Daily Archives: August 20, 2011

Positive thoughts for the day

Positive thoughts for the day

1) Jared got home early early this morning. I really missed that guy.

2) My classroom is 95% of the way completely set up, compared to about the 50% that it was set up yesterday.  Jared helped me out so much today, especially with moving the desks and ridiculously heavy chairs that somebody thought would work okay for 7th graders. Despite a lot of the stresses that is unavoidable with starting a new school year, just having the classroom taken care of helps me feel so much better.

One school-related thing down, 100 more to go!

If you value your life…

If you value your life…

…Don’t leave it alone with Bonnie.

Case in point:

I was making dinner to bring to a lady from church who recently had a baby. It’s too hot to leave Bonnie and Stevie outside for long periods of time (unfortunately) and so I left them sleeping cutely on the couch. A few minutes later, I heard a crunching sound.

Immediately, as if it were a dirty curse word, I thought, “BONNIE!” And sure enough, she was chewing on one of my favorite pens.

Fortunately, I caught it in time that the pen will still be useable.

Later in the evening, I was cleaning up the house so Jared could return home to a nice, clean place (which makes him very happy). I had put my glasses on the little banister area between our breakfast nook and the family room, so I thought they were safe.

I was so very, very wrong.

Because I was vacuuming, I came too late to save them. Bonnie had jumped up, managed to get the glasses, and brought them back to the couch to happily gnaw away on them for a good fifteen minutes.

This is what was left:

 

What should have been a long, wonderful life was cut tragically short. You didn’t even make it the full year. Hopefully I can get replacements soon so I don’t have to depend on the backup glasses Bonnie also mangled (not as badly).

R.I.P., glasses. R.I.P.