Boy, what a long week! It was a whole week sandwiched between 2 3 day weeks and it seemed like it was even longer than 5 days. You probably all know about our fires last week. Air quality was unhealthy all weekend and then again on Monday. That means we have to keep students inside after they had spent the whole weekend inside. One of my students decided to pull the arm on the fire alarm during lunch. Of course, we didn't know that at first and there are fires all around us. We still haven't found out who did it even though the principal put my whole class on punishment until we find out. I was out for a meeting on Tuesday and 4 of my boys got referrals from the substitute. That's pretty amazing because subs don't generally complain about too much. I guess they want the powers that be to think they can handle anything. Then, I also had something every night this week. I am looking forward to the weekend, even though I have lots of grading to do. The end of the trimester is Wednesday and I want to get at least part of my report cards done. Tomorrow will be Ella's last soccer game for the season. I will miss watching her play. She's come a long ways since September.We are looking forward to Thanksgiving with family. Only Jordan, Amity and Randi will be here of our kids but Mom, Dad, Gladys, Pete, Cheryl, Jerri and Mike will be here too. We haven't seen Amity, Jordan or the baby in a while. I wanted to go see them last weekend but the 91 fwy was closed due to the fires. Gladys had an accident last month so it will be good to have all Chuck's family here. Dinah & Rod will not be coming home. Holly got engaged so they are busy planning a wedding. We'll be going to Maui in March for that. At least that gives us something to look forward to!