The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Mother

Yesterday evening sucked.  There are no other words for it.  Monday morning Jonas woke up with a swollen face on one side, coincidentally the side with a cracked tooth.  It'd been hurting him on and off for a few weeks.  The dentist saw him for a cleaning and a check up, barely making mention of the cracked tooth.  Now this...   Luckily he has an appointment with the oral surgeon at 3:30 for a whole other issue.  Maybe we can work out a package deal! The dentist called in clindamycin, a very strong and nasty tasting antibiotic.  He could barely get down one dose and then threw up his second dose.     Throw into the mix my newly turned 16 year old Bailey, had Region Orchestra tryouts at O'Connor till 9:00 p.m.!!  The good news, he got first chair!  The bad news, he has a huge Lord of the Flies 3-D map project due today.  He did not finish and will have to accept a deduction on his grade. ...

It's been awhile.  If you look back at my history of blogging, September is always a month with very few posts.  Blame it on being back to school, after all blogging isn't my full time job...teaching is!  Finding a topic to write about in the midst of being knee deep in school is often difficult for me.  I'm trying something different today.  As I type this post, my entire 3rd grade class is watching it on the overhead projector.  I'm attempting to model for them the process of writing and editing.  Our lesson today is on using "voice" in our writing.  I've been told by several of my readers, that my "voice" is loud and clear in my writing.  Sometimes, I don't even realize my voice is ringing through my writing, but having voice in writing is about letting your own personality shine through your words. One of the main points I really hope to get through to my kiddos, is that writing is an art.  Writing is taking your creative thou...