Friday, May 29, 2009

Let's get it over with.

One more day of school... on Monday! Things won't slow down though, things are only going to get busier for me from there. I have two days to get all of my stuff out of my classroom and into a different room down the hall since I will be in 4th grade next year. Then I will go to professional development throughout the next three weeks. Summer, you will just have to wait for now, and so will this blog.


Thursday, May 14, 2009

things are gonna change

About a month ago I found out for sure that I would be back in my building next school year and I got to sign a continuing contract with the school district. This month I found out that my grade assignment next year will be changing to 4th grade! I am way super excited about this because originally I have always wanted to teach 3rd or 4th grade and my major actually covers this grade level. I learned and adapted to teaching kindergarten and it has been a good experience, but it's time to move up. There may be times I might miss kindergarten next year, but I am looking forward to working with older more independent students.

Also this is what I will be working on becoming next school year:


I just found out last week that I received the scholarship that I applied for to pay for national board certification. This is a huge deal for me. 1. The scholarship pays for the $2500 application fee and 2. I've been planning on doing this ever since I began teaching.

However, completing the national certification process will be a ton of extra work on top of everything I already have to do at school. I am up for this challenge, but there will just be a lot of change next school year for me. I think all of these changes are going to be good ones, maybe not always pleasant, but overall for the better.

(Plus, in honor of summer, time to change the background of this blog!)

Sunday, May 10, 2009

your mother and mine


Happy Mother's Day!

For Mother's day I had my mom and dad over for dinner Saturday night. I've spent most of my life eating fabulous food from my mother's kitchen. So I felt that it was about time that I reciprocate that to her. My wonderful husband cooked tilapia for us and I baked a lime cheesecake. It was lots of fun taking care of my mom for a change. She has dedicated her life to taking care of me, my sister, and now her grandchildren. So, Happy Mother's Day Mom! You're the greatest!

Sunday, May 3, 2009

It's just a closet

This summer I was going to re-organize my closet; basically clean all the junk out of it. Well last night at about eleven o'clock I thought it would be a good idea to get started on that "little" project. Many of my old clothes triggered so many memories like where I bought them from, where I was living at the time, first dates, events I went to in them, etc. Then I realized that I have kept some of my clothes for over ten years now. It is definitely time to part with this section of my wardrobe that I have not been wearing at all.


Here is a pile of some decent clothes that I will be dropping off at Goodwill.


And now I have more hangers!

I did not finish the project last night but now I have more space and the closet is more functional.

This weekend turned into doing several small projects around the house. We moved our old couch out of the kitchen and into the garage, I put up new curtains in the living room, I put up a new shower curtain, and I started cleaning out that closet. I felt very accomplished. The rest of the house will have to wait until summer.