Blogging Challenge!!!

Okay, people. It's time to get this thing going. I was kind of thinking of trying the alphabet challenge again (it's my favorite), but since we already did that again this year, I thought I would steal another idea from LH (thanks, LH!) and riff off of the "Calm-Til-Christmas" theme, and also combine it with the Obama's Roses and Thorns game (which we have adopted in our home as well).

As I understand it, LH's "Calm Til Christmas" initiative involves trying to stay calm until, at least, Christmas.

The "Roses and Thorns" game involves going around the table at family dinner and telling about one good thing and one challenging thing about your day.

In the interests of staying calm and merging the themes, though, I think we will just go with telling something about your day - this involves both sharing (a la Roses and Thorns) but does not need to involve talking about anything bad (a la Staying Calm). Each day. From now until New Years (for those of you who don't celebrate Christmas). And by "now," I mean this coming Saturday, after everyone has had a chance to declare whether they are in or out.

I'm in! Who else???

Here's what a typical post could look like:

Tuesday, November 15, 2011:

Today, I read a very funny tweet (Twitter is kind of my go-to place for phone-it-in blogging challenge posts). It looked a little something like this:


Knowing as many teachers as I do, I can say with certainty that the dipshit who coined this phrase was almost certainly (1) a Republican; (2) someone who was born on third and thought he hit a triple; and (3) a moron.

Still, I thought the tweet was funny. Kind of like "when they ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?"