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Good evening class! Today, let us talk about contractions. Is that not exciting? Why are contractions so useful? They would have helped me shorten the second and third sentences above. "Today, let's talk about contractions. Isn't that exciting?"

I really, really, REALLY hate seeing the amount of misspelled contractions floating all across my internet pages. They're CONTRACTIONS, people! SHORTENED short words. You just remove a vowel or a group of letters and put the apostrophe in where the missing letter(s) was! It's not that difficult!

So why do I continue to see this tragedy-ya'll? What in the world is /that/? Yahoo will? Yard wall? Yam bell? What? The proper spelling is y'all, in which the apostrophe takes the place of the missing 'ou' in the word 'you'. They're is a contraction in which the apostrophe takes the place of the 'a' in the word 'are'. Let's is a contraction in which the apostrophe takes the place of the 'u' in the word 'us'. You see? It's not that hard, is it? Can we please try to do a little better? My 9-year-old gets this. Why can't grown adults get this? Why can't college freshman get this? What in the world is wrong with us?

Ok. I'm done with my rant. :)

What In the World?

Where did my weekend go?? Oh, yeah. Now I remember. I sacrificed my weekend for one of my children. It was worth it. It was worth it. It was worth it. I'll just keep telling myself that. I'm sure I'll believe it enough to go through with it again next year at some point. I'm still wiped out from Friday night! I sure hope tonight is a good sleep night. We have school tomorrow and I need to be awake for that. I've been known to talk in my sleep from time to time but I'm pretty sure teaching in my sleep is a bit far-fetched, even for me.

The sky is a lovely shade of dark grey-blue tonight. I'm wondering if the stars will make an appearance. The cool air of last night was so awesome! It's good to be heading into autumn. I really do think autumn is my favorite time of year. School is getting started again. The holidays are coming around again...well, the fun ones, anyway. I don't know how fun they'll be this year since we don't live in town anymore. We'll just have to see, I suppose. I'll look forward to them until such a time as I don't have to look forward anymore.

My kids played outside for most of the afternoon and, I have to say, the quiet of the house was most enjoyable. I love that quiet part of the day when the kids are still asleep or they are outside. Then I can hear myself think. It's really important for me to hear those random rumbly thoughts that roll around in my head. Some of you know what I mean. Thoughts like "boy, I wish I had some chocolate chip cookies" or "gosh! I think I'll turn the AC back on" or "shucks! I clicked the wrong icon and my player died!" Yeah, those kind of important thoughts.

Well, I better get off of here. I am going to put the wee bairns to bed and then go crash in my own bed.
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