Smile on His Face . . .

I may have left M. Dub with a smile on my face today, but Sam came home with quite the grin on his!  At 4:08 p.m. this afternoon, they found out that they would be having three full-time fifth grades this year.

For the past four days, they've had 2.5 - Sam and Cheri are full-time with Susie just in the mornings.  Sam is thrilled.  He'll be going from 31 students each afternoon down to 21 students a day (his morning number).  The even better news is that Cheri and Susie each only have 18 students in the morning, so the next six new students will NOT being going to Sam . . . no wonder he's smiling!

The Fifth Graders at M. Dub

Sam and Cheri had asked me if I would be willing to come in to school today (M. W. Savage) to do team building with them and their fifth graders.  Never one to pass up such a fun opportunity, I arrived at 1:40 p.m. per Sam's request.

Sam and Cheri divided their kids up in to four groups.  Add in the ESL teacher, and we had four leaders.  Every 10-15 minutes or so, the kids rotated clockwise and we all had an excellent day outside!

I led my groups through a combination of "Shark Attack" and "Mergers".  Three out of the four groups nailed it - two of the groups being from Sam's class.  It was great! 

I left with a smile on my face . . . 

Thankful Thursday!

It is amazing the things you can be thankful for on an ordinary Thursday!  Things like going to bed at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night after two nights with little to no sleep compliments of Melon Knee.  Then to actually put in more hours of sleep more than not, having to ice Melon Knee only once during the night.  But even better would be the first swim in exactly two months.  I was hoping for ten laps, striving for a half a mile, and desiring to be right knee's first swim of twenty laps!  Thankfully, Melon Knee was up for a swim and went 3/4 of a mile or twenty-seven laps.  Way to go, girl!  Thankful.  She finally did something better than right knee.

Chocolate Consumption Inducing PT Report

I'm sure you've guessed by now that I got good news and I got bad news at PT today.

The good news?  Bionic knee went flat!  Party on!

The bad news?  That same knee would only bend to 114º, three degrees LESS than last week. 

Why?  We have no idea.  It could have been my insanely busy day - from walking the dog to Sand Creek to CPR.  It can't be that I haven't been doing my exercises.  

So we're going to change my exercise regimen and see if that makes a difference.  

Our goal:  Flat and 120º by next Wednesday.  Press on . . .

Certified!

Not "certifiable" - certified!  

This afternoon, on my seven-week-old bionic knee, I became re-certified in CPR for the Professional Rescuer, First Aid and Emergency Oxygen Administration.  You have to love the supervisor who put said knee on a large floatie with a kick board on top of that, a pad on top of the kick board, and two towels! 

It still hurt, but I passed and that's all that matters!

Only at Sand Creek!

Today we had the educators from Como Zoo on the high ropes course and on the zip line.  They were great!  Their job is to educate in their (Como) classrooms or by traveling to school classrooms and weddings and other fine things.  I almost asked for a job there until I learned that staff got to handle giant cockroaches and snakes and NO THANK YOU! 

Only at Sand Creek . . . on the weekend!

Saturday was a most interesting day at Sand Creek.  As always, the clients were just fun!  The struggle was with the co-workers.  You are an adult.  You can get to work on time.  You are an adult.  You can make a lunch rather than leaving the course for an hour and a half to buy one.  (We have half hour lunch breaks if you're curious!)  You have worked here for five months.  You do not need me to tell you what to do every step of the day.  

I talked to the course manager about said co-worker today and she agrees with me.  Unfortunately, we are currently short-staffed and she is willing to put up with it for now.  

Define "adult"?  Someone over THIRTY!!!

Fortunately, Sunday was a hoot and a half!  It all started with Ethan taking off his hat:

Loved that cut!  Loved the people!  Great day!