Bitten to perfection

For all you teachers out there, for it being her first year my wife is way ahead of where she should be in the teaching world. On her first day of school this year she finished the day out puking in the kindergarden bathroom (she teaches kindergarden) she has had to deal with upset parents because their child was kissing a boy under a blanket at naptime. She has had to deal with a list of other things that aren't appropriate to mention. But the lasted came yesterday. It was close the end of the day, and all the kids were sitting on the carpet criscross (indian style) and one of her students refused to sitdown, so she said "we are going to wait until everyone is where they are supposed to be, we will wait as long as it takes." This kid then proceeded to walk around draw pictures on other people's paper and then rip them up and throw the pieces on the floor. All the other kids told him to sit down and he got mad, and said "fine Im just gonna leave." Erin (my wife) said "if you leave you can walk straight to Mr. Patten's classroom (the feared classroom). My wife walked after him and had to try and get him off the floor and into Mr. Patten's classroom. The Kid then proceeded to chomp and latch on to my wife's arm. He bit her through a long sleeve shirt and broke the skin. She was bleeding! I don't know about anyone else but I know I would've lost it. Travis (Mr. Patten) said the same thing as me. So I guess that means that my wife can really keep her composure, she started to cry a little, but otherwise she treated the situation amazingly.

So hats off to all you teachers out there that have to put up with so much crap, still keeping you sanity and composure over everything. Thanks for showing up day after day.

Just got an email

from my brother-in-law who is in iraq. if there are people that don't know me real well or don't know exactly whats going on my and my family's life, my sister's husband (Rodell Nydam) has spent the past year in iraq, providing convoy security and dismantling road side bombs. He is based in Ramadi. Anyway he just sent us an email, that he will definately be home for Christmas. This is great news to our family, but we are still holding our breath because I just saw on the news yesterday that 10 marines were killed in Ramadi, and Rodell's unit is attached to the marine unit there. Rodell's job, just like everyone else's job, is and was a very dangerous one where they have encountered explosives quite a bit. Anyway we are holding our breathe until he finally gets home. So I am asking everybody for prayer that Rodell gets home safely. If everything goes as planned he'll be home before Christmas.

thanks