Hi Friends. It's been almost two years since I've posted anything on here.  I don't really care too much, and you probably don't either, and that's okay. Nothing ever really happens in my world.  I go to work, and I come home.  And that's about it.  We don't go anywhere.  In the past two years, here is what has happened: 1.  I lost my beloved grandmother in April. 2.  Ryan started a new job last week that allows him to be home in the evenings. ...

Twenty months ago I began this little journey with little thought, which was very stupid. BUT...today it came to an end...kind of. After Ryan's dentist appointment today, he came to school to pick up a very important package from me and take it to the post office to go to Long Island, New York.  Inside that little bubble mailer was a CD that I spent the last two weeks working on.  It was a culmination of the last year and a half of sacrificing my time, my marriage, my housework, ...

I come home absolutely whipped every night.  I feel like I've given everything I can emotionally during the day, not to mention running around like a total nutjob all day. Even though I feel like I give and give, on days like today when my students aren't in my classroom with me, I miss them.  And really, I feel like they give me FAR more than I give to them.  I know they do.  They're amazing. It seems though, that sometimes there is a student who just can wiggle his or...

I just got back from a conference with some colleagues. It was four hours to the confrernce and four hours back.  Two meals out, etc.  This trip made me realize what a misfit I am. I was in the car with five other women.  I knew most of these women, and we all get along well.  We'd talk about a variety of topics ranging from movies to husbands to kids, etc.  I felt like I had pertinent things to add to the conversation, but I felt like I was talked over and that no...

I've been thinking alot about having babies lately. I used to think that I wanted kids...a whole passel of them.  I wanted as many as we could possibly have. Now I'm not so sure.  I'm not so sure I want ANY.  I love kids.  I love them.  But I've seen how much damage, I , as a parent, can do to them.  Granted, no parent is perfect, but...I don't know if I could take that chance with another human being. I guess I kind of take that chance teaching, but that's on...

Hi! I'm up a little bit before Ry, so I thought I'd tell you a little bit about what's going on with our little family. I'm almost done with my Master's Degree.  YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!!  I have about six more weeks left, and then I need to submit my portfolio and I'll be done.  I can't wait until my time is MY TIME again, and I can come home and not have to worry about homework other than the stuff I choose to bring home from school.  It'll be nice, and then in January I'll ge...