No More Leftovers - Time to Leave the House

This is how our house has looked for the last five days.

I'll spare you an image of how we have looked.  Suffice it to say that when I put my contacts in this morning, my eyes were like, what the crap is going on??  With several inches of snow on the ground outside, G tromped off to work, and I headed out for a tutoring sesh.

And look!  My student got a puppy for Christmas!  Guess what we did for an entire hour?  Spelled words related to pets, wrote sentences about the dog, sounded out words about animals, etc.  L-O-V-E.  I tutor this dude several times a week and plan to load up on baby puppy lovins.

It's not all puppies and rainbows over here, though.  I've gotten one (very surprised) student inquiry about a grade.  Howwwww can your grade possibly be a surprise, I want to screech ask.  I spend a lot of time trying to tally the pros and cons of teaching in my head in such a way that the pros come out on top, but I have yet to manage that.  **sigh**

Meanwhile, there's this one.  We call this position "The Loch Ness Monster."  It has earned her a new nickname: Nessie.

That's a stupid nickname.

Someone please take down these tacky Christmas decorations.

Since we have not a clean dish in the house, I guess I best do something about that.  I considered eating cereal with a large serving spoon this morning.