Well, it looks like we might only have 1 or 2 days of school this week. Winter be damned! It's been one storm after another, and they're predicting another BLIZZARD around January 20th. Me thinks the city of 0maha won't even have cleared our street off by then. (This is the part where I would usually laugh it up, but unfortunately, this could actually be true.)
At least we met with the kids yesterday for a full school day, and Monday was a teacher in-service. I was very excited on Monday, because one of my teacher goals may come true. IF everything goes right, I will be teaching a college course at the high school, and my students will be able to receive college credit in Written Composition!
See Mom--that master's degree in English is coming in handy! I got out of teaching broadcast journalism (I HATE IT!), but I will still have 4 different classes to prepare for. And, you know what, I'm okay with that. Now, only if I could find someone to take over the yearbook, I would be in 7th heaven.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Charity
Jeff and I have been helping the less fortunate this year for Christmas... and I hope I can rub some of ourselves off onto our readers and friends. I know it's Christmas and money is tight, but some of these below can be helped at any time throughout the year.
This year we've chose the following:
1.) Catholic Charities (this was through work). I selected an item from the giving tree.
2.) http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ This link is from a gaming site that has worked with Children's Hospitals to get Wish List's from Amazon.com. Since there are 2 hospitals here in Omaha (I wanted Mercy from Sioux City, for personal reasons, but they are not listed) I bought items for the Nebraska Med Center and Jeff is buying items for the Children's Hospital. Don't worry, just because this is for charity and comes from a gaming site doesn't mean that it's expensive stuff. I bought books and DVD's... and it barely cost like $30.
3.) http://anysailor.com/ We're sending letters to sailors (because my Dad was in the Navy, we choose the Navy). You can send all kinds of items to the soldiers, but we're doing just letters from this site right now (we'll do more later--see #4).
4.) My bank back home (well, technically not home, it's in Denison) is offering to send items to our troops for free. All you have to do is take it into the bank by December 31st, and they'll send it in a huge shipment. So, instead of paying for shipping right now with #3, we thought we'd save a couple bucks by shipping this way and thus can get more for the troops.
Remember, even if it's just a letter to soldier...or a can to a food drive, it's appreciated by someone!
This year we've chose the following:
1.) Catholic Charities (this was through work). I selected an item from the giving tree.
2.) http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ This link is from a gaming site that has worked with Children's Hospitals to get Wish List's from Amazon.com. Since there are 2 hospitals here in Omaha (I wanted Mercy from Sioux City, for personal reasons, but they are not listed) I bought items for the Nebraska Med Center and Jeff is buying items for the Children's Hospital. Don't worry, just because this is for charity and comes from a gaming site doesn't mean that it's expensive stuff. I bought books and DVD's... and it barely cost like $30.
3.) http://anysailor.com/ We're sending letters to sailors (because my Dad was in the Navy, we choose the Navy). You can send all kinds of items to the soldiers, but we're doing just letters from this site right now (we'll do more later--see #4).
4.) My bank back home (well, technically not home, it's in Denison) is offering to send items to our troops for free. All you have to do is take it into the bank by December 31st, and they'll send it in a huge shipment. So, instead of paying for shipping right now with #3, we thought we'd save a couple bucks by shipping this way and thus can get more for the troops.
Remember, even if it's just a letter to soldier...or a can to a food drive, it's appreciated by someone!
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