Recovering

I am recovering from all the eating I have done yesterday and today. How could I pass all that yummy food that I prepared (minus the turkey and gravy)!

Today we got up early and did some shopping. It wasn't my idea, I would rather sleep in. But since I don't get much sleep these days, I figured...why not? I didn't find any good deals, but my parents did. I wasn't shopping for anything except for a microSD card for Andy's new camera. And I did get one for his camera and a larger one for my cell phone.

I got him a camera for Christmas that he had been looking at for some time now. It's a camera where he will be able to take it in the water with him when he snorkels. (Did I tell you guys this already?) It would have been better for me to wrap it up and let him be surprised, but the reality is...if he wants something, he gets it. It's better he knows than he buy it himself and I buy it too.

Andy called this morning. He played football (and did a good job...jock!) but hurt his pinky finger. He said it is very swollen right now. I told him to get it looked at and I hope he does.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is Thanksgiving Day and it is very hard being away from Andy on such a family oriented holiday. He has already had his turkey dinner and is playing his new PSP. He's playing Madden and keeps losing to one of his friends. He is taking up space right now at his work area because his replacement is there and taken over everything.

We are supposed to show how thankful we are today. I, on the other hand tell myself daily how blessed I am for having found such a wonderful husband, having a great family and such special friends.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Wow, I am tired today. I could hardly crawl out of bed today. Andy called several times this weekend. He isn't on the computer very often anymore, so he calls. This weekend was busy with shopping but not sleeping. I still find it hard to sleep but hopefully I won't have that problem with that tonight.

School tomorrow will be fun. We are having a beach volleyball game against the 4th and 5th grade teachers. At my old school we would play kickball against the 5th graders and the faculty always won. Hopefully we'll that kind of outcome tomorrow as well. I didn't even know about this until today. It hasn't been hyped up very much.

I am excited to be having 5 days off. We'll see how much blogging I get done in those days. I plan on starting and finishing Twilight. And start figuring out what I will be taking with me to Hawaii. So if I'm not here much-its just because I'm busy. I hope all of you have a great long weekend and enjoy your family.

Well, once again I've been called out for being behind on the blog. It has been a fast several days and I find myself worn out at the end of the day.

School is going very well. Everyone that I'm involved with seems to be happy with the changes and we are now in a groove. It doesn't get much better than that. I might actually be pretty good at this job...of course I have all the perks and none of the downsides like paperwork. I'm not stressed at all and I get to see and talk to so many people.

I am even doing the after school program for one hour everyday. And I really do enjoy it.

Andy will be back to Hawaii soon. His replacement has arrived and Andy will be showing him what to do. He says that everyone there is ready to leave and are all moody (including him). I must be ready to because I had a dream last night about packing up my stuff.

Other than that, I think that life has been pretty much the same. I find that I have been catching up with a lot of old friends lately and it makes me very happy.

Here is my friend Jennifer and me having drinks and dinner earlier this week.

Some of this and that

I have completed my 2nd day in my new position and I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm doing my best with what I know and hope it works out. There is so much that I don't understand about this position. I look at things from a regular ed teacher and question things a lot. I'm probably driving the principal nuts-but she says I'm not. I do find that my days fly by very fast and I'm not as stressed. That's a nice feeling.

The teacher I subbed for in first grade was very pleased to see the progress the kids have made and bragged about me and them. Imagine that! I did something good.

While it was nice to hear "you did a good job" from another teacher, nothing compares from hearing that from a former student. You always hope that you are making a difference or an impact. On Sunday I received a message from one of my former students. She is at a new school this year and told me that she is doing wonderful. She thinks it was because she was in my class. I actually teared up when I read it. It makes all the hard work and stress worth it.

One last thing. I read something in the book I'm reading (Twilight) and it stuck out to me. I wonder what all of you think of it.

"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end."

Chuck E. Cheese

Sunday the family went to Chuck E. Cheese. We had such a great time. David had went there once before with his dad's family and he hated it. He was scared...but not this time!

Weekend w/Jo

It has been such a fast weekend and very busy. Jo and her boyfriend came in to town on Friday and I feel like we haven't stopped since she's been here. We went to dinner on Friday night and laughed, talked, and caught up.

On Saturday we went to a bar in Manhattan to watch the KSU vs NE football game. Yes, we lost but its okay. The season has been awful anyway. We had yummy food, drinks and enjoyed chatting it up.

But before we went to the bar, we went to the mall. A few people have talked to me about the book Twilight. It is coming out as a movie this Friday. I hadn't heard of the book before but I thought that I should get it. Jo's boyfriend, Gene, wanted to read it too. So we had to make a trip to the bookstore.

Here are some pictures from the bar.

Me, Marcie, and Jo


Jo and Gene

Gene being a nerd and reading at a bar-guess the game was boring him!