It's raining, it's snowing,

Snowy rain falling and still I managed to make it in to work on a Sunday to get my copying and prepping for the week started.

The new trimester begins Monday, but I'm still finishing the grading for the last one. The "big" projects were an "Ancient Greek Times" newspaper page for my ELL social studies group, A Cultural comparison (home country and the US) for the 8th graders, and the 7th graders a summary comprehension test on a reading excerpt from the story "My side of the Mountain." only the 7th graders are being their typical butt-y selves and complaining, "I don't get it." Seriously, we've being working for two weeks on looking at one story and you don't get it?! They need a lot of hand holding.

Right now I'm in the midst of baking a from scratch chocolate cake. Of course, the baking powder is old and I had to fiddle with the baking chocolate (didn't have any so did a cocoa powder conversion), and almost didn't add enough sugar (recipe said one and a half cups...initially I read 1/2 cup) but a quick taste test got the sugar close. Ran out of sugar as well. It's not like I use it very often! Five more minutes, till I get to check on it.

and now for a little stream of consciousness writing. man it is raining, yay Seahawks managed not to lose, Hanukkah starts this week so I got out my menorah and candles did you know they sell Hanukkah candles? i bought Christmas cards and have addressed most of them but of course have manged to lose Gaia and Tyler's, Alli and Brett's and Laurel's address. No you might not know these people! oh, look time to check on the cake just a sec......okay the cake rose so the baking powder still had some action.

New walking challenge...4 person teams to "walk" to Mexico for spring break. Each person needs an average of 7000 steps. Totally do-able. I decided to do laps around the school on 3-4 day a week...gives me time to pray and adjust my attitutde for classes. Very Jericho.