Thoughts on the Matter

 Around Christmas time I was searching for Christmas gifts and I was surprised to see that Louis Sachar had released another book in the Wayside School series. I bought it for my son Sagan as a gift and was very excited to give it to him for Christmas. He wasn't really interested. Seriously??? Guh... To be fair despite the fact the he is an excellent reader, he prefers graphic novels. So on to Plan B. I started reading it out loud. Ha.,.he fell for it, and was HOOKED! His little brother even came in to listen to the stories. And that's how we got started on the Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom. After we finished, I downloaded Sideways Stories onto my Kindle. We started reading that one together. It was amazing how much joy it brought me to share these silly stories with my kids. And somehow out of depths of memories I thought were long gone, I pulled out the " I got one sock! Lookin' for the other One sock! Lookin' for its brother. When I find that sock I&#

 When you realize that you haven't blogged in such a long time that you don't even remember what the name of your blog is...oops. Well things certainly have changed since the last time I posted. I left my fifth grade science position at Melrose Elementary, which I absolutely loved, to be closer to home and on the same schedule as my boys. It was a big decision, in the process I lost my continuing contract, with no hope to ever have one again. But it was the dream job, STEM teacher at the STEM magnet school, like 5 miles from my house! I was over the moon excited! Such a cool position, such a unique position, and I really enjoyed my role. Never did I think I'd resign, because...dream job. But unfortunately, COVID. Through many tears, like a ton, in late July, early August 2020 I realized the best thing for my family was to resign. My boys would be doing digital school from home and needed to have someone to monitor what was going on. While my husband was working from home, h