Shelly's Blog

One of the best things about blogging is finding friends all over the world. (In an awesome way, not a creepy chat-room type way.) We're lucky because we've built a community of people we can count on, even if they're people we've never met. Here is a guest post that proves the amazing power of the internet: My name is brandy. And I have a blog .And a plea.I use my blog to showcase the crazy I meet everyday, share the stories of the kids I teach and document my love for tequila, dairy products and the abdominal muscles of Ryan Reynolds. Rarely do I talk about personal issues on my blog- as personal as the dude that I adore (who I actually met through my blog- single ladies, let that be a very good reason to blog, the possibility of meeting someone as wonderful as my man), but I need your help. And it involves my dude.He's a guy who made math comics for my class, so they would love learning about addition. He's the kinda guy who sends my friends gift cards when t

Once again, I managed to ignore my blog for a couple of weeks. We have been so busy that I just haven't had a chance for any updates, but I'll try to make up for it with our month in pictures: Alyssa's Christmas program at school was "The Fear Not Factor" and she played an angel in the choir of angels. After the Christmas program, the class had a party. They had lots of food and exchanged gifts with their Secret Santas. We brought Abigail and Ashley home with us and ended up going to Imaginations to paint. The older girls painted Minnie Mouse and the younger girls painted a wall plaque that said LOVE. Over the weekend, we decorated sugar cookies to give as gifts to some neighbors for Christmas. We hosted Christmas Eve at our house and invited both Glenn's and my side of the family. We had a big crowd, but everything turned out really nice. Christmas Day, the girls got exactly what they wanted. Alyssa got a DSi and Jessica got an ipod touch, among many other th