Category: School

Finally! I don’t know what I got on this last final, but I know it was good enough to get a B in the class, which is fine with me.

This “journey” has taken for-frickin-ever. So starting in 1st grade, I have been taking classes 21 of the last 23 years. I took a two year break right after undergrad. With that much time in school I should be able to perform brain surgery or at least a backiotomy.

I wanted to take a picture with the prof when I turned in my test, but decided that was uber lame. So I just took this shot of the last time I plan on seeing the inside of Grise Hall ever again.

One last Finance test till I can close this 5 year long chapter of my life.

This week was teacher appreciation week, and although I expected the usual food from parents and a fern from the school, I didn’t really expect anything from any students.  I received a couple hand-made cards, which were cute, but check out this gift set from a girl in my homeroom.  I’ve never seen anything like it.  I thought the gesture was very nice and found it very funny that something like this was ever created.

Well, I just thought I would share that with you before I eat dinner out of my “soup-er teacher” soup bowl and go pamper myself with “greatest teacher shower gel” and “A+ teacher body souffle.”

We haven’t written much in a while. I don’t think there has been too much exciting stuff going on, so I thought I’d mention something. Last night we went to Diddle Arena to watch the Franklin Simpson Ladycats play in the regional finals. They did a great job against Barren County, winning 55 to 24. It’s neat to see some of these girls because I taught a few of them my first year teaching. Although the game was not very exciting, the news that followed was: Franklin Simpson schools will be closed on Wednesday to allow everyone to go to the game. Woo hoo! The game is at Diddle, and I will be there. Yay day off!

Tonight was Chad’s ten year high school reunion.  It was a pretty nice evening, but we are both glad that it is over (Chad especially).  You see, Chad was the president of the class of ’98.  Therefore, he was in charge of getting the whole shin dig together.

We started making plans back in the summer, soon after we got married.  Since then, Chad has been responsible for sending invitations, getting in touch with people, getting their money, booking a DJ, picking a menu, and making name tags with the alumni’s senior picture.

Ok, so that last task was sort of my fault.  His plan was to buy the “Hello, my name is…” sticky name tags, but thanks to me, he got a lot more work than he had planned.  I wanted to try to help, so I bought some name tags and set out to make them, but Chad ended up taking over the whole process.  He worked on them for hours, scanning in the pictures and getting them typed up correctly.  This was totally the opposite of what I wanted because Chad has been so busy lately.  The name tags did turn out really nice and everyone got a kick out of them.

The reunion was at The Sloan Convention Center at the Holiday Inn.  The meal was really good- salad, bread, chicken and green beans and rice.  I was surprised at how good it tasted.  For dessert, they had cheesecake with strawberry topping.  I have to admit, I ate mine and somebody else’s because it was so delicious.  The DJ played music on his guitar during dinner and then started playing hits from the 90s.  I don’t think too many people got into the music much.  For some reason more people were in the hall just outside of the room than actually in the room.  We had people fill out sheets and vote for superlatives, like married the longest (9 years 11 months), traveled the farthest (from San Diego), most children (3), most tattoos (8) etc.  Unfortunately, there were only about 10 people in the room when Chad announced the winners.  We actually won “most recent newlyweds,” but Chad didn’t want to announce it.

I think the whole night was a success, and nobody could have done a better job.  Chad put the whole reunion together while taking two MBA classes and still being a great husband.  I’m so proud of him.  Great job, honey!  I love you!

Well, a new school year is quickly approaching.  I go back to school this Wednesday and the kids start back a week later.  Some people may have thought that Franklin Simpson Middle School got a new math teacher, but no, Ms. Nicholson is now Mrs. Webb.  It’s crazy to think that I will never have that name again.  It is so much fun changing all my classroom things to my new name.  Although it is a little more work, it’s neat to think that the students I get this year will never know me as anything but Mrs. Webb.  I even thought that it’s kind of like starting over; any negative things that were said about Ms. Nicholson have hopefully left with the name.  (Not that I think there are a lot, but you know, you can’t please everybody).  Previously, I had my name by my door with some letters that I found and some green construction paper that have faded over the past 4 years.  Last week, however, I went to the Parent-Teacher Store and picked out some pretty colored lettering to proudly display my new name on my classroom door.  It looks pretty good if I do say so myself.

Also in my classroom is a lovely flower pot that looks very teacherly with a ruler painted around the top.  It too says Mrs. Webb, but it wasn’t made for me.  This belonged to Chad’s mom, Paulette Webb.    I also have a board eraser and little desk figure that say Mrs. Webb.  The desk even says #1 teacher.  We found these things in his garage while we were clearing stuff out.  I had asked Chad before if he knew of anything from teaching that had her name on it, but he didn’t.  So, we were pretty excited to find them.  I think it is pretty cool that we’re both teachers, and I think its is very special to have those in my classroom.