Hrm. Things have been so busy lately. Sometimes that is a good thing, but sometimes it feels like more of a burden. It's during those times of busy-ness that I seem to feel the weight of it all pressing down on me. That may sound dramatic, but I don't know how else to describe it ( Read more... )

Sometimes it is so difficult to understand why we must go through the trials that we are faced with. Just when I think that I've met all the trials I need to for the time being, I'm thrown yet another one. I'm trying to have a positive attitude, but really....when does it end ( Read more... )

Another year, come and gone. 27 sounds old. It's getting close to 30. Next year it will be ten years since I've been out of high school. In another ten years I'll be nearing 40. That sounds weird ( Read more... )

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have."
--Lee Iacocca

Thank you Anna for this great quote. It's just what I needed.

"Don't let people, problems, and the pain in your past, pause your
present, punish your person, prison your potential, and paralyze
your progress."

Our friend Dani had her baby yesterday. We'll hopefully be going to see the new babe today or tomorrow. I was frantically crocheting on Monday nite to finish the blanket for him! It's pretty cute if I do say so myself. Our friend Amanda is pregnant, and my sister is pregnant. A teacher at my school just had a baby, and two other teachers are ( Read more... )

Here is a story one of my students wrote today ( Read more... )

Christmas was pretty much the best. It was so much fun to have the entire family there, babies and all! We had a really nice week up there. I'm not sure when that will ever happen again - to have the whole family together - but it was a really good time. It was a good thing we had the new house - I don't think we would have fit in the old house! ( Read more... )

In a way. My dad went to the specialist up in Portland yesterday. He had a biopsy done. They are waiting for the results of that and the blook work, which they will get this morning. The doctor is 95% sure that it is the biliary duct cirrhosis. I think that's what it's called anyway. But apparently, it's not much of a big deal. The doctor said that ( Read more... )

I thought that things were going to slow down a bit after last week, but that hasn't really happened yet! Yesterday was a busy day at school, and then we spent a good part of the evening wrapping Sub for Santa gifts at young women's. It was fun, I'm enjoying getting to know the girls better. Today will be a busy school day, and then I get to stay ( Read more... )