FLEAS!

When I got to work this morning I went and sat my stuff down in my classroom and then went to the restroom.  Upon leaving the restroom I found a flea on my arm.  Gross, I know!  I started to feak out thinking that some how my dogs had gotten fleas and we were going to have to handle that tonight.  Well, I go downstairs and am talking in the office when a teacher comes in with a first grader saying that her and the rest of the class are complaining about bugs biting them.  (All the kids wait in the gym in the morning.  We do a prayer circle there and then go to our rooms)  We check out the first grader, and she has fleas all over her socks (she was wearing knee highs with her uniform).  The gym is pretty much infested with fleas!  Who knows how it happened, but it is disgusting!  Turns out about half of the school has fleas, including my classroom.  I had to teach in the computer lab today, and didn't realize how difficult it can be to conduct class outside of my room.  Everything is organized in there, but I was trying to move things and figure out what I needed.  Then the kids act super crazy because something out of the ordinary happened.  Not the best way to start a week that is already going to be stressful!

I feel gross and itchy and like I need to shower!!  Thankfully, they are spraying, bombing, fumigating, or whatever tonight so we will be safe to come back tomorrow with no fleas.  What a wonderful Monday...

Cake makes everything better!

I have had a stressful and just crappy last week and half at work, so Nick, being the wonderful husband he is, agreed to make a rainbow cake with me last night.  We had quite a bit of fun, and it is so pretty.  There is no way to be upset when, not only do you have cake, but a bright pretty cake!

We started out with just regular cake mix, icing, and then 'professional food coloring' (that is what I call it at least, you can't use just regular food coloring).  We made the cake like it says on the box (we used white cake so that the colors would be extra bright), and then we mixed in the color.

The colors turned out so good!  Then we baked like normal...

The results were fabulous!  We put a thin layer of chocolate icing in between each layer and cream cheese icing on the outside.  I am in love with this cake!

Now I will smile when I eat my lunch!  Spring Break is so close I can barely stand it!

Seriously!!

Sometimes I just don't get my students! I teach at a Catholic school, and while it isn't easy these kids are extremely babied. I only had two students in my homeroom who did their religion homework, which was a super short worksheet, and they could care less. Maybe it is just because they are in 7th grade and turning 13, but they could all use a reality check that life won't always be so easy, and in high school teachers will just give a zero and not care that they are failing.