So the day started off less than stellar. I was annoyed for the minute I woke up. Not at anything in particular but just annoyed. You know how those days go, nothing is going to go right and make you happy no matter what it is. Yesterday, Mr. Stinky attitude told me that he was moving and wouldn't be back to school. Secretly I was crossing my fingers and toes and everything else I could think of to maybe make this come true. But you guessed it - it was just a grand scheme on his part for attention - he was the first kiddo I saw in the hall this morning. Darn it all that crossing and hoping was for naught! I put on my best teacher voice and smile and said I was so happy to see him and glad he didn't move (these kind of lies don't count do they?). I could tell how the day was going to go the minute we walked into the room and he refused to take his chair down or his sweatshirt hood off and promptly crawled under his desk and pulled his jacket over his head in an effort to ignore me further. I truly feel sometimes it is a conspiracy on his part to make me crazy or annoyed or whatever but there are times when I wish we could re-instate corporal punishment for just one day. This was one of those times. What did I do? Well, I told him again what he had to do, explained it was not an option that he was going to listen and obey me whether he wanted to or not and then I walked back to my desk to watch what he did and I drank my coffee. All the while getting more and more annoyed. He finally complies when I ignore his behavior. The resistant behavior and my annoyance grow for the next hour. About an hour and a half into the school day, another student walks up to my desk. Did I mention that I am annoyed? At this point, I don't want to talk to any child but I'm trying really hard to be nice to the rest of them. It's not their fault this brat is trying to ruin our day. "Mrs. Davis have you ever felt djfsdd (he said a word but I couldn't understand it sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher)? "What?" "Have you ever felt kjkjj?" "One more time." "Have you ever felt KJJJ?" (Oh just shoot me now) "Sweetie, have I ever felt what? I can't understand what you are asking" "Snow" "Oh, have I ever felt snow?" "Yeah" "Yes, I've felt snow before." "What's it feel like?" "Well, it's cold and well it's kinda of like ice, I guess. Why?" "I'm going to the snow for 3 days for Christmas." "Oh how fun! Have you ever been to the snow before?" "Nope, I've only seen it in books and on TV. That's why I asked you what it's like so I would know what to expect." End of my annoyance. I'm glad I took the few seconds to talk to "Bobby" because it reminded that there are 22 other kiddos who didn't do a darn thing to make me annoyed and they didn't deserve my grumpiness. Did my day get better? No - Mr. Stinky Attitude got into a fight with a 2nd grader in the bathroom and then decided yet again to steal things from me. Was I upset? I sure was but I decided that I can't let a 7 year old dictate the course of my class' day. If he wants to be a pain so be it. I can't change that and I'm done jumping through hoops to try and make 1 child happy at the expense of 22 others.