Chrissy's Photo A Day

Squirt and Kels before the Homecoming Dance. Got to the florists two minutes before closing Got the last descent corsage Picked out a tie fo...

My students presented their penguin houses and had the melt-off today. It was fun and a little chaotic.

I drove by V School today, the school that I started in 1995 and taught at until 2004. It looks different with the trees gone and I still mi...

My students are getting ready for their penguin house competition tomorrow.

Today Dan and I went to the Garlic Festival. It was crowded but the weather was nice. We sat and listened to this Scotch-Irish band that was...

My students are building little houses for the ice penguins to keep them from melting. I am teaching them heat transfer. Professor Goodling,...

Playing with the light. Shadows of me and Frisbee. The setting sun coming in and lighting up James (our piece of furniture that has a name.

I watered this thing last week and set it up to grow under my grow light, and Monday morning it had grass hair! The class thinks it's th...

Aza came home. Mittens is happy. See Mittens rubbing up against Aza as she reads? Her big sister is home and we are all happy. P.S. Upon a c...

I ordered these penguin ice cube trays for my students' Save the Penguins design project. I took this photo because of the phenomena whe...

Squirt can solve a Rubiks Cube in 1 minute 30 seconds. He's a genius.

This is Mittens jumping down from my desk into my lap. She likes it in my lap. Does she like the warmth? Or me?

This morning I put all the clay tiles in a container to take to school. The tiles will be used for a construction project. It took me foreve...

Sunday. I miss the Bonneville. It reminded me of my girls. They are grown up and moved away, but their shared car reminded me of them every ...

I got my hair cut today. Actually cut into a style. It's not drastic or anything, but it was a big deal for me to see my long long bangs...

Today was our solar car competition. A group of four girls came in first, and a group of four boys came in second. I like when that happens....

The driveway without the "black car" in it. I'm sorry Aza, I tried to save it but your father wouldn't listen. Today was a...

Oh my way to school I got behind this truck full of dead trees. It made me sad and afraid of getting hit by one. So, I took a picture while ...

Before I left for work this morning I took a picture of the Bonneville. It was Jes's first car, then Aza's first car, and now it...

It starts out as pieces and parts, and hopefully my 6th graders can make solar cars this week.

After two months of playing with my blue foam stuff daily, this is what it looks like. Today is Saturday and I had an awful week and I'm...

I got one of my students to take this photo. I had just crashed up a motor with a huge hammer (I safely put the motor in a bag and wore safe...

Today I got a birthday present from my sister. It was a nice surprise, and I look forward to reading the book and watching the movie. I don...

22 years. Two identical rings. Two kids flown the nest, two complicated careers, two lives intertwined forever.

Front door with sun setting. Got a migraine today after school. It foreshadowed what would be a sucky week.

Dan came back from Wisconsin today. I worked all weekend on school work and got ahead for the week. Here's Frisbee in his chair. It was ...

This is D. D is Squirt's best friend, I think. They were in a band together a couple years ago and D spent every Saturday night here for...

Today Igor came and observed me teaching. I'm teaching three classes a day now, and it's exhausting. I had class tonight at the uni...

Today I turned 44. Jes and Squirt and Dan helped me celebrate with Angel food cake, whipped cream, and strawberries. I got the season 3 Gray...

My tripod lever sheared off and I sent this picture to the manufacturer. They are sending me a new one. Tommorrow is my birthday!

I got this xray today of Squirt's back. He needs more surgery in a year and a half to remove some of the hardware because it's promi...