History Personified

I just returned from an amazing law conference for school board members here in Arizona. I learned about the different laws effecting our schools today such as:
1. Employee Discipline: How Board Members Can Keep from Messing it Up!
2. Employee Privacy Issues in the Workplace
3. Employee Email Monitoring
4. The Latest on Educating English Language Learners
5. Student & Employee interactions via the New Technology (this was an education!)

I got to see Ron Rickel who served as Principal of Mt. View HS in Tucson and then in the Marana District years ago...he is now Superintendent of the Mammoth San Manuel Unified School District - which is where I first met him. He taught math in the Junior High there when we lived there! It was great visiting with him.

I think the highlight of the entire event was meeting a man by the name of Clay Jenkinson. He portrayed Thomas Jefferson. He was dressed in period clothing. Spoke in the first person. It was amazing, it was spiritual, it was rivoting! (Did I spell the correctly??) Anyway...I couldn't tell Curtis enough about it last night. Then today, this same man, came back and did a presentation as if he were J. Robert Oppenheimer who invented the Atomic Bomb. I knew nothing about this man...was before my time...but boy I learned a lot listening to him, about him. Mr. Jenkinson is a very talented humanitarian. You can see a presentation on the web if you go to www.jeffersonhour.org
Now I have lots to research as to our curriculum and what we are or are not teaching!

Kissing Hubby

Today was the second day hubby was home. Traveling to work for him now consists of walking from the bedroom at 6:30 a.m. to the Office in our home trying not to stub his toe as he rounds the corner past the family room couch! Every time one of us leaves...we give each other a kiss and say "I'll be back...I love you!" Well...I was the one today out the door several times. Hubby got lots of kisses. I told him..."You are really getting a great deal in this new arrangement of working at home!"

I went visiting teaching. Met a new lady on my route and what a neat person she is. Can't wait to get to know her better! Then went to the world's best chiropractor to have my neck fixed! Yeah...no more pain after he works his magic! Off to Sprint store. Wonderful son gave me his old NEW wonderful phone (he got Ipod phone) to transfer contacts. I had 129 contacts. I didn't know I talked to so many people! I can hear hubby in my mind saying "Well..I could of told you that!"

Stopped into Sprouts to pick up an item...and found two friends from church there. Small world ... I guess they like Sprouts too!

Back home for lunch with hubby! Then out the door at 1:15 (more kissing) to speak at a school staff meeting and cheer teachers on. It was so fun. I heard some funny stories they shared. One teacher was on the Stratosphere in Las Vegas on a ride. Seat belt would not latch...could have plunged to her death...but held on...and lived!!! I would not do that!!!!

Received a rescue call to go and help a friend. Out the door at 2:45 pm (more kissing) - I took her to a courthouse...then to Motor Vehicle Department (finding the right one...what an adventure!)...and then took her home.

I made it home in time to wolf down hubby's dinner of salad and soup.

Off to HOA meeting for two hours....(more kissing). Gee I think I am going to like him being home! But he says to me...You are never home! I told him...that is true - now you know what my day is like.