Back to the grind of things!

Well, thanks to so many of our friends that have told us over the holidays "whoa, you guys get off how long?!"  Ya, we know, it is a long break, and we love it, but its not a "paid vacation" or anything like that.  We work only 196 days a year, I sometimes wish that we could work a full 12-months with some "paid vacation."

Anyways, we have no students today, it is a work day.  Thank goodness really, I did not do much over the holidays regarding school, nor did Laura except for one day that we worked on a new computer lab for her school.  I have been working on lesson plans, display boards (anyone like to help?) and the after school tutoring program that I am coordinating, starting on Thursday.

Tonight I get to begin teaching my first of two classes at the Community College , so now officially I guess you can call me "Professor Belanger!"  Ha  Tonight's class is called Introduction to Blogging.  Should not be a difficult class for the teacher or the students.  I taught it to 2nd-7th graders over the summer...  The next class will be in February, it is called Digital Photography I, in that class I plan to go over not only how to use the camera that they have, but how to make/share online photo albums.  I think that most of the people that plan to take this class are seniors, or what we call snow-birds in our community.

Today is also the first day that Malik and Maia have stayed home for a significant amount of time, alone.  I doubt that Maik will have eaten her, or done much else than Malik sleeping on the back of the couch, and Maia sleeping in between the sliding-glass-door & curtains enjoying some sun.

Ian, out!