Happy Friday!

I was walking through the halls this morning, trying to get things done before the bus gets here. My shoes have teeny tiny little heels that click as I walk. A student in the hall walks by me and says, "Sounds like you're dropping money!" Hahaha great, like I wasn't self conscious before. Love little kids.

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drum roll...

BEST FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL EVER!!!!

I want to be in bed in half an hour so I am going to make this quick!

My students are absolutely fantastic.  All came in with smiles.  All sat with quite mouths when asked.  All walked in the most beautiful straight lines I have ever seen.  ALL participated.  Sooo many laughs shared in class today. I was one proud teacher.

And to top it off, my most wonderful and caring boyfriend sent me flowers.  All in yellow - my favorite.

Back to school!!!

My students come back to school today and I cannot even hide how excited I am to see their faces. I will really miss my kids who are in middle school this year though.

I love this.

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Monday Morning Blues

This morning has been a joke.

I wake up and everything is great...until I go downstairs and get my lunch ready/eat breakfast. 

1. I made myself chicken last night for a chicken sandwich.  I open the fridge to search for it, and no big deal, it is gone.  Everyone else used it for their lunch.  I guess that's what I get for moving home?

2. I decide to grab a cinnamon roll before making the chicken all over again.  I pick it up and take a bit and the bottom of the roll is super hard.  I figure that the cinnamon and sugar have hardened at the bottom? I don't know.  I try biting through it and thing this is ridiculously hard.  When I pull it out of my mouth, I see that the metal top from the pilsbury tube that the rolls were in, is stuck to the bottom of my roll.  Wonderful.

3.  Time to make myself a sandwich (and I am running just a bit behind schedule - I have to run to the store still before work!).  I pull out two pieces of bread and sit them on the paper towel.  When I open the two pieces to lay them out, I find that it is already a peanut butter sandwich!? For real?

4. Get to the store with time to be in and out just fine.  But don't worry.  I have a soda for our work potluck tonight and everyone in front of me has tons of stuff.  The do-it-yourself lanes are closed and this lane is my only option.  I sat there for 10 minutes.  Cool.

5.  Driving on Redwood.  Construction in random little spots.  There is a tractor trying to go up some slope covered in rocks.  BANG.  It definitely shot one out and it hit my car.  My ears were buzzing the rest of the drive.

6. I forgot to look and see if the shooting rock did any damage to my car.

7. No one wanted to drive even close to the speed limit.  5 to 7 mph under was the average and for one stretch I was going 10 under.  AND there wasn't even traffic!!

All I can do is laugh.  I guess I have made it to work in one piece and, luckily, the kids start tomorrow.  I hope getting to school tomorrow isn't quite such an ordeal.

Happy New Year!

I know it is the middle of the year, but I have come to find that my years rotate more on when school starts and ends than when December becomes January. 

The end of August brings me a time to think about teaching, how much I have missed my kids, and how I am going to make this year the best one yet!  Things are new.  The kids are excited.  Teachers, although weighed down by paper work and setting up, have a little bounce in their step.   And while I thoroughly LOVED my summer, I know my bounce is purely from the joy of getting to see my students again.  So much this summer has reminded me of them.  Goodness, I have truly missed them.  During the school year, my heart is always overflowing from the little joys my students bring into my life and I cannot wait to have that back again.

School officially starts on Tuesday (feel free to send your prayers my way!) and I am grateful for the Monday buffer that I have to bring together some loose ends.

I haven't been the best in the blogging world this summer.  A lot has happened and I hope that as the new year starts to settle, I can reflect on the joys of teaching summer school, hiking Timpanogos, Lake Powell with Mel and her family, Kelsey's open house in San Marcos, and so many more of my summer adventures.

I hope this new school year finds you as excited (and maybe just a little exhausted from the prep) as me.