A joyus weekend!

Greetings for the Thanksgiving weekend! Things seem to come in large spurts of activity.
Take this weekend for example. beging with getting out of school on wed, i went and collected aunts and uncles and grandparents from vairous surrouding airports. Then added to my collection some of milt's family and had an amazing thanksgiving dinner filled with good food, laughter, and time spend with family.
Then the relatives poured in on friday complete with a semi-surprise visit by some close friends from Chiago land whom i have not seen for at leats 5 years. Talk about insanity! With a quick visit, lots of hugs and sad farwells finally everyone cleared out by today.
But what is the cause of all this kufuffle of acvity? A wedding, of course (but not mine) my mothers wedding took place this Saturday. It was great to see these family and friends. We have now been joined by a large array of what society calls "step-siblelings" but in reality they seem to be nothing more then an extension of an extended family that i barely know anywaz. I am content to keep that distance between us.
My mother, now married to the afor mention Milt took off for her honey moon today and they seem to be quickly settling in to a condo on the beach of south carolina, in hopes of good weather and deep sea fishing.
Then school began today and i started full time teaching, followed up htat busyness by returning the last of the realiatives to the airport and finally coming home to relax. Teaching makes me tired, only two weeks left... then only the Lord knows!

a week at a glance

It is getting warmer... thanksgiving promises to be in the 50s. i love it when it is warmer, but it is uncharectisticly warm... global warming.

I am getting excited for my mums wedding... seems as though everything is falling into place. Today we ate our last meal together as my family currently exsists, come this week monday things will be differnt again, then on Sat. Things will be differnt forever. what a strange thing.

I think i am dying. I have been so under the weather the last couple of days, actually scince last tuesday. What is my stinking problem. First i was having headaches on the weekends, strange. Then i had stomach pains, and feeling so nauses for like four days. I would eat, but only to feel better for an hour and then sick again. i am frusterated. Today the stomach pains seem to be gone, but i woke up with a headache! What is the world! i took tylonale, it helped, but the headache is creaping its way back. I think i better go to the dr. I am frusteraed! I better hurry my health insurance in gone on Dec. 15.

Next week will be short school days! YAY! I do like teaching, but i also enjoy a good break!:)

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It snowed today... first day scince i have been back to iowa. I liked it. It was a "warm" snow. I wonder if anyone knows any good devotions or sets of passages to read or something... i just finished reading through the bible in three years (it took me 5 years). I am looking for something to do!

Feelings....

Today i was angry... mad... upset... frusterated
Two words... voting... children (who are stubborn and definant)

Then i went for a run.... i don't run... i ran for about three blocks then walked about 5 blocks... i repted this pattern.... until i came to an open feild... then i ran with all the streagth that i had left in my angry body. Then i came to a peacful walk in the trees that use to bring me peace and relaxation when i was burnt out. I talked with God.

Then i began to relax.

Today i am thankful that i have two working legs and lungs.
Today i thanked God for feelings... being able to feel and identify what those feelings are.

Today was a good day!

nothing of imporatnce...

My life is taking a different course all over again. this time it is crazy and all i can do is hang on tight! i was thinking about how much i miss being a college student when my only purpose in life is to write one lesson plan every three weeks, make posters, bullitian boards, and write reflections are articles that i "read". I get to stay up until midnight or later and i don;t have to report to class if i really really don't want to.
But now, i have to write lesson plans all the time, every night, be at school every day from 8-4 and i have no way of opting out. Strange how growing up seems to take on differnt faces. Well.. this is what i choose... so this is how it is going:
School is going good, i have 16 students, 25% are learning disabled and have IEPs (individualized education plans) and rarely are all my studnets in my classroom at one time. i am working at a school dictated by the rules of No Child Left Behind and anyone who knows me knows how i feel about that. I am frustareated by those rules and see little room to move. Why is it that we have so much emphisis on reading and math, but little emphis on science or socials. I am nervous for what our next generation will amoutn to. We will have people, but trends show that they have less respect for each other and i firmly belive that people are going to be getting stupider if they keep having to be taught to the test. I feel like my hands are tied. i think i need new intrests, education is going to drive me crazy.
At one point this week there were 6 adults in my classroom of 16 studnets. that is almost a 3-1 ratio. What in the world! i think we should set up a coffee bar in the abck of the classroom for all of the adults. I use tothink my teacher was talking loudly to talk over the studetns, but i realized the other day she has to talk loudly to talk over all the adults in the classroom. This will be a challge for me. I am done talking about education
last night i got to catch up with some friends and that was amazing! i had pizza and went to a movie: called Prestige. It was good, creepy, but good. i would almost put it in physcological thriller, but then again maybe not, it was serious, scary, sad, and a whole range of emotions. go see it and let me know what you think. Ok, back to lesson plans i go!:)