Well, it has been a while since my last post, but some major events have occurred. As I am sure you are aware, Oklahoma just had a horrible ice storm. Because of the ice storm, I lost electricity. I was without it for 8 days, which felt like an eternity. I got my electricity back on Monday and was so happy to have it when I got home from work. But, now my cable, internet and home phone are not working....I have a cox bundle so when one is out, all bundle features are out. Cox has quoted me a date of January 4th as the estimated date of repair. Oh well, at least I have lights :) !

This past weekend was to be my last class of the semester, but due to the weather and all my professor cancelled her trip to Tulsa and I was quite happy!! I turned in my last paper for the semester, which was quite overwhelming. Since my class was cancelled, I was very happy that I was able to attend two parties. On Friday, my sister Beth, hosted an ornament exchange party and we enjoyed delicious appetizers and pomegranate martinis. Beth did quite the awesome job of hosting!! I was very proud! Then, on Sunday, Deborah had our family over for some fun games and delicious food and alcoholic punch! We played Apples to Apples; a first time for me, then we played Charades. It was quite enjoyable.

This week at school has been a blur. Last night we had our Christmas make up program. The original date was during the ice storm. The kids did such a great job!! We have had so much activity this week. Today we read the Polar Express in order to prepare for the movie tomorrow. Each year when Rita and I read this story, we pretend we have lost the magic of Christmas; randomly throughout the day different people hide outside of our rooms and ring a bell, which we pretend not to hear. We keep this up until about 2:15 or so, then we suddenly can hear the bell. The kids love it and quite frankly, so do I. Tomorrow, we are wearing our pajamas to school and taking a ride on The Polar Express. It is so much fun teaching first grade!!

Happy Wednesday!!