Back to school!

Well a full week of the new school year has passed.... It went pretty good considering all the crazy schedule changes we went through. They are now officially changing the start time of our school, so that made everything else shift all about. It will be nice to have it all settle down so we can get to know our students better. But so far it's been great. I am pretty sure i think every year that i wont like these kids as much as i liked my last group of kids, but sometime after Christmas i end up loving them anyway.... SO i cant stress too much that they dont know how to do the things i need them to do. I know it will come.. I am just ready to be done stressing about school, so i can focus on things for the wedding and Mikel... that's more fun to stress about!!! BUT now that we got our engagement pictures back from Kristal i am SO excited to pick some and make an invitation. It's going to be GREAT because Kristal took such AMAZING pictures!!! AHHH i love it!! But its definitely time for things to be not so crazy anymore!

Back to School....

Well, it has come.... The return to school. Ya know going off track is so interesting, I love the time off, but it takes almost a week to get in the swing of relaxing and taking care of stuff that has been neglected while i teach, then i enjoy the second week and by the time the third and last week comes along, i have a panic attack anxious that i have to go back to school. It is a weird block of time. And then it is 9 weeks of teaching, like nothing happened and we do it all again. School is interesting, i switched schools so i could keep teaching 6th grade, and now i am at the same roadblock yet again i get to switch grades next year. I think i will end up teaching 3rd or 4th. But i am not sure. They never know until later which makes it hard to plan and get ready. But i have to go with the flow. I am excited that i only have a year left of my master's program, and at the end of this year i will officially have my level 2 teaching license. It will be great to start year 4 of teaching! I will no longer be a provisional teacher!!! It's serious now... haha Anyway i am taking a whole bunch of classes and working with district people to nail down classroom management and other issues in the classroom. I am also reading a lot of books about being able to stand up for myself and be assertive and say NO without feeling guilty. I think it will really be beneficial. I apparently have the "disease to please" and just want to make everyone else happy before i focus on myself or my needs. I think that if i stick with it i will be able to really make a difference in my life. I hope. I just need to be more confident and positive. There are always things i want to work on, but they seem to get lost in the shuffle of things, but this time i really want to make it happen. I want to be a better person, share openly, not be so selfish. I want to be proud of my accomplishments, i want to be happy with myself. I think it is interesting to look at happiness. It really is a state of mind, not an accomplishment or something you achieve. It is a choice. And i want to make it a more frequent choice in my life.

First Day Back to School!!

SO today was my first day back to school! It was also my first day at my new school! Way fun I have 14 girls and 12 boys! I love it when it's evened out like that it makes things a lot easier! I think its going to be such a fun year!