Peaceful

I find old fences like this comforting.................wish it could talk................I am sure it has seen many things..................

Overwhelmed!!!!

January and February are SUPPOSED to be cold and quiet months..............dark months of sitting by the fire, going to bed early....................using all your energy just to stay warm..........
That has not been the case here. Work has been about as stressful as it can get...........as the kids say............DRAMA, DRAMA!!! MY own children have been busy and LOUD! and my husband has become obsessed with getting a dog..............let's not talk about that one today...........the guy working on our house yelled at me yesterday for not paying enough attention to him.............let's not talk about that one either right now..............A few weeks ago I decided the next 6 months were going to be about me saying NO and only doing what had to be done. Well, yesterday it all fell apart and I just wanted to go in a dark room and rock for about an hour.............As I was saying goodbye to the wrestling team as they left for regionals in front of our highschool.............a police car pulled up with 4 big black men in it.............they rolled the window down and handed me a sealed folder..................then, the driver, who I knew, told me he wanted me to..........are you ready for this???????????? be his campaign manager because he is running for sheriff.............I came home and got in bed!

Shubert Mass

Staff and Students sang the Shubert Mass last night................let's just say I am really rusty........but it was fun to sing with some of the people I work with and the kids in my programs......We had an intervention for the young man above and I must say he breaks my heart.............the gentleman is one of our school policeman............he was part of our intervention. J and this young man are both unmedicated ADD and remind me so much of each other.............they had to meet last night.....

70 degree day.............

and the light is perfect............and I got lucky...............even with his sweaty basketball playing head, I still love this picture.

The Carrington

https://www.dongardner.com/plan_details.aspx?pid=326

Here is the link to the one of the River House plans we are looking at..........it isn't exactly what I want, but is close.....

The Story From Our TV News

February 3, 2009 Charlottesville High School's W.A.L.K program is helping people graduate., no matter what the circumstance might be. One local student says it was just we she needed to succeed during a difficult time. The pressure of high school can make it very difficult for some people to learn. One Charlottesville High School student wanted to tell her story anonymously. "I did not like coming to school. It was just too much drama to deal with the whole thing. There's a lot of kids here so there's a lot of people in the classroom. I couldn't get anything done," said the student. Then she found out she was pregnant. "This year I was struggling because of my pregnancy and trying to get out of school before the baby was born. So I did all my classes in NovaNET," she said. NovaNET is an online course system offered through Charlottesville High School's W.A.L.K. program. They call it W.A.L.K. so students can eventually walk across the stage to get their diploma. "We're trying to reach out to students who are having difficulty graduating on time or who may be oppositionally defiant in classrooms," said Thomas Taylor, Principal of Charlottesville High School. "These kids are kids who aren't as comfortable in a traditional mainstream classroom. They have different learning needs," said Dianna Poe, an intervention specialist at CHS. They get individual attention, which relieves stress they would have in a large classroom. "The kids work on the computer and the computer is the teacher doing the instruction. Then the teacher gets to sit on the same side with the student and kind of help them," said Poe. Because of the W.A.L.K. program, this student went from failing to being on the right track. "I get to graduate on time with my classes instead of being held back a year because of my pregnancy or because of last year. I get to graduate on time with my class - never failing a year," the student explained. Principal Taylor says NovaNET has been around for a while. But this is Charlottesville High School's first full year of the program. He said he hopes to expand the program into a bigger space at CHS, so they can cater to more students. The W.A.L.K. program is available to CHS students during school, after school and in the evening. The program covers all subjects from health to english to math - whatever the student needs to graduate.

The Nightly News

Today the local news station came to school and I had to be interviewed........on air for one of our programs................I was really nervous and was so glad when it was finally over....................who in their right mind would want to be on tv all the time..............ugh! No, I will not be watching it tonight...............and hope nobody else sees it either!!!