Monday, May 30, 2011

About Grading Papers

I'm supposed to be grading papers. I've locked myself in the camper (or I've locked the kids out of the camper) so I can quietly focus on grading papers.

But clearly, I'm not focusing. I'm blogging instead. I went to my blog and then started catching up on all of your blogs (I sure do miss all of you. I wish you lived closer, or I lived closer, or something closer). I thought about Amy and how long it's been since I've seen her and her boys are growing so fast and day after tomorrow one of them might break with tradition and come to BYU-I.

And then I realize that I'm doing it again. It is procrastinating. It is finding all these other things to do besides what I should be doing. I used to do it in graduate school. I would have a paper to write and I would clean the house, do the laundry, fix dinner, and when there was literally nothing else for me to do (or Randy was yelling at  encouraging me to get to work), I would sit down and whip out that paper.

The problem here is that all those papers are already whipped out. I just need to whip out the grades.

I should have been a math teacher.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Happy Mother's Day

Today in Primary, the kids filled out an "All About My Mom" questionnaire. I thought I'd share the answers with you.

How old is your mom?
McKay: 12 or 13
Kilee: 37
Tanner: 39 (Randy later told him to err on the low side, not the high side)

What is your most favorite meal that your mom cooks?
McKay: chicken nuggets (that's a hard meal, let me tell you)
Kilee: egg muffins
Tanner: chicken and rice

What do you like to do with your mom?
McKay: read books
Kilee: go shopping at the mall (that's probably her favorite thing to do, with or without her mom)
Tanner: cook

What is your mom's favorite thing to do?
McKay: movies and stores
Kilee: go to Idaho Falls
Tanner: be with family (this is much closer to the truth)

What's your favorite thing about your mom?
McKay: spending time with her at night and having desserts
Kilee: her outfits are dang cute (that's seriously what she wrote)
Tanner: she's friendly

But the comment of the day goes to McKay. When we were sitting down to dinner tonight, after a long round of "Happy Mother's Day" from the other kids,
McKay asked, "Mom, when is Happy Little Kids Day?"