The Elusive Mrs. Wishy Washy!

If anyone sees this book in print, you better grab it!  I wanted our library to order it for next year, but they couldn't find it.  I finally found it online, but most copies were $30-$70!!  I finally found one lone book for $9 that is "well worn".  Hopefully it is at least usable.  I have never met a kid yet (4-6 years) that doesn't LOVE this book!  It is a great pre- or early reading book, but I guess it has been out of print now for awhile.  How can this be, when they are still selling flannelboard pieces to go with it, and have activities online dedicated to this book? Apparently other books, in the now "Mrs. Wishy Washy collection" are still printed, but I want the original one.  I would LOVE to get a big book of it again, but I am doubting that will happen now.

Well, I spent the day at home today.....no school due to Walker's campaign to end collective bargaining in Wisconsin.  This also means that all the veggies I cut up for what was to be our "4K" pizza night with 130 people that I was in charge of, are sitting in my fridge and need to get eaten.  Any good recipes for green peppers and onion- that uses a LOT of them?
Maybe I will look through my new "Vegetarian cookbook" this evening and see what I can find.  A $26 book, which I got for $1.37.  Thanks to my students who gave me gift cards to Barnes and Noble for Christmas and Valentines.

So, what did I do with my full day off?  Did I poly my window sills, go for a hike in the warm weather, clean my house? Write up lesson plans for next week? woodburn my door trim so I can finish up my house? No...I sat at my table for an hour and a half this morning, finishing up my "Starry Night" jigsaw puzzle, which has taken me a lot longer to put together than any puzzle I have ever done (and texted my sister), then went out into the yard and shoveled dog poop now uncovered from that wonderful snow blanket and sinking up to my ankles in mud because we didn't have time to plant grass last fall after building our house.  I then got tired of hardly being able to move around and then came inside and turned on my newly improved working computer.  That is it...it is now 6:00! I got caught up on some emails- both work and personal (which I was over a month behind on), ordered a Mrs. Wishy Washy book, chatted with my brother for a little bit, got some ideas for class, found some pictures I needed for a unit I want to teach, and still managed to not get my finances figured out, which is why I turned on my computer in the first place.  Why is it that one small little hiccup, like my purse being out in my car and across my sink hole of a yard stops me from being at all productive? My poor puppy has been inside most of the day because 2 times coming in like a mudball has been all I could handle....but, time to get a move on.  I will take Arlo into Melrose where we can go for a walk on the streets, then stop and get some spinach to go with my veggie/egg meal I will make, get my free movie that I have a coupon for, and then work on cleaning my house and then finishing my "bear paw" mittens I am making for my students....so we can act out the Three Bears story. I guess it isn't the LEAST productive day...though probably the least productive in awhile.  I do desperately need a walk though- I am going stir crazy in here- I hate the MUCK season part of spring- I find it way more confining than winter, when I can still walk in the woods, ski, go sledding...and my dog doesn't come in as a mudball and try to jump on my couch =(
I do have some beautiful potted and blooming daffodils and hyacinth sitting on my table though, a birthday present from Jim, which reminds me that this will soon lead to something better! =) And I am already planning my summer adventures!