Summer!

I am absolutely loving my "down time" this summer. The kids and I completed 4 weeks of swimming lessons - Ava's first time, and Noah's second. Noah has become quite the swimmer - he is so proud! Chad and I have been able to rearrange our house, including expanding our patio in the backyard for more outdoor living space. We also bought a fantastic popup camper that we will be heading to the mountains in next weekend. I think that I am finally out of the day to day crisis mode, and settling back into enjoying my life and family. Life is good.

And now for something ridiculous!

I forgot about this until one of my students sent me the link - this is the youtube video of me doing the superman at our homecoming pep rally with some other teachers - I am the third one from the left - and that was our AP literature teacher doing the worm - good stuff :)

Click here to see me shaking it

Weather...

The weather has been crazy lately - for some reason this year all of spring has been packed into the last couple weeks of May, and so far in June. We had a tornado that looked like the one from the final scene in "twister" pass just a few miles north of our house and today it has been raining steadily since 8am. All of the 'cooped up' time really makes me realize how much has gone to the wayside during this past year - there are piles of crap everywhere in the house, from papers, to clothes, to stuff that missed it's 90 day return window, and no one (kids or dogs) seems to really care about anything I have to say. It is just time to dive back in. Noah is becoming such a little spit-fire - stubborn and moody, and wanting so badly to make all of the decisions that impact his world. I think I am truly starting to get the first taste of the "you just wait until you have kids" comment from my parents. After the storm always comes the rainbow...

Good bye GW

I am still sitting in my classroom - but now it is empty, and most of the students are gone. I went to the graduation ceremony on sunday and wasn't as sad as I thought I would be. Graduations are the strangest thing in that everyone seems to put off saying good bye until the last minute (which is typically the graduation ceremony) and then there is no time to see everyone and actually say good bye. I remember feeling this way after my college graduation - everything seemed to just end, without any closure, hugs, tears and goodbyes. Tomorrow I turn in my keys, and walk away from GW. It has been one of the hardest years of my life, but also one of the most rewarding. Most of my students passed, with many going off to college, and many not knowing where they are going. I guess we all have times like that - I know I never would have believed 5 years ago, that I would be sitting in this chair right now in Denver, in this school. It is now time for me to return to my own kids, and bring them and my husband back to priority #1.

Currently I am sitting in my classroom, wrapping up my first year of teaching high school. It has been rough, and a wonderful learning experience. I have made the decision to switch to a less intensive form of teaching, likely at the college level. We will see how the time for the blogging thing comes to pass.