Elk, Sonic the Hedgehog, Johnny Depp, and The Electric Cowboy

How's THAT for a good title?!? :) Well I'm sitting here wishing I had another weekend day because I am NOT ready to go back to school yet, but I did have a good week last week and a fun weekend. So let me explain the title:

Elk - as in on my porch. Yup - Wednesday night I was just getting nestled all snug in my bed when I heard what sounded like a herd of elephants on the other side of my bedroom wall. My porch wraps around 3 sides of my little house and on that side, the porch is pretty much on ground level, so I am instantly thinking people (scary!). Sherlock did NOT bark (weird) so I crawled out of bed and peeked out from behind my dresser. All I could see was something REALLY big on my deck, so now I am thinking animal (still scary!). At this point I said something out loud (that I will not repeat on my blog) and Sherlock started barking. Well the poor elk freaked out, but at this point he was 4+ feet up in the air on the front deck, and he was too big to turn around, so he kept going around the house at which point there are stairs going down. He hesitated for a few seconds and then took a flying leap down the stairs. I hope he was ok, but I also hope he NEVER comes back :)

Sonic the Hedgehog and Johnny Depp. Last week during math class, one of the students called me Mrs. Frostman. (As the only un-married 4th grade teacher, I get this a lot). So I corrected her and said I wasn't married - to which she responded that I should just get married so that they can just call me Mrs. So I asked who I should marry - which set off a very entertaining debate between the students. I only said the occasional "no" or "he's dead" and after about five minutes most of them had agreed on either Johnny Depp or Sonic the Hedgehog (video game/cartoon caracter). I said I didn't really want to have blue kids so I would go with Johnny Depp. :)

The Electric Cowboy - a fun dance club in Denver where a group of people went to celebrate a teacher-friend's birthday this weekend. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that I could really use another day to catch up on sleep... but I had a great time. It was worth it just to have fun with friends :)

Tomorrow we're off and running again... hope this week will be good too!