life and tires

Is life like getting new tires?  Well 2 of our tires on our car are bald and another isn't to far behind, while the 4th is brand new and the spare isn't in to bad of shape.  So yeh we are getting 4 new tires tomorrow.  Over $800 dollars.  Life and the lessons we learn are sometimes like that.  You wear life out until its bald and then you have to spend some money to get you refueled or safe to go again.  It may hurt (ouch $800 is a lot), but in the long run it is the best thing for you.

wes

so I needed to learn somethings about tires-like what are all the numbers on the tires mean.  well here is a link that might help if you are half way clueless like me.

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15 minute thoughts

For our life lessons I want to share thoughts that will take 15 minutes or shorter to write.  So you are now saying ok so.   I know that doesn't mean too much but I should be able to post more. 

I have heard today and saw someone tell me that they understood what we were talking about, yes they were doing ok on some of it, but then when someone else worked with them and after they left, they still didn't know as well as they were letting on.  to what we thought.

We are all like that, and then again, we might learn a lesson that those types of people really do know.

Wes

Who in the heck is Lisa Murkowski?   oooo she is a politician in Alaska.

Go Utah Jazz

Halloween?

The funnest Halloween's that I have had has been family parties.  They are with people you know and love and it is a lot safer anyway.  Besides that you can stay in front of the tv and watch college football and stay on top of the BCS rankings.
Happy Halloween.
wes

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another 2 hour meeting

Yep I just got out of a two hour meeting, helping me understand and be better at teaching science.  It was 2 hours long, and anther meeting on top of all the other things and meetings that I have to do and go to.   Do you ever feel like that?  But now that it is done and finished, it was a good meeting and I learned how to understand concepts and be better at teaching the "big ideas" of science.  Sometimes we get to complicated and don't focus on the main ideas that we need.  And understanding the main ideas actually make it easier to understand and know how everything works together better.  The same idea applies to our lives.  Sometimes we need to get to the basics and things will come together better and we will understand everything better.

Are we going to have any video stores anymore? Hollywood, Blockbuster what is going on?

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Are we going to have any video stores anymore? Hollywood, Blockbuster what is going on?  Well let me tell you what is going on, and you probably already know. One word. Redbox.  Or I guess the other big one is Netflix OK maybe it is two, what ever. So how am I going to relate this to our lives?  As I write this I don't have a clue.  Well, right now our TV is well half dead.  Ya it doesn't work, well we can play DVD and the old things, what are they called, o yes, VHS videos.  Yes I am still old school and have those, I don't have any Blu rays, or a Nintendo or Play Station or a Wii. O yes I would like one, my son really wants a Wii, but just don't have that kind of money laying around right now.  OK back to were I got sidetracked.  Sometimes we replace things in our lives that are good, and other times we replace some pretty important things with stuff that is not that critical.  So my point: we need to be really careful that we are not replacing the important stuff with other junk and filing chapter 11(like Blockbuster is going to do) spiritually, mentally or physically, or placing or family off to the side.

Wes



Hey look at what I found, it is not even out  yet.

I haven't made the best of decision when ever there is a decision placed before me, but I try I really do.  I got talking to a student today,  he was making some wrong choices that was affecting how he was acting and what he was allowed to do.  He said that he wanted to start over tomorrow, so he wasn't going to work today.  No we have to start today, because the choices that we make today are going to affect tomorrow, whether they are good or bad.  Today's  choices will affect tomorrow and possibly farther.  I got thinking, wow somebody should be giving me this talk, maybe someone was giving it to me, and using me as the mouth piece to try and teach myself.  Do you believe in a higher power? I do, and I'm thinking He was trying to talk to me.

Wes

Life comes at us from many angles, like a group of bullies picking on the little kid that has $5 for his lunch money for the whole week.  Where you feel like no one cares, because no one stops them or even asks to help you after they are gone.  I wonder how many of us put on a mask every time we walk out our doors and have to interact with the world.  there is no need for us to be hiding behind some kind of mask.  I will guarantee that there are many many people out there that is willing to help you in any way shape and form, we are just to stubborn to let them.  My challenge: let some one get to know you a little better and share some of their great self with you, as you share some of yourself.

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Back to School ll

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Back to School night was yesterday for us and I had one jam packed room. If you didn't know I am a teacher, 4th grade. If you are a parent you probally understand and know this. You really don't care what your kids are going to be learning, you care more about the teacher and if they are going to be a compatent teacher for your child. Or are you going to be like this teacher whipping the students the first chance you can.  4th grade really is a fun grade they want to learn.  I asked a ? of why 4th grade was the best one of my students said it was because we would be learning Cursive.    So it is just like the old saying.

They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

wes

A dog named Sheldon

Boys and puppies have a connection.
Our dog recently had puppies and my kids loved that, (I wasn't to thrilled about it, but...). One of the puppies was pretty smart and was able to get out of the pen that I had built for them. This was a smart puppy. So he started running around with my kids and my boy named him Sheldon. He had to have gotten it from his teacher's husband's name. Well my son and this puppy really had a connection, they knew what each other was going to do. My wife and I told our kids that they could keep this puppy if they took care of it. One of our neighbors kids wanted a puppy. What do you know they wanted this Sheldon, I didn't say anything about that he was the one that was named. Like a guy that had to many puppies, I was trying to get rid of them and let them take him. Yes that ended up braking my kids, and especially my boys heart.

Sometimes we as parents forget about what things are important to our kids. I hope that I will become more concerned about their feeling and desires.

Love your kids, and make sure that they know it.

Wes

Back to School

Life is just like "Back to School." How does it compare you say? Well doesn't it happen every year. It happens every year about the same time. Without fail Teachers will start getting their rooms ready. Parents and kids will be clogging up the stores buying school clothes and supplies. Buses will be on the road again. "Back to school" night will come and go and then there will be the first day of school. It is a cycle isn't it? You can look in life, any part of life and see cycles. The earth and moon have cycles, then there is summer, spring, fall and winter. Plants go through cycles. So do we as humans go through cycles, whether it is physical or not. Now that I think of it I don't know why I related "Back to School" with Cycles.

There is one thing that we can see it as. It is a consent thing in our lives. It will always happen. We may not be going to school or have a family member going, but it is still going to happen. Each of us have constants in our lives, sometimes we need to build our lives around these, if they are important enough. Others or constants that can bless us and help give us direction.

Well enjoy this school year.

wes