Yeah. This is a good idea...

Think a waiver for NCLB is a good thing? Check this out! After what parents managed to do to South imagine what a few hundred signing a freaking petition can do.Just more scary shit.

"Teensy Gains in test scores in the last four years" a good editorial...

MINNPOST... a blog I like; good reading.

I am tired.

You know? The last week has been about as incredible a week as I have ever had in my career. It is almost impossible to believe that so much could go so wrong so quickly in a school ( I typed "my" school but I am quickly losing any Wildcat Pride that I ever had & so changed it. Yeah. I am sad about that. REALLY sad.) . I feel as if I am in a boat that is sinking. I know that it will right itself but I have some pretty messed up emotions. I really like Dr. Nolan & think that he got shad upon. That makes me want to work really hard for him. But I liked Eric too & worked very hard for him as well & as far as I am concerned, he did the "shadding" so I'm a bit confused right now.

And I am tired. I am so glad that my trip to Seattle was so wonderful (I don't use that word frequently so it means something) because it has put this other crap in perspective. It makes me think of what my Mom has always told me & I typically fight against because it is a poor reflection on my profession but right now I am internalizing "It is a job not a mission" & that is also sad but for me true.

I am going to have to get used to the fact that my career may not end on a high note.But then again, I DO have a choice in how I look at things I guess. Holly & Andrea keep posting because right now you are the stars in a dark sky.

Miss you,

Mary

Trip to Seattle was fantastic!

Giles & his wife Gail. Adore them both. Giles is very intelligent and very odd. He had questions about his grandmother... my Mom had many of the answers he was looking for. She wasn;t in De Dattle but we did a speaker phone call in the kitchen. She had some good stories for Giles & he is intensely interested.

I spent two days with Bink on his boat on the Sound & Lake Union. Quality time I needed. Went to dinner at Rays and then the locks with Donna & my nieces. Really quality time. Donna & I managed to spend more than 12 hours together without screaming at each other and making an embarrassing spectacle of ourselves. Rare. About time at almost 60 & 55 ehhhhhhhhh?

Weather beautiful. More picts later.

F

Ryker Puckett...born on my B-Day!

Colin's son, Ryker, was born 3 hours ago by C section. He is a little early but things are looking good. Not sure what this all means for the Puckett reunion as it was being hosted by Ryker's Grandpa in Seattle.... but I'm leaving on a jet plane anyway!!! May just have to hang out at Pike's Market for two day! DARN IT!!!!!!

Superstitious me.

I am not riding my motorcycles even though it is absolutely beautiful outside because next Thursday is a milestone that will change Dan's and my life and I need to be alive on that day. I will be 55 years old on September 8th, 2011 and thus will be vested in TRA and entitled to a monthly pension check from the fund when I decide to retire. Before that day I would only be entitled to a smaller lump sum....

I have known this for quite some time & quite honestly, every time I mounted either baby GZ or Flash this summer it went through my mind that I was possibly putting our financial future at risk but I am a risk taker .... to a point. And I have reached that point.

I will begin to ride not September 9th,10th,11th or 12th because I will be in Seattle, but after that the leathers will come out!!! WOOT!!

Flash.... a young 54 :)

Puckett Reunion!

Next weekend. Here is Alan... I will be seeing his son Giles . I met both when I was a teenager. Can't wait!! Go to the link...it's interesting:)

Flash!