| | WHen will the cooler weather get here!!??!!
It is 85 degrees outside to day - and I want sweater weather! School is going well and I have only a few more assignments to complete and 2 more face to face classes and then I will graduate with my Masters in Administration on Dec. 10th. I have decided to have my diploma mailed to me insteads of going through the "walking the stage" graduation ceremony for several reason. 1) - I had a big to-do with my Bachelor's. Family came, went out to eat, gifts, etc.... 2) My husband had his company Christmas party that evening in Houston - and it rocks every year!! They go all out, giving us all posh hotel rooms, a catered dinner, live music, tons of give aways (so far, each Christmas - the WIVES recieve a $500 shopping card to Wal-Mart!) 3) It just is not as important to me.
On one hand, it would be great to have my children see me, but at 4 and 2, I am not sure how much they would comprehend or remember. I think advanced degrees are so mush more intrinsic anyway.. I did it!
In other news, my JOBS - all 3 of them on the campus (Campus Behavior Specialist, 3rd grade reading teacher, and Campus Gifted and Talented Teacher) are keeping me extremely busy. I have testing that will begin next week for GT and our Mummy unit begins - we are making our very own mummy and sarcophagus!! I have 2 more behavior plans being created and implemented and we are benchmark testing 3rd graders again. I tell you, I really have a problem with all the testing. We spend so much time on test taking skills, practice tests, and then the real deal that the in depth study of topics is being lost...
We sold our 5th wheel and paid off a loan and both credit cards - that felt good! The 5th wheel was nice (it was a gift paid in full by my auntie), but we used it once in a year - so to be debt free is especially nice. The only "major" bills we have now are my car, daycare, child support, and assorted daily living stuff (insurance, food, electric, etc...) OUr house is paid off, and you would think we would have major bucks at the end of each month - and we don't!! How does that happen??
We are looking at Christmas stuff for our girls and I think we are going to build a kick ass see-saw in the yard. I LOVED playing on the seesaw at school as a kid - and each year we really aim at adding one big item to the outside world for our kiddos (treehouse one year, trampoline the next) so this sounds good so far.
Well, this was a bit of a hodge podge - but it always feels so good to write -
God Bless |
