Change is Good

Today I was released from Primary, working the with the 7 year olds, and called to be 2nd counselor in the Young Women. While I've loved being in Primary, I look forward to learning more about the girls, and I'm excited about this change. I know it will mean more activities, and more work, but I'm really excited to get to know the other girls in the Presidency better, and try my hand at something new!

Now if only I could get my voice back!

Sigh.

Today, my kids got the "fighting is bad" talk.

Tomorrow, it will be the "stealing is bad" talk.

And I'm still waiting for my voice to come back. Yep, this cold hit hard and fast and I lost my voice for the first.time.ever. Yesterday, I was at barely a squeak, and today was a croak, which I guess was an improvment. Having a job where talking is sort of a requirement, and have the difficulty doing so, has been tough.

GRRRRR!!!

And onto a new day!

Happy Monday!

Regardless of the fact that my day started out with a parent coming in (with another student in the room) and declaring that if another student touched her kid again she was going to "Whoop his #$%"....

it was a good Monday!

can we all just grow up please?

Cicadas

Todd and I were both attacked by cicadas this morning leaving the house.

Those babies are HUGE!

Nurse

I just realized no one asked me to go to the nurse today! Miracle!

So maybe they just looked bored during reading, but really weren't??

I did have one fall asleep on me today, and one crawling underneath the tables (she got sent out, aiyiyi she doesn't stop moving!! or talking!!)

Today was a bit discouraging but I just had to look at my post from yesterday and remember that someday things will seem routine and the kids will get it and I need to be patient with them and myself!

New School Year

Today I walked down the hall to pick up my students from science and when I peeked in, I thought, "Who are those kids?"

And then I remembered that they were mine! And I didn't know them at all!

At first it was discouraging. Teaching new students your rules and procedures every year is hard. Not knowing them is hard. Constantly repeating your expectations is hard! Talking ALL day is hard!

But then I reminded myself it won't always be this way. Someday I'll look at these sweet third graders and realize that I'm having FUN, and it's only downhill from there :)

Today's Stats:

Students: 24

Criers:2, maybe 3 (the first, for who knows why, first day nerves maybe? the second got a ball in the face. I would cry too!)

The school secretary told me the third was crying because she didn't want to eat the school lunch (which was actually the same thing as her cold lunch, PB and J, which is hilarious). When I asked her if she was okay and if there was a problem, she said, "Oh no, I'm fine. But, when I was in there, my eyes started watering and they wouldn't stop. Sometimes that happens!" So funny.

Blood: One skinned knee.

Pants-wetters: NONE! Hallelujuah!

Troublemakers: None today, although I have a few picked out. Mostly ceaseless talkers, I think.

Names mispronounced: Elena, Darianna, Tyron, Chalil

Kids to the nurse: Only one...I'm mean and made everyone else stay in class!

Welcome back to school year 2010-2011!

Good times!

Just when...

...you want to lie in the lap of misery, you go to Church. And have FHE with your husband. And get a blessing from your favorite priesthood holder (Todd, of course!)

And then you get a little perspective, straight from Heavenly Father. And President Monson, our dear Prophet, who said this,

"Both abundance and lack of abundance exist simultaneously in our lives...it is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend."

So, with that truth, and others, in my mind, I'm going to make a fresh start and not let my "lack" cloud my abundance :)

Blogging

....has been lackluster lately, I know.

That's on purpose. Life is wonderful and good, but I've been experiencing a bit of a bad attitude, and while I like to keep it real on this blog, I'm not sure my thoughts of late would be appropriate for the public.

I'll just say that sometimes life requires patience and I'm out of it in regards to certain things, you know, the things that EVERYONE else seems to have, and I'm not talking about unrighteous things either. It's taking some work on my part to see the glass as half full. You know?

Anyway. Here are some happy moments from the last few weeks:

1. Going to the pool with Todd and floating on the Lazy River for forevers :)

2. Almost getting my classroom done

3. Getting nominated for another teaching award

4. A new letter from my Grandma

5. Downloading Paramore's new song

6. Laying around in the afternoons with nothing to do :)

7. Being there when a friend got some good news

8. Buying more shoes (the addiction must stop!)