millions of peaches...peaches for me.

Naked baby covered in peaches. Is there anything orange & sticky that is any cuter? I think not.

Finally I'm back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to go to San Diego for a teacher conference, which was somewhat worthwile but could have been done in an efficent 5.5 hours instead of 4 days. Teachers are extremely ineffecient when they all get together. A sample conversation:

Teacher 1: " Well, we should go with the blue folder."

Teacher 2: " What do you mean 'blue'? Would that denote some kind of sadness for the students?"

Teacher 3: " I got sad one time."

Teacher 2: " Sometime my pencil sharpener doesn't work."

Teacher 3: " So, blue it is. Freckles?"

Teacher 1: " No, pink would reinforce rigor with our students. Potbellied pigs don't have talons."

I'm not kidding you. Converstations like this droned on and on and on.

Teachers are very strange for the most part. I would hint that that strangeness was the bad kind, but I would not come out and say it for fear of lyching or even worse...being made to listen to more of their conversations.

Now, don't get me wrong...there are some outstanding educators out there. But that doesn't neccessarily mean that they act like normal people in the real world. Ugghhh. I'm glad to be home.I did get to go to the San Diego zoo though. It was really nice. I have always wanted to go there ever since I was little and Pop went there on a business trip and cam home raving about it. ALL of the monkeys reminded me of Caroline...every time I saw one, it made my heart hurt. I could actualy feel it cracking!! Everbody was represented at the zoo. I missed my little monkey ( caroline), bear ( Bing), wart hog ( Bridger- sorry, but it really looked like you, Bridger- it was very cute), tiger( Boudreaux) and capybara ( Jones).

By the way...I REALLY need a capybara. I mean, REALLY need.

Which I must add to my list. One day, we'll get a bit of land....I'm thinking 5 ares minimum.

We will have: countless dogs, one cat, one rabbit, one donkey, at least 3 goats named after English prime ministers, a jersey cow, one pig, a pond of various swimming creatures and a henhouse populated by a great big rooster named Ignacio and his harem of Afro chickens ( Crested Polish...they really exist.)Oh, and I will be needing both an aviary and an apiary. Both very seperate from each other in location.

Bing and Caroline survived quite well without me. Bing is such a good Popa. They are two peas in a pod. Soooooo cute. When Bing picked me up at the airport, Caroline was in the back chewing on some flowers she got me! they were both so excited to see me...it just melted my heart. It was late and Caroline was tired but she stayed up the whole way home laughing and playing with me ( I sat in the back, much to Bing's dismay/ cute "jealousy"). The dogs and Jones were happy to see me too but you could tell that Popa took real good care of everybody while I was gone.

Well, only 2 more weeks before school starts . The kids don;t come back till after Labor Day but I have to go in for " teacher training" Which means more endless conversations about "rigor"...the new favorite buzzword in education. " Students need more rigor." " there needs to be more rigor in the classroom". Needless to say, the infinite droning about rigor only leads to rigor mortis. Stupid rigor. Who even came up with that word?

Well, gotta go. It's raining outside ( BIG SURPRISE!), so I'm gonna get some Olympics in before Caroline wakes up. I love the Olympics. The opening ceremony was crazy though. It was tooooo long and too over the top. They spent millions of dollars trying to be so techno and even focused on an " one world, one environment" deal. It just seemed so hypocritical on the environmental stance and the humanatarian side too. I just kept thinking of all those poor earthquake victims and how just a little of that money and effort put into that opening cermony could have been steered their way. yeah, yeah...I know. I should get off my soap box. But I just thought it was tacky. Greece did it way better last round and spent millions less. But, the Parade of Nations was great as always. I love seeing all the atheletes from different parts of the world and how they are dressed.

Vaya con Dios, little chickies....