him. (Hmmm… probably because he never asked for any posterboard?)
His excuse to me this morning about why he didn’t do it? Because the teacher was being mean, and that made him not want to do it. (Obviously, that excuse didn’t go over very well.)
I think I’m going to beat my head on the wall. He just tossed his solid B in Language Arts out the window. Since I found out about the project this morning, the day after it was due, if he turns it in tomorrow the best he can get is a 50. It is a project about his opinions on things for a community. It should have been a fairly easy A or B grade. I just don’t get it. I don’t get it at all. And I know it’s not just me – every mother of a teenage boy between the ages of 13 – 15 that I’ve spoken with recently is dealing with this exact same struggle. AUGH!!! What is it? What is causing it? What can I do to fix it? WHY??? Why, why, why? Why would you just not do the project at all? Why the complete lack of accountability? What on earth can I do?
If anyone has any tips, words of advice, wisdom to share – or if you just want to share what you’re going through right now – I would appreciate it. I can’t keep banging my head on this wall.
Thanks to Hotwire and crazy cheap airline tickets, I’m heading to Philadelphia in just a few short hours after booking a flight this afternoon! I will be visiting Mac, my personal knitting guru, and hopefully I’ll be able to hook up with some of the other people in the area. How fabulous is that? I can’t WAIT! Considering my flight leaves Houston at 6:00 am, I’m heading out at about 4:30 … just 4 hours from now. Whee!
I will confess, I wanted to go to Boston and L.A. also, but Jenn is in the midst of moving and wrapping up things at work, and Christina has obligations for the weekend. So in the end, Philadelphia won out. I’m so excited though – I love visiting new places, I’ve always wanted to go to Philly, and there is all that historical stuff there. Oh, and the high temp for tomorrow is supposed to be 64 with 30% humidity. It’s already 103 degrees with 274% humidity here in Houston.
Keep an eye on the Flickr sidebar – I’m sure I’ll be moblogging photos! It looks like there is definitely a lot to see. Have any tips on places I should try to be sure to see? I doubt we will do museums or anything like that, but if there is a “you can’t MISS this” spot, let me know.
Everyone play nice while I’m gone – remember, it’s all about the brotherly love!