Fun Times

Today, Sarah and I were planning on going to the beach. Even though it was bright and sunny in Conway, once we got to Surfside, it looked really cloudy, and we didn't want to take the chance of getting stuck in the rain, since we were having to pay to park at the state park.
Anyway, we went to check out the progress on our house, and it's coming along well. As far as we could tell (we can't go in, but we looked through the windows), all of the painting was done and the garage door was installed.
Then we went to try out a new restaurant - Panda, which is in Carolina Forest near the Kroger. The food was good and priced well, but we were the only customers there, and it was lunchtime on a Saturday. Weird.
Well, after that, we went to Wal-Mart, bought Clue and Monopoly, and spent the majority of the rest of the day playing games. Most of the time, Sarah won (every time we played Monopoly she won), but I had a few victories.
All in all, even though we didn't get to go to the beach like we wanted to, it was an awesome day. I really enjoyed getting to spend a whole day with my wife and not worry about anything else. Maybe we can do it again tomorrow :-)

Starting off badly

So, before the tardy bell even rang before first block today, a fight broke out in my room. It was over within a few minutes, but that is a horrible way to start off a day and a week. Hopefully tomorrow shall be better.

We made it through

Last night Tropical Storm Hanna came through. Basically, it was a great big thunderstorm. Other than that, we didn't have any problems whatsoever. Anyway, Hanna is gone, and it looks like we're completely avoiding Ike. Woohoo!


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Date Night!

Tonight, Sarah and I got to reinstate date nights. We were both excited about getting to go out and spend some time together outside of the house. And guess what we did!

We went to Dream Dinners and prepared a bunch of meals for the month of September, and now all of those prepared meals are in the freezer just waiting for us to cook and eat. It's going to save time in the evenings that would normally have been spent prepping meals, and it's about the same price as the grocery shopping would have cost.

School was canceled for tomorrow due to the "hurricane." Sarah and I don't think we're going to get too much bad weather here in Conway, but only time will tell. We'll keep our eyes on the news tomorrow and head inland if we have to.

The good news...we do not yet own our house at The Farm yet, so if anything is damaged there, we aren't responsible for it, but DR Horton will be taking care of.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Open House

Tonight was Open House at NMBHS. There was a pretty good turnout of parents. I was glad to get to meet some parents and talk about their sons'/daughters' strengths and weaknesses. It helped me to get a better view of some of my students, while reinforcing some ideas I had about some others.

Anyway, I think the next couple of weeks will really show what my students are capable of, since we'll be getting into new stuff. I'm excited, and I know my students are going to prove that they're completely capable of everything I throw at them.