The Tag

What is your husband's name? Kraig Allen
2. Who eats more? Ummm...I'm a girl. Of course Kraig does ;)
3. Who said, "I love you" first? My baby daddy.
4. Who is taller? Well, on those special occassions when I wear my four inch heels, I am.
5. Who is smarter? Dealing with trivial knowledge or how to fix or build something - Kraig. Everything else - ME!!
6. Who is more sensitive? Kraig, can you believe it. I am rarely sensitive.
7. Who does the laundry? Usually, I do. Kraig will help out if we get overloaded.
8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I am...when we be laying in it.
9. Who pays the bills? Kraig has to pay all of the company's bills so I am stuck with the household ones.
10. Who cooks more? Well, I have a giant pig-fibber who believes (in his fantasy world) that he does.
11. Who is more stubborn? Stubborn...no one at this house is stubborn. We are slightly strong-willed though. I'll never admit to being stubborn!
12. Who is the first to admit they are wrong? I am because I hate to be silent. I have an opinion or a joke about anything, just about.
13. Who has more siblings? We are equal, both have two siblings.
14. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Kraig wears the pants, but I like to hide out in the back pockets.
15. What do you like to do together? Watch Survivor and MAD TV, go to the movies, play with the Bickerman's and listen to his long, drawn out work stories...those are the best. :)
16. Who eats more sweets? Kraig doesn't eat sweets at all. Therefore, I would win this category hands down and win the title of Candy Queen and Princess Coke Slurpee.
17. Guilty Pleasures? chips and salsa, slurpees for me, and iced tea for him.
18. How did you meet? I was coaching at a local high school and his sister was the assistant coach. He came to watch his sister coach. He found me to be not only beautiful, but oh so very intelligent also. He took me to a company dinner and he still remembers that I had on cream tights with my dress. There goes the beautiful and intelligent comment...of course, he was two hours late. Anyways, we met, kissed, fell in love, and now he is my babies' daddy.
19. Who asked whom out first? He did.
20. Who kissed who first? I cannot even remember that far back.
21. Who proposed? He did.
22. His best features and qualities? He reminds me of my dad, can fix or build anything, works hard on everything, growing in his relationship with the Lord, and continues to change bad habits. He may not be a talker or a fellowshipper, but this guy will work hard! See lower post on the Oprah paw.

Gotcha...

Kaleb has been taking art lessons on Wednesday nights. He found this dragon in a book and did a pencil drawing. He was very proud!

See the feet in this picture. You're probably wondering what in the world is going on at the Klein house. I just happened to run across the picture and when I asked the boys what was going on. Of course, I don't know was in my house. I felt like I was reading a Family Circle Sunday comic. So... those feet can't be Kaleb's. No way! AND...I'm sure that he wasn't telling Trevor to do the worm and that he'd take a picture. No, not the Bickerman's! The next picture is even better...I'm such a careful mom.

First, I thought this was a cute picture of Trevor trying to balance on the bed post. Oh no...he was balancing on the closet that Kraig made up in their room. Now, you need to know that on the other side of this is the steps to downstairs. Probably a good 10-12 foot drop. What were these two boys thinking????? And to think that I was actually wondering why my hair was starting to turn gray. Never a dull moment.

attendance

Well, the honeymoon is over. I had my first "bad" day at AHHS and it was a doozy. I have two girls who continually skip my class so that they can go to lunch with the older kids. I left my 3 students doing their work with another teacher so that I could go and search for them. I came up with nothing and went down to the office to have them paged. My principal came down and was angry WITH ME that they were skipping. Now, I do understand that I could have called home on them sooner, but I forget by the end of the day. I was "spoken to" about not calling their home much sooner. To say that I was upset would have been an understatement!
I cannot make these girls come to class. I don't see them in the hallways before 4th hour to persuade them into the classroom. I take attendance on the computer every hour and we have an attendance secretary. At what point does attendance become the problem of the teacher? I am perplexed and angry that my teaching students is no longer sufficient. I am tired of having to wear different hats because students refuse to come to school or class. Each parent has access to the Attendance and Grade book from a computer. So, I am curious. What are your expectations of a teacher if your child were missing a lot of classes? (Mind you, the girls had poor grades and attendance during the last 3 years.) Do you think that you would already know?

Because of this situation, I called four other students with high absence rates. Left messages on 2 answering machines...no kids in school today. I spoke with one mom whose daughter had 19 absences. She wasn't shocked and thought her daughter only had 10 or 11. Really? Only 10 or 11 - ummmmm, that's two weeks of school. The other boy had left our school two weeks ago. Maybe it's me?

My hard-working man

Kraig has been working so hard and found out today that hand injury number 4,679 has an infection. I'm telling you, I better take out some more life insurance. The lady at Med-Express asked him if he had a recent tetanus shot and of course he answered that he had one only a week and a half ago. Maybe I should buy some bubble wrap like we mentioned in earlier posts!
Anyways, Kraig let the boys keep the trampoline up because they just knew the weather would get better...said in a whiney tone, of course. So, tonight after seeing a movie, the three boys went outside and worked to take down the netting. Well, two boys worked and Trevor monkey just hung around. We enjoyed that last bit of warm weather and now on to ski season.