day two...or should it be day five!

so much for keeping up with my goal of blogging everyday! today was day two of subbing for second grade at emma roberson! my teacher that i student taught under had the stomach bug and so this was my first subbing assignment with GISD. i got the opportunity to go back and work with the kids i have missed so much. when i walk down the halls at emma i can't help but feel like a celebrity! maybe that is why my last two days have felt so good! when my kinder kids see me coming they lose all sense of control! i absolutely love it and mrs mcwilliams has to inform me that they were all behaving until they saw me! i am so blessed to have had the opportunity to student teach at this school and now being able to sub there is wonderful! i pray daily that god will lead me to the school he wants me at and to direct me to the grade he wants me to teach....i just pray a little harder that its emma! :) i have such a passion for teaching and these last two days have reassured me of that! well the clock is ticking and i am pushing myself to get to turbo kick at 430! ugh. why can't i be like craig. eat anything anytime with no worries or no ounce of body fat anywhere on his body! instead i will be walking into the ymca with a muffin top and thighs rubbing as i walk! yuck. :( hope everyone is having as good of a week as i am!

day one

well i'm back. ashley convinced me to start this whole blogging thing and after two blogs i departed from this world and now once again i return. life has quickly been passing and it seems like i finally have a moment to sit and breathe and do some things for me. so since my last blog....i finished up my student teaching on december 3. wow. super fun and i know that i am meant to be an elementary school teacher. i have such a passion for those kids and i miss each of them already. i went on to pass my generalist! and then i graduated on December 13th! woohoo a certified ec-4 teacher! i have dreamed of that day since i was a young child playing school with all the neighborhood kids. christmas was great. samuel was very aware this year. last year he just crawled around and wasn't to interested. this year santa was very good to him. here he is on christmas day in his new ride! he wasn't the best driver to begin with, but with a little practice he is getting very good!

This is by far the best toy investment we have made! we got to spend time in victoria for christmas with all of our family and friends there and then we headed back home for christmas day at our house! so now the new year begins. and once again we are bombarded with new years resolutions and talks of changes. i plan to work on a few things this year, mostly my prayer is to trust god. wholly and completely, i mean truly trust him. today was day one of my new study i am starting. it is titled balance. basically it is for all of us who fill our plates way to full trying to make very single person happy and at the same time we try to keep ourselves healthy and keep our families going! do we honestly think we can do all this and still be real to our god and our family? so in my reading today i once again realized i am a martha. if jesus were to come to my house today i would be the one cleaning and cooking and whining that no one else is helping me do anything. i would be the one to miss out on sitting at our lords feet. and why??? i don't want to miss out. i don't want to miss a thing. as i ponder this how much have i already missed out on in samuels life or in my marriage because i was to worried about the next load of laundry that needed to be done or who was going to unload the dishwasher. i pray that this study can continue to reveal to me what changes need to be made in my life. i have found a wonderful friend who is doing this study along with me. we are going to hold eachother accountable, becaues amazingly enough we both struggle with this very same issue. now isn't god good to bring her into my life! wow. i want to share a few more pictures from our christmas that i absolutely love! hope you enjoy!

well so much for a great computer! it will not upload anymore pictures! i will have to share another day!

Oh What a Day!

Wow...God is good. It seems like everything is falling into place here in Granbury. There have been times that I have seriously doubted our choice to move here, but this week I am beginning to see the bigger picture. So for starters I passed my PPR!!! For all of you teachers you know what that is. For those of you who aren't, it is one of two state test we have to take before we venture out into the world of education on our own. I took the test on August 2nd, so it has been a very long twenty days, since I have been blessed with zero ounces of patience. Sam had open house at crosstown preschool tonight. Very excited! I have been very nervous about this change, but tonight I was reassured that we made the right choice. I am so exhausted from my week at Emma that I cannot type one more word! Off to bed!

Pushed to Blog!

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging! Before this moment it has never crossed my mind that I may actually enjoy blogging. Weeks ago in my boredom, Ashley told me to start a blog for Craig and I. I politely brused her off....and now weeks later here I am. As I sit here I do not even know where to start. Craig just called me. He left the house at 4 a.m. and needless to say he has not made it back yet. Trouble in the camp once again. His day has been wonderful and luckily, none of the chaos was his fault! The afternoon began with a driver hitting an electric pole, bringing it down to the ground and starting a fire. Now he is sitting on the side of the road in Azle, another driver was carrying a load and hit an overpass because his load was too tall and the drive behind him ran into him. So the pile includes an overpass, two trucks and pieces of the rig they were hauling! At this moment he is so glad he is not boss anymore. It is very sad that the people that work with him are not the brighest bulbs in the tanning bed. As they were approaching the bridge all of the drivers were on the radio yelling at them to exit, because this morning this was the very bridge they had a meeting over. They were informed that this bridge was 15'3 and they were to exit and go around it with their loads. Did they actually think the bridge was raised during the day??? Hmm. Well, besides the fact that Craig will be home at some point in the middle of the night....I am having a great week! I started student teaching at Emma Roberson this week. We have been working to get the room ready and we get 21 little darlings on monday morning bright and early! I start in Kinder with Mrs. McWilliams until October 10th and then I move to Second Grade and I am there until December 3rd. The countdown to graduation has begun....how many days until December 13th. Praying daily for a job so Craig can get out of his mess of job and start fufilling his purpose in life. Samuel is 18 months today. We went to Doctor Wright for a check up, he is very healthy and growing so fast! He now stands at 36'....which means he is 3 feet tall! Yikes! Watch out Yao! I am staring at the book Legal Issues for Texas Teachers, I am avoiding the chapter tests that I should be completing instead of typing this blog. So now I must go....Work before Pleasure! Oh by the way....Does anyone know if Ashley Wilkins is Pregnant??? :)