Emerald City Day=FAIL!

So....yeah.

Ever have one of those days {or weeks, months or years:)}

that doesn't go as planned?!?!?

I know.

Silly question to ask a bunch of teachers!

The first month of school was absolutely CRAZY!

It was crazy it many, many ways.

It could have been crazy in a bad way.

Bad stuff happened.

But I'm just so darn positive that I can't

help be thankful for how this school

year really has gotten off to a GREAT start!

Just with a lot of crazy thrown in there too;)

Ok, so here's how it all played out...

I purchased these two extrememly fabulous

units.

Babbling Abby's Wizard of Oz unit and Ashlee's

Fabulous Fairy Tales unit

from firstgradebrain.com.

Since our first theme for Open Court

Reading is "Sharing Stories" these units

were great ways to start everything off!

We had a blast and the kids LOVED

the week we spent on The Wizard of Oz.

Abby suggests having an "Emerald City"

day to end the unit and the kids were

definitely excited.

I saved a few of the science experiments from

the unit to do on that last day

and also planned to make one of

these babies!

Yep...a fabulous, tasy, rainbow cake!

That is a pic of the first {and only}

rainbow cake I've ever made.

It was for my niece's birthday

this past summer and it turned out pretty

darn good for a first try:)

So I was all ready to make another one

for Emerald City Day.

The night before, I was feeling lazy and

decided it would be much faster to make

rainbow cupcakes.

It went pretty well and my daughter

even sampled one....

That night, about 2am, I heard

her crying and could smell it before

I even opened her door.

Poor thing had gotten sick in her

bed:(

We cleaned up. Got her back to sleep.

I got back in bed and tried to fall

asleep.

Then she got sick again.

We cleaned up. Got her back to sleep.

And I think you get the picture.

This went on several times.

She was so sweet and was

apologizing for getting sick and making a mess, poor baby.

So I stayed home with her the next day

and had to miss Emerald City Day.

I went up EARLY that morning to write

my sub plans and decided there was

no way I could take the cupcakes.

What if it was the cupcake that made her sick???

What if I made the whole class sick???

I'd have so many angry parents!!!

I couldn't risk it.

So I kept thinking about how she probably

just had a stomach bug and the cupcakes were fine.

I didn't want to waste all that hard work

and the cupcakes looked awesome.

So the next day I ate one and nothing happened.

But then, Sunday came and I got sick:(

I still don't think it was the cupcakes,

but I couldn't risk it, even if we

did just catch a bug because my germs were

definitely all over those puppies.

As soon as I could pull myself off the couch

and felt alive again, I threw them all out:(

I was sooooo disappointed the kids

didn't get to have the kind of Emerald City Day

I had hoped for, but they still

did the science experiements

and wore green to celebrate!

So during the first

few weeks of August I had to move

my classroom, start school, found out I had

a torn retina, missed 2 1/2 days of school {already},

got the stomach bug, and took care

of a sick toddler!

But, I still declare it could have been worse,

and I can honestly say that overall I've enjoyed

the start to this year:)