Happy Early Valentines Day to all of you out there.

Since the holiday lands on a Saturday, we here at schools across America will have to observe the holiday on Friday. Working at an elementary school, one can almost cut through the electricity with a knife. The kids are all hopped-up on chocolate, and the good-will that only a Valentine can bring. I really like the way that kids are allowed to enjoy the holidays when they're this age.

Since I work as a specialist, pulling kids out of class, big holidays are tough days for me. Of course the kids don't want to leave class when something "cool" is going on, so I am left to work on the things that I would normally not have time for. A luxury that I am definitely thankful for.

I will have time to set up and fill my new bookshelves with new textbooks (yay!), I have to schedule conferences, I need to write some reports, I need to get a few letters written, and there are a dozen-or-so things that I may be leaving out. Even though I won't be seeing as many kids as I usually do during the day, I am sure that I will go home more worn-out than usual.

Oh well, three day weekend is coming up. Yay!