That Game

It's called "Rose and Thorn".  Basically, you share at the end of the day the "good" thing and the "bad" thing that happened.  I play it with my girls on Thursday nights.  But, we didn't meet tonight.  Because of my thorn.

Today has 2 "roses":

1. Check out these standings.  Go Damascus girls!  That's nationally, folks.  I see they just fell to 4th from 3rd (The rankings will probably keep shifting as other teams have games), but still...proud moment. :-)

2.  My professor provides feedback on Thursdays.  I haven't done my homework, because I was nervous about what he was going to say about my research question (Truthfully?  It only vaguely makes sense to me and it's my question.) and I figured there wasn't any point in doing a full article analysis if he rejected the question.  Aside from me being scared of my own question, I'm all psyched up again that I can do this.  :-)

Wow! This is a powerful research question. You are demonstrating high-level analytical development vital to excellence in educational leadership. This is the type of critical thinking we are looking for when dealing with learning theories. I appreciate how you focused the research question so that your research will ultimately help students. You are on the front lines when it comes to developing better ways to help students learn. Combining the theories you selected will create a powerful theoretical framework.

The thorn:

My back...my aching, freakin' back.  I'm so over it.  I keep trying to "consider it all joy" and I've no doubt everything works together for good (and good things have come from this), but...blah...if it was my leg I would have just cut it off already and moved on. 

#8

Damascus vs. Poolesville

 Team Prayer

 

 

Best friends since kindy...3 years ago vs. today.  They've change a little bit, huh?

 

Here's an interesting thing:  Sometimes I worry that I've screwed up my kids.  Because, I'm weird, y'know?  And I do some things in parenting that I don't see anyone else doing. 

The other thing is that there are some things I love about myself that I was hoping my kids would also have.  Turns out, they didn't get them.  Or, not yet, anyway.  And sometimes I have to wonder about that.  Will they be alright if they don't have whatever I have that I attach so much value to? 

And then....sometimes...I see something else.  If I was going to make a list of things I wish I had?  #8 has all of them. 

Life is funny.

Just a picture.

Alicia-Lax
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Knowledge

Posted today by my professor:

Knowledge = Heart + Mind

Knowledge - Love = Vanity

Knowledge - Application = Arrogance

Knowledge = Action + relationships

Knowledge = Obedience + Trust

Knowledge + Beliefs = Worldview

The Garden

Spring is my busy season.  Everything happens all at once, non-stop.  The downward slide into summer...  I love summer.  :-)  Sigh...I love spring.  It took a long time in coming, but I think it's finally here.

I don't exactly know where the weekend went, but I did manage to get outside to start making sense of the yard.  While I was out there, I was lost in thought (which is maybe the best place to be?). 

Had this whole post formulated in my head about that analogy of a garden as it relates to anything else in life one finds worth the effort required.  But, I'm too tired to write it all out.  No worries.  It's sappy, anyway.

So, that's where I've been.  In my garden.  At lacrosse.  At work.  Doing homework.  At church.  With friends.  And a hundred other places.  It's all worth it in the end.  But, yeah...I'm tired.

In other news...Jac turned 12 last week and is now the owner of a bearded dragon.  Despite living here for a week already, the thing is still nameless.  My vote is on Elvis, but that was vetoed.  Oh well...it's the best lizard name I have.

The big question...for today, anyway.

What is the point of knowledge if its execution only leads to arrogance?

Puerto Rico

A sampling of our trip:

Monday: Snow on the first day of spring break.  They are all smiles, though...thinking about where they'd be in a few hours.  Our flight was late leaving which meant we were late getting there.  Spent the rest of the day walking around the area of the hotel, checking out the grocery store/restaurants/etc...

Tuesday: We went to Old San Juan with the intention of seeing the main tourist-y stuff.  We didn't actually make it that far.  Got sidetracked with looking at other stuff.  Discovered Pigeon's Park and mostly just walked around.

 

 

Wednesday:  Rented a car and went to the El Yunque Rain Forest.  Then to Luquillo Beach (filthiest beach I've ever been to in my life).  Then drove back to San Juan via the coast.  This was the day I accidentally ate pork stomach.

 

 

 

Thursday: Went back down to Old San Juan to see the main attractions.  Saw both forts and then went back to Pigeon's Park.  That place makes me happy.  Some guy was out walking his iguana on a leash and decided to put the lizard on Ryan's head.  I could have gotten better pictures had I been expecting it.

 

Friday:  Double-Whammy.  It was Good Friday and EVERYTHING in Puerto Rico was closed.  We had planned on making it a beach day, but it was stormy.  70 mph winds and rain.  All day.  Mostly, it was a nap day.  Every vacation should have a nap day, right?  We did go out on the beach for a bit.  Our beach was calm during the first part of the week and Jac was really happy the storm had kicked up some waves.

Saturday:  Rented a car and drove out to the Bacardi Distillery for a tour.  Then went to Plaza Las Americas (which looks just like a regular mall we could go to at home, but Alicia wanted to see it) and then went out to the Pinones area.  I had seen it in the dark on Wednesday and wanted to see it again in the daylight.

 

One last picture...I took 500ish pictures, lol.  You have to see this coffee.  I've never had such good coffee in all my life.  To have it 6 mornings in a row???  Sigh...who would ever want to leave that?