WooHoo!

I got a new computer! Well its a laptop and I love it. I know next to nothing about it, except that it is mine and has a 17 inch screen and vista. It shares the file on the desktop that has my pictures in it and I can access scrapblog. sorry all you tech savvy readers, send my husband an email, he knows.

Real life survivor

Several weeks ago the talk started. People quietly whispering in the hall way. Others openly speculating for all to hear while people look at them like they are nuts. Some people talking about others behind their backs. As time has marched on relationships have become more tense. Emotions are running high and all eagerly wait to see what will go down at tribal council...or staff meeting. Thats right this is all happening at my school. Teachers have no idea what they are teaching next year and I think people are going to start losing it if we don't find out soon. My teaching partner and I have joked about people trying to make alliances as they decide who they'll be teaching with.

The tension has spread to the kids. Poor kids I think they're getting it from both the teachers and the parents. I have fielded several phone calls from parents that are just as anxious as the teachers. They have heard it through the grapevine. What they think they know is always pretty interesting.

I had no idea what the end of the school year was really like from the teacher side of things. So many things have to be prepared for the next year and I'm trying to wind up this year at the same time. It is a crazy, hectic time of year. People are unpredictable and more last minute things keep cropping up!

I have 9 more teaching days!!! Then a work day and a few conferences. I can hardly believe that my first year of teaching is almost over. It is a little bittersweet. In some ways I am very ready and in others I need a little more time. The first year is supposed to be the hardest and double session kinder is apparently the worst assignment ever, so if I teach again next year hopefully I will be a more effective and less stressed teacher. Or maybe I'll be off on another adventure, only time can tell.

of tread mills, frogs and ice cream

Adam and I joined anytime fitness on friday. I have been three times to exercise. My legs hurt. My arms hurt and I have slept really well the last couple of nights despite our frog problem. Our house has three "water features" that are doubling as frog breading grounds. The noise that a tiny frog can put out is simply amazing. I decided one night that i wanted to see these blessed creatures. I stood on the deck and used adams mag lite to look out toward the ponds. as soon as I had the flashlight on dead silence. flashlight off, ruckus, on silence, off ruckus. They were mocking me!

As i sit here blogging i am eating left over birthday ice cream. the dreyers slow churned with half the fat means you can eat twice as much right?