Back to School 2010

Do you remember back when you were in the 3rd grade, maybe 4th or 5th.  It was the weekend or the day before school started.  Do you remember that anxiety?  That feeling of not remembering what you had learned the year before!  OMG!  I can't breathe.....

No, I can breathe, it's just that I'm not sure where I put everything in my office.  Remember how I had told you I had moved my office at the end of the school year?  We moved everything in such a rush so that the Summer School Staff would have somewhere to operate from that I don't know if I can remember where I put things.

Ommmm, I keep trying to settle my nerves.  I don't remember being even a smidgen anxious in the past.  Even when it was my very first day of working in the office.  I had taken the Registrar job back 10 years ago.  Moved from a teaching assistant in the Kindergarten classes, yes I learned everything I needed to know in Kindergarten  along with my predecessor, and 2 successors and 2 office assistants.   Jody and I had decided to slip off to New Braunfels for a end of the summer get away, my new job was going to start a couple of weeks early compared to my old job and the kids were still out of school for a few more weeks and could use one last summer fling too.

So we loaded up and left town thinking I had a few more days left.  Yeah, that's what I get for thinking.  The lady I was replacing had given me a schedule of the back to school dates so that I would know when to report to school.  The problem with this was that schedule was her's from the current year and not mine for the next school year!

As I'm sitting in my In-law's kitchen about to have 'big breakfast' as the Cruzans call it, I get a phone call from the School Secretary,  "what are you doing? Are you coming in today?"   Oh yeah...  I was supposed to be at work on a Monday and not on a Wednesday like the schedule I HAD said.  Gotta go!  Wait for it!  It gets better....  I reported to my new job a day late.  To top it off, I had a new Principal AND a new Assistant Principal!!!!  

I had NEVER met either one of them!  That's how I roll, making a good impression and impressing people with my abilities to follow orders.  I'm also the person that is most likely to fall down a flight of stairs or end up laying in the floor laughing because I tripped over something like my own shoes, that I was wearing.

My bags are packed, and I think I'm ready. Thank goodness we aren't required to unlock the doors and turn on the phones tomorrow.  

I know for certain that I start school tomorrow.  I put the date in my calendar on my phone.  I also checked with Daniel just to be on the safe side.  Now if I can only remember where I put the keys to the school.  

I'm ready for Summer vacation to be over.  I've had a good summer, but I've had better summers, so here's to a great Fall....  After all this is when my new year begins, not January 1st.   I'll not celebrate like it's New Years Eve tonight, maybe I'll wait until this Friday after I've made it through this first week. 

BTW -- how many of you still have your lunchbox from the 1st grade?  I do!  The one I really wish I still had was the purple Twiggy Lunchbox from the 4th grade.  That was stylish!

Cinco de Mayo pictures

Left to right: Mr Vazquez, Mrs. Vazquez, Cristie our Principal, and Daniel our Asst. Principal. Cristie was announcing that our school was deemed Exemplary on the TAKS test. It's a huge thing in Texas, if your from somewhere else don't worry about it. I'm sure there's money involved somewhere.

Families gathering.

Rosie (my walking buddy) asking Elizabeth (one of the coordinators of the event) what her duties are for the evening.

More families. We were packed to the gills by the time everyone got here.

I have no idea why this in in here and I can't get it out.
My new wine bottle opener, it works quiet well, much better than the ones with arms. This bottle of wine was named in my honor.

Another mystery photo... the neighbor's new fence, I have privacy from the West, but that's not where I really need it.

Did we see this one already?

Some of the girls from Mrs. Vazquez 1st grade class. The two girls in the middle are Andrea Tinoco (my neighbor) and Deborah Montalvo (her mom is a fantastic cake decorator.)

Some of the blurry boys from the class.

Mr. and Mrs. Vazquez, yeah, they are married. She teaches 1st and he teaches 2nd.

1st grade dancing.

A cake, but not one of Mrs. M's.

They lined up for food.... clear out the door. We've decided we're going to have to have Pot Luck PTA meetings to get people to come.

Hey Girl! Get outta the way... you're holding up el progresso (and I'm not talking spaghetti sauce.)

No idea....

Mrs. V explaining the dance that Pre K was performing.

Everyone dancing....

more dancing...

Los Mariachis.

self explanatory.

too dark to see out here in the sun, you'll have to figure it out.

Folklorico dancer.

y mas.....

que es estos?

I know there's a feature on this camera for low light conditions.... I guess Lori was afraid to use it.

The dance of the old men, I wanted to join this Conga Line so bad, but was afraid they'd change the name to El Baile de Loca Mujere.

No se....

Down in front!

The littlest mariachi. He sang and played the violin. He had the whole Mexican yi yi yi down....

The Candle Head dance, you can barely tell it, but these guys have lit candles on their heads, (evidently they don't know the rules... no open flames, especially with all the frijoles we had this night) they danced around the whole song with the lit candles on their heads and then blew them out and invited the kids to come up and try. About this time was when my camera went to sleep.

Es todo!