Excuses... Excuses.

Now that I am revisiting my blog I want to simply fill in why there have been no updates since August of last year. The summer is nice for a teacher they have time to do the things that they did not do during the school year. But to give you all (the 5 of you who look at this blog) the list of what the past 10 months have been like.
September
Marika started her first teaching job in East Windsor HS
I started coaching girls soccer for the middle school where I work
October
Finished coaching soccer
I Chaperoned the 8th Grade Field trip to Washington DC
November
Started planning for the Middle School Musical this year
I tested for my Black Belt
December and January go by really quickly because of winter vacation.
Marika Started taking Martial Arts
Marika had her first chorus concert
We Adopted SASE into our home.
February
Rehearsals, Rehearsals,Rehearsals Marika and I had rehersals for the shows at our respective schools
SASE has her first training class
Cora starts doing Agility classes again
March
The No Child Left Behind (otherwise known as No Child Left Untested) CMTs happen in our school
The Middle School show Into the Woods which I Technical directed (lights and sound) was preformed
April
Marika's play Check Please is performed to great reviews.
I am Diagnosed with a Compressed Disc in my lower back
SASE and Cora take a family dog training class (They share one brain too often we worked on trying to get them to think for themselves)
May
Summer is fast approaching and everything is focused on keeping students in line
Start working on starting a Crew program for South Windsor
June
Only 18 days left
Field trips and finishing the school year occupy most all of my time
Marika starts Music Directing Les Miserable for this summer.
Agility training continues with Coralee.
I turn 30
I start Geocaching as a way to walk more with the dogs and explore more fun places and things.

So now that I have filled you in I am starting two spin off blogs and we will see where they go.
The first is: Caching PWDs
http://cachingpwds.blogspot.com/
This will be focused on the adventures and misadventures of Coralee, SASE and I as we learn about Geocaching.
The second is: Mr. Kraus' 8th grade science blog
http://mrkraussciencepage.blogspot.com/
This is pretty self explanatory. But I am going to see if I can get students involved in thinking about science every once in a while outside of school and in their regular lives.
This will truly be an experiment. I thought about making this a video blog but I don't know if it will work.

Anyways I have written a whole bunch and I don't even know how many people will be reading this.
Enjoy

Another Dog in our House

And then there were two... This is S.A.S.E .. Which stand s for Self Addressed Stamped Envelope. She came from Sweden. She says Vwooof!Who could not love that face? And yes we do occasionally put her hair up. Do you have a problem with that?

This past year we got a new dog. We thought we were insane at the time and still question our sanity often. However, Coralee was happy she had a playmate that could keep up with her antics and energy and we were happy that Coralee was happy. SASE is also a Portuguese Water Dog who came over from sweden. She is just about exactly one year younger than Coralee is. We have taken her through 2 training classes and are thinking about working on either Obedience training or Agility. It is really actually fun to train your dog they get attached to you that way. PWDs are working dogs...they need a mission in life. Here are a few more pictures.These two are the host of my new site about Geocaching. If you have never heard of it check out this page http://www.geocaching.com/.

Last but not least here is another link because SASE also has her own website too. SASE at Dogs of CnSand PWD
Both of these links are also on the side bar of this page.
Enjoy!