The end is near!!

THERE ARE ONLY 3 MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL.

hallelujah.

I should be grading exams right now.  I'm not.  (Productivity level, down 10%)  I just finished reviewing for my Sunday School lesson - we're launching a new class and are starting off with amazingness.  :-)  I read a friend's blog - she is becoming a raw foodist (check out her journey here) and I was interested in what she's doing.  Not something that is up my alley right now, but something to think about as far as watching what we eat.

As far as the 3 more days of school, I'm so excited I can't even begin to express.  The last 5 years have been... well, let's just say they've been and I've learned a lot.  It's time for a new phase in my life, and while I have no idea what that phase is going to be, I'm really excited about it!  God's been speaking to me in some interesting ways, and I'm looking forward to the path He's getting ready to take me down.  It's going to be a "grand adventure!"

Maddie is still avoiding please, but with less force - she actually signed please for me 3 times in the last 2 days!  *sigh*  I will be glad when this "asserting independence" stage is over.  Especially since the plan is potty training in the next week.

On Monday I get to start my cake decorating class!  I am more than excited about it, and I'm tossing around this idea of becoming a baker.  I really, really like to bake, and would love to own my own business.  Not something that's going to happen immediately - but maybe sometime in the future.  Who knows?  I'll post pictures of my first class sometime next week.

:-)  Thanks for reading.  Hope everyone has a great week!

February Craziness

So in my desire to be productive, perhaps I have loaded my plate a little *too* full!  I'm trying really hard to focus on school, but am feeling the tug in several other directions...  there's the college group at church, that we're really trying to promote and build, there's being a mommy to my baby, and a wife, and sporadically cleaning my house (thank heavens my husband is such a good helper - he cleans way more than I do!), being a mom/friend/sister person to our college student, adding an endorsement to my teaching certificate, and trying to have some sort of social life... and write a blog, because I really want to write and this is about the only way I can do it right now!

Maybe my problem is that I have too many ideas.  For instance, as I'm sitting here typing this blog I had an idea for a short story blog - where I add a litte bit to the story each day.  How much fun would that be? 

I'm having some stress at work - not anything HUGE but I'm struggling with classroom management, and it's just the wrong point of the year to start over... and I'm needing to add in more questioning "research based" techniques.  I did, however, find a great training opportunity that my school is willing to send me to that is going to cover socratic questioning techniques!  I'm actually really excited, and the best part is that it's the Friday before spring break!  I'm also having difficulty figuring out when exactly I'm supposed to find all this extra time... a girl I work with gets up at 3 am to get her papers and plans done - she's got two girls, one who's 4 and one who's 2 ... but I already don't go to bed until 11, and I'm just not sure I could function on 4 hours of sleep.  I might fall asleep on my way to work!  Of course, my friend has coffee flowing intravenously through her, so that could be what's keeping her awake.  :-P

Productivity level today: so-so... I made an adorable card for my secret pal, and almost all my students finished their projects in class today.  Plus, I wrote here!  I also got to spend some snuggle time with Maddie while she watched Elmo in Grouchland, which warmed my heart to the core.  :-D  Now that I think about it, I think I'll change my productivity level to medium-high... if I can get the layout figured out on here it'll be a high!