Slow and Humid in Spring Hill

Hey, everyone. There's not a lot going on this week. Lisa's folks drove down for a week's vacation, and they're taking off tomorrow morning. Please keep them in your prayers for safe travel.

It's pretty humid today, but that's something we've got to get used to in Tennessee. It's not completely unbearable, but difficult to do a whole lot during the day that doesn't involve being near a body of water.

I went to a friend's place on Wednesday to watch the Red Wings and the Pistons...they both lost. Game 6 for the Pistons versus the Celtics should be a great game from Detroit. I'm really looking forward to that game. The Penguins finally scored on us in beating us Wednesday, with Sidney Crosby scoring two goals...just what I didn't want. For those of you unfamiliar with "Sid the Kid," he's talked about by everyone as the NHL's savior, the "Michael Jordan of hockey," if you will. It's pretty sickening to hear his name more than the Red Wings team, despite the fact that the Wings shut them out the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final (why isn't it "Finals" anymore?). Anyway, I'm confident the Wings are still going to win the Stanley Cup. So...GO WINGS, and GO PISTONS! Hopefully, the Tigers get things going soon, too!

I got some pictures of Dad from Mom and from Janet, so thank you, ladies. I'd like to get my project finished so I can post it by June 9, so please get them in the mail as soon as possible if you'd like to share more!

June is going to stink for Lisa, as she has class from 9 to 5 every day at Lipscomb, so pray for her during those blah, blah, blah times. :-)

Love you all!

HMS Pranksters

School's out! Yesterday was our last day of the 2007-2008 school year, and it ended with me being the recipient of not one, but two pranks. My colleagues are great, and I feel so loved! (I really do) If I find out who got me, I'm sure my friend Michael will help me plot against them.

So here's what happened. The sixth grade went to Thompson's Station Park for a field trip. While we were gone, my desk and many other items from my classroom found their way down to the men's faculty restroom. When we got back from our field trip, my friend Kim showed me an e-mail, including pictures, that was sent out to everyone, talking about "Mr. Noorman being so important that he got a new office." We opened the pictures, and found the following, and Kim said my jaw just dropped.

Michael and I went down to the restroom and just laughed our heads off for a few minutes, then Michael pulled out his camera and had me get to work in my new office (he just happened to have his camera with him...I think he and I need to talk!).

So, that was a fun day. Then the next day, the last day of school, it was time for lunch, and I was going back to our house for lunch. Michael was being a good pal and waiting for me so we could walk out together. (Hmm...I believe I should think long and hard about this friendship!) I walked outside, and no one had left yet, though there were about 15 people out there (including our principal and one of our assistant principals). I talked to a couple of people for a few seconds, then turned around to walk to my car. I started laughing when I saw that someone's car had been entirely Saran-wrapped! I turned around to share in the laughter at some poor fool's misfortune, when it hit me suddenly that it was MY car!!! People were still asking me how my car was today at school.

I love my job, and I love my colleagues. I'm truly blessed to be teaching at Heritage Middle and working with such fabulous people...even the pranksters.

Project

This is a copy of a letter I've sent to a few people. I just wanted to place it on here as well, in case I missed anyone.

I’ve been wanting to do a little project in memory of Dad for a while now, but between moving, teaching, and everything else that is life, I’ve had little time to work on it. Summer break is only 13½ days (yes, I’m counting!) away, and we finally don’t have any big plans this summer, so I can work on it…but I need your help.

I need bunches and bunches of pictures of Dad. They can be any kind of pictures: family pictures, pictures when he was younger, etc. Any pictures you could share will be quite welcome.

If you have digital pictures you’d like to share, then if you could just burn them onto a CD and send it, that would be fine. I know most of the pictures won’t be digital, and that’s fine, too. We have a scanner, so you can simply send the pictures and I’ll scan them into my computer. I know the pictures that you send may be very precious to you, as are our pictures, so the day I receive them, I will send them back to you that same day after I scan them.

The more pictures I have to choose from, the better (I hope) this project will be, so I hope to hear from many of you soon. When the project is finished, you will be able to view it through our blog.

Please send the pictures to our home. If you have any questions, you can e-mail me or call me. E-mail me for contact information. I’d like to get this project started by May 20, so whatever pictures I have by then (hopefully, I’ll have a lot!) are what I’ll be using.

Congratulations, Lisa!

Lisa is working on her masters degree at Lipscomb University. It is a grueling program in which she'll complete 32 credit hours in just over a year. The first semester of the program has finished, and Lisa has complete 9 of those credit hours. Her grades were mailed here the other day, and she earned all A's for each of those those hours! I'm so proud of Lisa and the awesome things she's doing with her kids over at Hillsboro. Way to go, honey!