Twins, Third Day, Cool Factor...

This weekend I am keeping the twins. The awesome thing is that it gives me an excuse for not grading papers. The bad thing is that the papers never go away from needing to be graded! The twins are adorable as ever and starting to talk in phrases and sentences. Gracie comments on everything from the food to your clothes. Alex is a conversationalist as well, switching from talking with Gracie in their little language to talking with you.

I also went to the Third Day, Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, and Robert Randolf show this weekend! Joe was so awesome and got the group I went with Meet and Greet passes as well as Backstage passes. I was able to go backstage for a little while and hang with Joe :) :) :) (PS - they set up a kids area and had really cool toys... which I wanted to play with). Anyway, Christina and I went backstage and I kept pointing out different band people we'd pass after we'd pass by them. She kept saying, "I know.. I am trying not to stare :)"...

According to C, my cool factor went from awesome to wicked awesome.

Always happy to please :)

Me, Chels, and the twins headed to church this morning. In Xtreme they had part of the band Unhindered play. Those guys got us literally jumping all around! After church we went to Subway, then to the house to feed the cats, then back to my sisters house. By this point we were all ready for a nap... which is what we did.

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(PS - still haven't started grading papers... chose to write this blog instead)

A month of teaching and I am still standing

I just gave the 4 and 1/2 week progress reports to my homeroom students. This is the only way that I know that it has been a little over a month of teaching. It has been a blur of attempting to make lessons, working on classroom discipline, pledges of allegience, locker dismissals, homeroom announcements, receiving paper after paper in my mailbox, grading papers, "monitoring halls", and even a fire drill.

I adore it all!

No two days are the same and my fellow teachers have supported me on those days where nothing was going well. I have been continually challenged to be my best at all times, to balance sharing with my own work, to work in a team and individually, to care for these students and sometimes have to make the tough calls home for their best interest.

It is such a change for me to be in love with my career but that is exactly where I am. I love teaching, I am glad to have had the experiences from years past, and I look forward to a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG career in teaching!

Middle School Rocks!!!

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