Quite some time has passed, once again. My apologies.
Looks like I'm even suckier (that's not a real word but should be) than we thought at posting regularly.
So what's happened since my last post from April..? Quite a lot!
For one, I am now into summer II of being a newbie teacher. Exciting stuff. Summer has been so relaxing, to the point where there are times I feel like a hobbit, and leaving the house to just get the mail takes an uncomfortable amount of motivation (I'm exaggerating..kind of. By 'kind of' I mean not at all.)
The super duper exciting news I have to share with you is that Joey and I bought a house! By bought, I mean we now have a mortgage, but still! Now if only I knew how to clean, cook, renovate, and do all those other things grown ups are supposed to know how to do. We'll get to that in a future blog post...hopefully.
There really should be a blog for newbie house owners. If there is, I've yet to find it.
I'll admit to you that I've been neglecting teacher blogs a bit and spending a lot of my time as a hobbit looking at DIY home decor blogs. Those have been so fun to pinterest through.
The third piece of big-ish news is that Joe came along with me to Israel 3 weeks ago and finally met all the extended family. Minus 24 hours of food poisoning, he had a wonderful time and didn't leave scarred or scared. Except he'll probably never eat a sandwich made on the beach ever again. We believe that's where the bug came from. (But in the sandwich's defense, it was SO scrumptious!)
Unfortunately, because of the traveling, house purchasing, Game of Throning, and good ol' summer laziness, I haven't put in that much time to reflecting on the past school year.
So, here it goes.
The second year was certainly less stressful than the first. This is based on the decrease in monthly migraines (woot!)
Needless to say, it wasn't perfectly smooth, but let's face it...there's no such thing as a perfectly smooth year (not just in teaching, but with anything). If you know someone who claims to have had a perfect year, then they're blatantly lying to you.
My biggest challenge this year was having 7 boys and 1 girl in my kindergarten classroom. But that turned out all right! The boys loved the little girl and a huge plus for the girl was that she never had to deal with kinder-girl drama! Kinder-girl drama can be pretty rough, so she's a lucky ducky.
...As I am writing this, writer's block is hitting me smack in the face. Going to stop now and continue soon (promise!)
(Thanks crafterminds.com for this image. It describes perfectly how I'm feeling.)
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