FAMILY NIGHT

As the weeks come and go, it is hard to keep track of days as they all tend to run together. Between teaching, coaching, weddings, naps, waking up at 4, hospitals and room mates, everything blends together into one big blur. However, we always tend to remember Thursday nights; the nights set aside each week to come together as a house for supper and an evening of fun or learning. However, parent teacher conferences are always held on Thursday nights, and seem to come every three weeks. I have had more parent teacher conferences this year than I ever had as a student in my whole educational career. As I sit listening to the meeting, and meeting with parents, all I could think about was my room mates at home, participating in the most fun "family night" of them all. ELF night!

To get into the Christmas spirit, we have decided to all watch the movie ELF staring Will Ferrell as one of Santa's elves, who is really a human, that travels to NYC to meet his father. It is a classic Christmas movie. I love it, and watch it every year, once, twice or maybe even five times. It never gets old and laughs come out just as hard on the fifth time as the first. But, remember, I am stuck at parent teacher conferences.

I get out of there as soon as I can, and head straight for home, not stopping for any fast food or beach scenes. I can get these any time. But not ELF. Christmas only comes once a year, and I am not missing the first viewing.

As I walk in the door extremely excited, the "family" is around the table eating a Texas Chicken dish, and just finishing their last bites. Thankfully, they had saved a plate for me, as I filled with with the food, and began devouring everything in site, including the freshly cut avocados that never get old. Apparently, the movie had not been started yet, as they WERE waiting for me. This got my adrenaline rolling as I helped get the dishes done so we could watch it. (What a stupid thing to be excited about, BUT...the movie is totally worth it.)

We all sat down, got out the movie and controls, took our seats and began the movie. It proved to be just the same this time as the first, and just as funny. To make the movie more interesting, some of the house mates decided we should make paper snow flakes to go along with the movie. I showed my skill as I made the scissors fly around the edges. Now, after a very (what seemed to be) short movie, we have a house full of snow. Possibly the only house in Miami!

(What a horrible thing to blog about, but the day was about as bland as they have came. Well, the good parts were. I am just getting kind of tired of writing about negative things at school, and wanted a little cheer in my life!)