Claire's Birthday

Today Claire is 62 and it seems like we should be celebrating in some fashion. I phoned her this morning and got Raymond as she was at Rockwood Clinic getting medicine for her sinus cold. I know she will be getting her Social Security check anyday now so just having her own special stash to spend is a big birthday gift.

I think I will like blogging as I only will have to write this material on one email. It is very sunny today and it looks nice just sitting inside and seeing it.

I helped Arlene at Sacred Heart today and she assigned me one sixth grade boy who would not look at me or acknowledge me in anyway. He then got a 15 minutes time out so he could sit in a chair and kick the file cabinet. Finally he agreed to work with me. When I asked who is teacher was he answered that I was kind of nosey about things that were not my business. He let his papers fall on the floor and of course I picked them up. He started with the easiest paper first and did label the parts of the eye quickly. Then he chose a math paper and I timed how long it took him to do one row of fractions-14 seconds. He is not a slow learner. We had a good time when I discovered he liked to talk about computers and game boys. I wish I could remember the differences between x boxes, game boys, pokemon, and computer games. I do know that Halo1 is on the computer but so far Halo2 is not. I may go back a few more times. It is a disorganized, chaotic classroom just because of the age range and the different abilities in the room. I don't know how Arlene manages.

I took a nap when I got home. My mom is at Bridge. I'm heading to a Spinning class at 4:30.

I'll see if this makes it to the publishing segment.