Field Trip Day!

Today was a field trip for Kenton's school. They had a "field trip" to Barnes & Noble in Erie. Kenton LOVED all the books. He was like a kid in a candy store. He would like to have bought one of each I think!! All the other kids had stacks of books they were buying and Kenton was feeling a bit "blue" I think so I broke down and bought him 2. His favorite is a book on his level about John Deere (the guy who created John Deere tractors). He had picked out a Discovery book about the human body and I almost bought it for him but there were 2 other mothers standing there who were desperately wanting it to supplement their schooling (for their kids) and we are not studying that at the moment so he graciously allowed them to have his copy.

Anyways... he had a lovely time and had 3 stories read to him by his teacher. They had the day broken up into grades so there were only approximately 15 K-4th graders there when we were there.

After that Cindy Misch met us and we had a lovely lunch (breakfast in our case) at my favorite restaurant, Cracker Barrel.

P.S. I just saw that Cindy posted some pics on her blog as well!!! Cindy, its always great to be together!!!

K-4th graders in attendance


Kenton reading the "Human Body" book

My competition

For the last year, I've had competition when it comes to spending time with my husband. Last year at this time, he started graduate school to get his masters in education. It's been a long road and we still have til the end of this year to go. I'm sure we will all be thankful that he did this - when its all over!!! In the meantime, if I want to spend any time with my husband I have to go over to his study and typically, this is what I see.....

If I get lucky, this is what I see!!

My dear perfectionist husband

Honestly.... for the last 4 days I keep hearing about this dreadful 15 page paper that is due yesterday. I mean he has been staying up until 3:00 AM each morning to work on this. He's been spending ENTIRE days in his office on this thing. Anyways.... He's been stressing.

So, he turns it in last night at midnight and gets his grade this AM. He got an 89% on it. He was devastated. Completely blown away. So.... his prof told him to revise it and re-submit it by midnight tonight.

So..... I get the kids all settled in bed.... get him his favorite snack..... brew some tea for us..... and head to his office to give him moral support during this stressful and disappointing time.

While sitting there I say to him... "honey, hypothetically, what happens if you don't get any higher of a grade than the 89%?" So, he accesses all his prior grades up until now. GUESS WHAT???!!! If he gets no better than a 89% on this paper his average right now (even with the 89%) is 99%.

I about spit out my tea. I was like, "WHAT?!! You mean I've been feeling all sorry for you and letting you whine about your awful grades and then I find out THIS?!!!" I promptly got up and left. I said, "Honey, if you want to sit here in front of this computer and go over that stupid 15 page paper simply to bring your grade from a 99% to a 100% - go for it but I have more important things to be doing." GRRRRR!!!


So, for my perfectionist hubby, I have found a new motto that he must recite each night before going to sleep..... "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."Michael J. Fox