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Thank goodness Christmas is so close. I am counting the days (6) of school before the nice long Holiday break. The holiday break is one of the reasons I love my job! Here are a few of the Christmas shows on this weekend. I'm looking forward to watching Olaf's frozen adventure and the holiday Christmas show at Walt Disney World. 12-12 8:00 PM ABC Olaf's frozen adventure 8:00 PM AMC Christmas With the Kranks 8:55 PM freeform The Santa Clause 2 12-13 6:45 PM freeform Home Alone 8:00 PM CW Hollywood Christmas parade 8:00 PM disney holiday Christmas party at Walt Disney World 9:15 PM freeform Home Alone 2 10:00 PM AMC The year without a santa claus 12-14 2:00 PM freeform Santa Clause 3 4:00 PM freeform Home Alone 5:00 PM AMC PolarExpress 7:00 PM AMC Elf 8:00 PM CBS Rudolph the red nosed reindeer 9:00 PM CBS Frosty the snowman 9:00 PM AMC Elf 9:30 PM CBS Frosty returns 12-15 7:00 PM AMC National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 7:45 PM freeform The Santa Clause...

If you enjoy the Rankin Bass Christmas specials then you need to watch AMC tonight and tomorrow as there is a Rankin Bass marathon. I enjoy watching all these Christmas specials. Some I will watch multiple times 11-30 9:00 PM AMC Elf 9:50 PM freeform The Santa Clause 2 11:00 PM AMC The Year without a Santa Claus 11:55 PM freeform The Santa Clause 3 12-1 2:00 AM AMC Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July 7:00 AM freeform Richie Rich Christmas wish 7:30 AM AMC Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas in July 12:15 PM AMC The Year without a Santa Claus 1:30 PM AMC Little Drummer Boy 3:30 PM AMC Rudolph's shiny new year 6:00 PM AMC National Lampoon Christmas Vacation 8:00 PM ABC Santa Claus is Coming to Town 10:30 PM AMC Christmas with the Kranks 12-2 7:30 AM freeform Muppet Christmas Carol 5:00 PM AMC Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 8:00 PM CBS Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 12-3 4:45 PM freeform Santa Claus is Coming to Town 5:50 PM freeform Home Aone 8:00 PM...

How is your holiday shopping going? I have barely started mine. I need to find time to get shopping. I love wrapping presents so I need to buy things to wrap. I am writing this post as I sit watching The Grinch on TBS. I am not very happy with TBS. They shortened the cartoon to fit in a 30 minute slot with commercials. Now "An Elf Story is coming on" I have never seen this one before. Here is a list of a few more specials coming up on tv date time channel show 11-24 11:00 AM freeform Miracle on 34th street 6:45 PM freeform Home Alone 7:00 PM TBS A Christmas story 11-25 7:00 PM AMC National Lampoon Christmas Vacation 11-26 11:00 AM AMC Legend of Frosty the Snowman 7:00 PM AMC Elf 11-27 8:00 PM ABC Charlie Brown Thanksgiving 9:00 PM NBC A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving 11-28 9:00 AM NBC Macy's parade 8:00 PM ABC Disney's Magical Holiday Celebration 11-29 8:00 PM CBS Frosty the Snowman 8:00 PM CW Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer 8:30 PM CBS Frosty ...

Halloween is over so that means its time to watch Holiday specials on television. I will be checking several listings every week and posting schedules here. I love watching all the Christmas specials. Starting November 1st the freeform station will be showing Disney movies every day. That makes me very happy. I love everything Disney! November 1st has Cars on at 6 and Zootopia at 8:30 November 2nd has 7 different Disney movies including Finding Nemo, Finding Dory and Moana November 3rd has Hercules, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast November 4th Beauty & the beast again and Toy Story Hallmark channel has Christmas movies on all day both Saturday & Sunday November 2nd and 3rd I'm so excited that Christmas is only 54 days away!

Norton Cross Country sponsored a 5K this morning at the high school. I enjoyed watching both students and teachers running. Saw a few alumni return for the run as well. Seemed like everyone had a good time, I certainly did. Great job to all the runners. Here are some scenes from the morning    

Only 23 days until school starts for students in Norton. My first workday is August 22nd so that means only 11 more days until I return to school. I am looking forward to another great year with awesome students. I am teaching Pre-Calc for the first time in 3 years so that has me excited along with Honors Algebra II for the first time in 6 years. My last two classes are my fun movie classes, Advanced Math Topics . We have a few changes at Norton High. We have a new principal, new assistant principal, and a new bell schedule. The school day will now end at 2:09 instead of 2:03. The complete bell schedule is posted on the math department page. Everyone enjoy the last 3 weeks of summer. Make the most of the time like I intend to and see everyone on Tuesday September 3rd.

I spent a nice relaxing day at the canal on Thursday June 27th. The weather was perfect and the views were beautiful. I packed a cooler with plenty of cold drinks and my lunch and spent seven hours reading my book and watching the many sailboats come through the canal. I applied sun screen multiple times but still got a bit of a burn on my arms. I used the spray sunscreen so I think the wind may have blown a lot of it away. Next time I will use lotion that I rub in. Not too many big boats. Lots of sail boats and a few tankers. Always enjoy my days at the canal, so I am sure I will do that 2 or 3 more times this summer. This week I hope to get to Yarmouth for the annual sand sculptures

Summer break came early for me this year. The last day I was at school was Monday June 17th. I spent the rest of that week preparing for my sons college graduation party. He graduated from Mass Maritime Academy at 10am Saturday morning and his party was at 3:00 that same day. I am one proud mama as we celebrated all of his accomplishments. BS in emergency management, graduation from the NH state police academy and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the army. He has done so much for a 22 year old.  Once the celebrating was over I had time to relax by the pool. Water is still a little chilly for me even though it's 75 degrees. I would prefer closer to 80 degrees. I started planning my day trips for this summer. First was my trip to the canal (in another blog post). I do love my summer. I will be blogging about each of my day trips and sharing some pictures. I hope everyone else has a GREAT summer too.

I feel so bad for my seniors. This is the year that they don't have to make up the days when we have a snow day and there hasn't been a single snow day for them. There is talk of some snow this weekend. I am hoping that there is enough snow Sunday night to cancel school for them on Monday. I just don't want there to be too many snow days because if we don't have any our last day of school is Thursday June 13th. I will LOVE having a nice long summer vacation. I could take lots of day trips

This winter is turning out to be a big nothing. I am patiently waiting for that big snow storm as I am sure all my seniors are as well. They want lots of snow days since they do not have to make them up. Graduation date is already set for June 7th and that won't change no matter how many snow days.  I would love to have one snow day in January, one in February and maybe one in March.  Right now, without any snow days, the last day of school is Thursday June 13th. I don't mind coming to school until Tuesday June 18th if we have 3 snow days. COME ON SNOW DAYS!