so each and every year everyone asipres to change something about themselves, to add something to their agenda-to take something off, either way-to modify some part in their lives...i will not disappoint and do the same, however my "new years resolution(s)" tend to be focused towards my marriage and my professional life-but more importantly my spiritual life. drew and i are going to church tomorrow morning and we plan on keeping this up, i miss church, i miss worship, i miss that relationship with others surrounded by God and i despretly want this relationship back. drew and i are also going to focus a bit on our physical appearance and relationship-we are going to rejoin the Y and there's a class that i want to take and drew wants to get back in the pool and continue swimming...i went back to the doctor on thursday and lets just say i gained a nice chunck of weight between the wedding and now...and this weight needs to be gone! drew and i are also going to work on living on a budget-we really want out of the apartment scene and into a house of our own...2009 held so many blessings and trials and i can only hope and pray that 2010 will hold many more!
"let all you do be done with love"
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas Eve!
Awesome-2 days in a row of blogging, and it's Christmas Eve!! I hope today is full of joy and family time! Mom is not feeling too well, she has a crick in her neck so I have taken over the kitchen and all the baking/cooking details for the day, which I am quiet excited about. The picture is from our apartment, our very first tree before we packed up all of the gifts to take to Memphis and then Dyersburg. Drew and I love our tree-the ornaments are mostly ones that we have gathered over the past year or so as well as some special ones-including a mini converse and "g" that are serving as "our first christmas" ornaments...off to check the lemon buttermilk pound cake that is in the oven...
...let all you do be done with love.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
wow, has it really been this long?
so it has been so long since my last post. my life over the past few months has been unbelievably crazy and in so many different ways, my first year teaching, my first observation, getting married, taking several days off, still fighting sickness and constantly being tired, setting up a new home, the amazing Thanksgiving and Christmas time, turning 23, so many things have hit at once, and then right after thanksgiving break we were hit with another change at school-that because of our lower than desired test scores and horrible transition times we would be going self-contained in january. this means that I would keep my "set of kids" all day and teach them all subjects-not just reading, and language arts...so a HUGE change and apprently this school has known nothing but huge changes in the middle of the year. it will be different but i think there are some positive points to it, just like with everything-there's always going to be a positive side and a negative side-i just choose to look at the positive side and make the best and most out of whatever negative side there may be...as for an update on the wedding and what-not we don't have the official wedding pictures yet but i will post some of the pictures that i have...and i will post later about my new years resolutions-i know that it's still a little while off, but i am going to start early-so that maybe i can stay on track...enjoy the pictures and...
*on the honeymoon in disney...waiting in line for The Yeti-best ride!
*on the honeymoon in disney...waiting in line for The Yeti-best ride!
*Drew and I at Becca and Chris' wedding-only 2 weeks after our own!
*most of my girls, ginger ran away before we took this picture...
Sunday, October 4, 2009
so there have been so many things going on over the past month or so...so many changes, so many trials, several triumphs, just so many different things and it's so hard to believe that in LESS THAN 50 DAYS I WILL BE MARRIED...it's so hard to believe. last weekend drew's parents came down to jackson and helped us move a few of drew's things into the apartment-mainly the washer and dryer (THANK GOD!!!!) they also helped me clean and get some stuff on the walls. the apartment is looking so nice and put together I can't wait for drew to get the rest of his stuff (or maybe not) and more importantly him into the apartment. i will have to post some pictures after we get everything done, it's slow and a little bit at a time mainly because with school right now i don't have much time for anything else-including myself.
the last couple of weeks have been rough on me, i am not going to lie, they have been all but hell and i am not sure what i would have done or if i would have made it through these weeks if it hadn't been for my family and drew. they have been such a great support system and i cannot express to them how much they mean to me...
yesterday i went to this training for school, it was a promethean training and really the only reason i went was because i would get paid $130 for going and sitting through it and listening to my cooperating teacher talk for a few hours...fun and easy way to make money and i even learned a few things...was a pretty easy way to spend my saturday morning (minus the whole 7 am thing...) then after that we headed to memphis to goto the pink palace crafts fair and this year was one of the first years where i went without my mom...kind of sad. but she has been working so hard to help me that she just didn't feel like going. after the crafts fair we met mom at wolf camera and ordered engagement pictures!!!! it was so much fun going through them and we ordered some "big prints" that we are going to mount on foam core board and use as decorations at the reception-really excited about that. we also just ordered some regular size prints to hang here at the apartment and that will be nice to actually have pictures in picture frames.
off to write more lesson plans and grade the GIANT stack of papers that are sitting on my coffee table.
"let all you do be done with love"
the last couple of weeks have been rough on me, i am not going to lie, they have been all but hell and i am not sure what i would have done or if i would have made it through these weeks if it hadn't been for my family and drew. they have been such a great support system and i cannot express to them how much they mean to me...
yesterday i went to this training for school, it was a promethean training and really the only reason i went was because i would get paid $130 for going and sitting through it and listening to my cooperating teacher talk for a few hours...fun and easy way to make money and i even learned a few things...was a pretty easy way to spend my saturday morning (minus the whole 7 am thing...) then after that we headed to memphis to goto the pink palace crafts fair and this year was one of the first years where i went without my mom...kind of sad. but she has been working so hard to help me that she just didn't feel like going. after the crafts fair we met mom at wolf camera and ordered engagement pictures!!!! it was so much fun going through them and we ordered some "big prints" that we are going to mount on foam core board and use as decorations at the reception-really excited about that. we also just ordered some regular size prints to hang here at the apartment and that will be nice to actually have pictures in picture frames.
off to write more lesson plans and grade the GIANT stack of papers that are sitting on my coffee table.
"let all you do be done with love"
Sunday, September 27, 2009
the only words i have right now...
Praise You in This Storm
words by Mark Hall/music by Mark Hall and Bernie Herms
I was sure by now,God, that You would have reached down
and wiped our tears away,
stepped in and saved the day.
But once again, I say amen
and it's still raining
as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain,
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away.
Chorus:
And I'll praise you in this storm
and I will lift my hands
for You are who You are
no matter where I am
and every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
and though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm
I remember when I stumbled in the wind
You heard my cry to You
and raised me up again
my strength is almost gone how can I carry on
if I can't find You
and as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away
Chorus
I lift my eyes onto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth
I lift my eyes onto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth
Chorus
words by Mark Hall/music by Mark Hall and Bernie Herms
I was sure by now,God, that You would have reached down
and wiped our tears away,
stepped in and saved the day.
But once again, I say amen
and it's still raining
as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain,
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away.
Chorus:
And I'll praise you in this storm
and I will lift my hands
for You are who You are
no matter where I am
and every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
and though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm
I remember when I stumbled in the wind
You heard my cry to You
and raised me up again
my strength is almost gone how can I carry on
if I can't find You
and as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away
Chorus
I lift my eyes onto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth
I lift my eyes onto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth
Chorus
Sunday, August 30, 2009
so it's been FOREVER since I posted last and I would like to apologize to the maybe 5 people that even look at my blog...sorry it's been boring and you haven't had anything new to read. i will try to make up for it with a longer post and maybe even some pictures-hope that helps.
*school is getting ready to go into the 4th week--holy cow, 4weeks of school already! i have progress reports to start filling out-they go out a week from wednesday, we have our first "short" week next week thanks to Labor day, we have already taken our school pictures-boy did i look like crap! we had our first "fun friday" last friday and i had the kids who didn't earn the reward and that was an experience. i have had my first parent conference with the parent, mrs. c, and the student-that was interesting, i have my first "big girl" observation scheduled for the start of my tenure...i have had my first big huge cry in front of the instructional coach while my students were taking a bathroom break, i have had my first "this is what you should be doing" talk from the assistant principal-some of which i don't believe will work with my kids, but i will take the advice...i have given 3 reading tests, 2 spelling tests, learned the art of letting papers stack up and then having to grade 2 weeks worth of work, school is such a new experience, it still hasn't really hit me that these are MY KIDS, these kids will take TCAPS and their scores will reflect my teaching, these kids are my responsibility from 8 am-3 pm, these kids are influenced by me and i am influenced by each of them. i am learning that kids rely to much on technology today and that they are still "testing the waters" to see how much they can get away with in my classroom, i have cried and cried and cried, i have gone to bed before 7pm just because i had a HORRIBLE day at school, i have had a kid just walk out of my room and completely ignore me, i have watched another student do the same thing to mrs. c, i have watched a male teacher try to tell me that a baby garden snake was a baby cotton mouth-he was wrong, i have begged for agenda books and threatened to take a box of them from the hallway just so my kids can finally have the stability of an agenda book, i have learned all about intervention folders and teaching students of all different abilities in one classroom, i have learned that some students-even thought they are in the 6th grade-still think they need someone to spoon feed them everything and come behind them and fix their mistakes, i have learned that whoever designed the desks that my students have to sit in was not the smartest designer ever...i have learned sooo much and we still have so much to go, so many things to learn, so many more battles to fight, just so much more to go. please pray for me, the students, the school, the administration-everyone.
*i know that i have already posted about the wedding weekend, but i figured that i should add a few pictures from the weekend...let's see if i can make a collage of them and put up here...ok, i tried the collage and i have no idea how to do that so i will just post a few of the favorites...
*drew and i have a possible lead on a house...yes a house here in jackson. my uncle has a house that he built here several years ago and now he is not living there and is wanting to sell it or rent it or something to get it off of his hands and we are talking to him and our parents about this. we would love to get this house. granted we don't want to be in jackson forever, we would much rather be in a house than an apartment. plus with this house we would have 3 bedrooms, a really nice fenced in backyard, a nice garage, a fire place and just a house. yes it would be more responsibility and more work but it would be ours. we could paint, we could fix things that we want to fix and we wouldn't have to worry about the neighbors and everything. send up some prayers for this. if it does happen it won't happen until at least after the wedding and closer to the first of the year.
going back to lesson planning and my "kiddie" movie marathon that has included free willy and now high school musical...
"let all you do be done with love"
*school is getting ready to go into the 4th week--holy cow, 4weeks of school already! i have progress reports to start filling out-they go out a week from wednesday, we have our first "short" week next week thanks to Labor day, we have already taken our school pictures-boy did i look like crap! we had our first "fun friday" last friday and i had the kids who didn't earn the reward and that was an experience. i have had my first parent conference with the parent, mrs. c, and the student-that was interesting, i have my first "big girl" observation scheduled for the start of my tenure...i have had my first big huge cry in front of the instructional coach while my students were taking a bathroom break, i have had my first "this is what you should be doing" talk from the assistant principal-some of which i don't believe will work with my kids, but i will take the advice...i have given 3 reading tests, 2 spelling tests, learned the art of letting papers stack up and then having to grade 2 weeks worth of work, school is such a new experience, it still hasn't really hit me that these are MY KIDS, these kids will take TCAPS and their scores will reflect my teaching, these kids are my responsibility from 8 am-3 pm, these kids are influenced by me and i am influenced by each of them. i am learning that kids rely to much on technology today and that they are still "testing the waters" to see how much they can get away with in my classroom, i have cried and cried and cried, i have gone to bed before 7pm just because i had a HORRIBLE day at school, i have had a kid just walk out of my room and completely ignore me, i have watched another student do the same thing to mrs. c, i have watched a male teacher try to tell me that a baby garden snake was a baby cotton mouth-he was wrong, i have begged for agenda books and threatened to take a box of them from the hallway just so my kids can finally have the stability of an agenda book, i have learned all about intervention folders and teaching students of all different abilities in one classroom, i have learned that some students-even thought they are in the 6th grade-still think they need someone to spoon feed them everything and come behind them and fix their mistakes, i have learned that whoever designed the desks that my students have to sit in was not the smartest designer ever...i have learned sooo much and we still have so much to go, so many things to learn, so many more battles to fight, just so much more to go. please pray for me, the students, the school, the administration-everyone.
*i know that i have already posted about the wedding weekend, but i figured that i should add a few pictures from the weekend...let's see if i can make a collage of them and put up here...ok, i tried the collage and i have no idea how to do that so i will just post a few of the favorites...
*drew and i have a possible lead on a house...yes a house here in jackson. my uncle has a house that he built here several years ago and now he is not living there and is wanting to sell it or rent it or something to get it off of his hands and we are talking to him and our parents about this. we would love to get this house. granted we don't want to be in jackson forever, we would much rather be in a house than an apartment. plus with this house we would have 3 bedrooms, a really nice fenced in backyard, a nice garage, a fire place and just a house. yes it would be more responsibility and more work but it would be ours. we could paint, we could fix things that we want to fix and we wouldn't have to worry about the neighbors and everything. send up some prayers for this. if it does happen it won't happen until at least after the wedding and closer to the first of the year.
going back to lesson planning and my "kiddie" movie marathon that has included free willy and now high school musical...
"let all you do be done with love"
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
whew!
what a long day...today was such a long day and tomorrow is going to be just as long. didn't have as many problems with students but there were def. still some sticky situations-sent a kid to ISS after being in my room for maybe 10 min...called another parent and did a lot of "lessson teaching" but not book lessons-lessons to a certain homeroom that was horrible for a second day in a row. these certain kids caused enough problems during activity that the principal was called into the room and he "chewed" them out...it's insane!! i am soooo tired, and all i want is a break, i posted a while back on wanting some time to breathe...just breathe but it just doesn't seem like i will have time to do this before november...this weekend will be no different, drew's grandfather passed away earlier this week after being very sick so we have the memorial service this weekend so we will be heading down to the memphis area for that, so yet again, a weekend away from my apartment...i think tonight that i am going to head to bed early and get some extra sleep...we'll just see how soon i can make myself get up and go crawl in bed-hopefully very soon!!
good night all!
"let all you do be done with love"
good night all!
"let all you do be done with love"
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