Children.

Do you remember that Norah Jones song with the lyric "and melt your cold, cold heart". I sang that to myself today as I heartlessly stared at a sobbing 8 year old. Why was she sobbing? She was flipped to yellow, the warning card. Now she can't go to green day party and apparently her Dad is going to ground her. I had several children warm me she was crying. I shrugged. I have a black heart. Part of me wanted to be like the one legged character from SNL and be like "Yeah, I flipped your card! Jealous??"...but I didn't. I wish every kid cried when I flipped their cards. Then maybe every class would be good. Hopefully, I can keep up my black hearted demeanor and frighten children into behaving. That was a class in college, in case you didn't know "Black Hearted Teaching: How to touch a child 101" In some enlightening school news, today our math problem was centered around... MANATEE'S!!!! They had to write the weight of the friendliest sea mammal from least to greatest. I didn't even make this up, someone ELSE in the teaching biz thinks that manatees are awesome enough to earn a problem...but of course these are the same people that give kids word problems featuring people with impossible names like: Ut, Astrophocles, Deronde, and Tiznaptia ( I def. made that last one up, but some of these names are off the charts ridiculous). One of the manatee's names was Donut. I wish I had a manatee named Donut. In HP news, I asked a child if he was confunded. Then explained it, then regreted it.

Soapbox moment: Saying the pledge of allegience everyday makes me really proud. I love the United States of America. I want to be one of those houses that has a flag banner and a virtual fence made from small wooden flags stuck in the ground. I am proud to be a big flaming republican, but sad that no one at lunch wants to be a red state. And I display my 8x10 of President Bush on my filing cabinet because I love the President of our country. And I am proud of my husband who is going to be serving our country and keeping us all safe. Giving us the right to live in the free country we live in!
Love, Kaley and Nick