Home again

This past week I worked 2 almost full days teaching down at the Inner Harbor East Academy. It is downtown Baltimore. I really loved it. I am going to really enjoy teaching down there this year. After I was done teaching on Wednesday the kiddos and I took off to go to Rehoboth Beach, DE to visit my grandparents. We had a really nice time visiting with them. I got a lot of the clothes and shoes and stuff I needed for the kids down at the outlets... which I love because there is no taxes!! We were not supposed to come home until tomorrow sometime, but on Thursday I started to feel a little crummy. Then yesterday I really started to feel bad, and after talking to my primary care doc on the phone yesterday afternoon he gave me the option of going to patients first or coming home and seeing him at 9 am this morning. So needless to say we packed up and came home 2 days early so that I can go to the doctors. I am really bummed that I had to come home early, but I did not sleep all that well last night and I am still really feeling lousy so I am glad I am home for that reason. It will be nice also to get to spend the long weekend with Ryan, who was not going to come down to the beach! I guess everything does happen for a reason!

Day 1

Today I taught my first day at Inner Harbor East Academy (IHEA for short). I loved it. I loved every minute of it. I know that I want to teach full time as soon as the kids are in school all the time. I love being in the classroom. The only thing that I would change would be to not teach art. Art is a passion of mine and I love teaching it now, but I think that I would rather be an Elementary Ed. teacher. I think that I would love having my own classroom and being with the kids full time and not moving from classroom to classroom like I am doing now. I love what I am doing now and I love teaching kids about the arts, but teaching the same lesson over and over again all week gets a little repetitive. I love doing it right now, but I am looking forward to teaching all subjects. I am also going to look into Teach for America and see where that may lead. I am really looking forward to working more this year!

Hooray!

So I am teaching for 2 almost full days this year at Inner Harbor East Academy! I am excited, but nervous at the same time! Wish me luck, my first day is tomorrow!!

Quick recap, but more...

The past 6 months have been crazy and good with all the ups and downs that life throws at us. We successfully completed Turner's first year of preschool and he is moving on to the 4's this year. Reese will also be going to preschool starting in the 2's because she is a little quieter and a total mommy's girl. I think that the socialization for her will be a really good thing.

Ryan and I celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary in July! I am so lucky to be married to Ryan. He is the most thoughtful, sweet and caring man. I am so lucky to have him in my life and I look forward to the next 5 years.

Turner turned 4 in July too. He is all boy. He loves sports and picking on his little sister, but will stand up for her to anyone else. He is the greatest son and big brother we could ever ask for. He is the big brother that I always wanted when I was growing up. I cant wait to see how their relationship continues to grow in the future.

Reese broke part of her foot in July. She was in a cast for 3 weeks and now has a little limp, but we all survived. I would have sworn that Turner would have been my first in a cast, but I was mistaken! Also, a little fun tidbit... they make water proof casts now. It was $60 more, but TOTALLY worth every penny!!

I have been working a lot at work teaching all the little kiddos about art, and also working hard in other areas of my life. I have lost almost 40lbs since January! I am addicted to the gym and even hired a personal trainer who is kicking my butt 2 times a week. I feel great about myself and I have more energy than I ever imagined I could have!

Upcoming for us is the kids first days of school, I am PTA president, continuing to teach, Ryan working, and having fun in all we do! We look forward to blogging and posting pics a lot more frequently now that the laptop is here and easy to get to! YAY!

Finally!!!!

I finally have a new computer after mine being broke forever! I will finally be able to reenter the blogging world and catch up on what everyone else is doing! YAY!!!!!!!

Seeing the light!

February had been the month of sickness for all of us! I am glad that we are finally almost all the way through it all! Other than being sick, we did go to the beach to see my grandparents and we had a really nice time. My parents were there too and it was nice to be able to see all the family for more than a few hours! My kids want to go back to Mom Mom and Pop Pop's again soon. We will have to come up with a good time!

We had Turner's school conference and basically he is a normal 3.5 year old.. with all the good and the bad. Through that though we figured out he needed to have his eyes checked with some good problem solving by mommy! The eye doctor said that he is slightly near sighted but has a little bit of a lazy eye starting and so we are going to be putting him in glasses to help with the strengthening of the eye muscles which should hopefully help. The lazy eye is not visible to anyone and we hope that it will be quickly fixed! So his glasses should be coming in this week!

Reese is potty training and doing really well. We started last night and have had no accidents yet! She is definitely ready so we are excited about it.

Because Reese and Turner are making such giant steps in being big people with the glasses and the potty training we decided to reward them and my mother gave us money for Easter to buy them bikes! So both of our kids now have big kid bikes and we will teach them how to ride (turner is already pretty good) as long as Turner wears his glasses like a big kid and Reese continues to do well on the potty! I can't believe how big they are getting! It is amazing how fast the time flies.

I will hopefully post pics soon. :)

Pay it forward

I got this from my friend Becca's blog! I thought it was really fun and would be fun to do things for others!!

Step Right Up

One of my friends has a wonderful site called Sanity for Moms. She has created so many things that I would not have even thought of. This year she decided to do a giveaway, and here's the details:

The first five people to leave a comment on this blog will receive something made by me.

However there are some limitations

1. I make no guarantee that you will like what I make.

2. What I create will be just for you.

3. It will be done this year. (might take a while)

4. You have no clue what it is going to be, blocks, sign, or a little invention of my own. I may bake something and mail it to you . Who knows? Not you that's for sure!

5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. It may blow your mind!

Here's the catch, if you choose to do this. You must post this on your blog and be ready to make something for five people too. This will be fun! When you receive the fabulous item I make you, you must post a picture of it on your blog.