My, my, how could I resist ya?

Can you believe that the school year is already half way through? I can't! I am now a .5 year teacher. Yay me!

We ended the last week before break on a fairly good note. On Thursday we had our class holiday party. I was anticipating craziness and an exponential hair loss on my part. Boy was I wrong. It went surprisingly well and the kids listened and followed directions very well. We had a great time and I think it helped that we had several stations for the kids to rotate to. There was cookie decorating, ornament making, draddle game, tortilla making with Mr.Sosa, and then the food and drink station where they relaxed and chatted it up with friends. There were a few parents there and they were a tremendous help. I manned the tortillas and they did everything else. It is nice to have fantastic parent support in the classroom.

That evening I went to a "Dirty Santa" party with some of the younger/crazier teachers from my school. It was a blast. We enjoyed some adult beverages and some hearty conversation. Then we did the white elephant gift exchange. The gifts that were brought were up to the interpretation of what you thought "Dirty Santa" meant. Needless to say I headed home with my very first set of cock rings.

Friday was pretty much a bust as far as classroom management goes. The kids were done and ready for their vacation. Needless to say we did a lot of filler activities and spent some time in the computer lab. The free computer lab time was part of my gift to the kids and I think they liked that more than the gift I actually gave them. Which was a set of pencils with their names on them, a tiny ruler, and a legit hand lens for investigating.

The bell sounded and the students cleared out for their winter break. The faculty and staff were headed off to Chuy's for happy hour to celebrate a great 1/2 year. I headed over after putting my Christmas decorations away and tidying up my classroom a bit. When I got there I was amazed to see the entire bar area taken up by my school. It was pretty funny. As I walked in I was greeted by everyone with a "Yay Jesse is here!" I felt like a celebrity. A good time was had by all.

Saturday is where my blog title comes from. Jackie and Katie are the 2 friends I hang out most with so we were going to get together to have our mini Christmas gift exchange. Katie and Jackie came over to my apartment and we had lunch before opening presents for each other. I was certain that I would get the movie "Mamma Mia" from one of them, but to my dismay I didn't. I did get a lot of nice gifts from them. When we were done somehow we got into talking about how I needed a puppy. We talked about how we all saw a sign down the road from me that advertised puppies. We decided to check it out. I really hadn't anticipated getting a puppy, but boy was I wrong. They were in a little trailer on the side of the road and I was skeptical. However, they were pretty legit. They had their papers and were up to date on their shots. They even gave a bag of dog food away with the pup. We were playing with a few of them. Jackie got out a little boy pup and Katie and I got out little girl pups. One of the girls we got out was the littlest of the litter, however she had spunk. She was beating up all the other dogs who were bigger than her. I fell in love. Jackie got the boy she had picked out, and I took the spunky, feisty little girl. I named her Mia. I knew I would be getting some type of Mamma Mia that day. My Mia Farrah is a salt and pepper miniature schnauzer. Pictures will be posted soon!