Back to School

School's back in session! It's been pretty busy around here for me, but luckily, not as busy as last year!

My school year has already started out much more organized and calm that it makes me really excited for the rest of the year. It's amazing the different 1 year of experience can make. At other jobs, you're the "new kid" for maybe a month or so until you become accustom to what your responsibilities are. Being a teacher, you're the "new kid" for a WHOLE YEAR! You don't get to teach the hopefuly same material until a full year later and hopefully you made notes or something about what you did the previous year because so much has happened between then and now that you may not even remember what you did those first few weeks. I'm not speaking from experience or anything (cough*cough)

Anyways, I did a lot of reorganizing my room and thinking through the way I want procedures to run in my classroom. Man, did my head hurt the first few days of going back, but it was worth it. The first day for students came and went and I knew what I wanted and was able to teach that. Now, I'm able to focus on ways to present my material in the best way and to make adjustments, instead of just doing exactly what the teacher book says. It's pretty fun :) Also, it's really fun to start out the year already knowing some of the students in the building. They may be 5th graders, but I know them! :)

I also started my Master's classes again. :p This will be my last semester with my cohort. After this, I'll have 4 or 5 additional classes to actually earn my degree. Hopefully, they won't take too long and I can bust them out within a year. We'll have to see how our little one effects that!

Scott also started school again! He's not too excited that he has classes every Mon-Thurs instead of just 2 days a week, but this should be a pretty good semester for him. One of his classes is actually on the basics of Auto-CAD, which he used to use all the time in the cabinet shop he worked for.

Well, that's where we are so far. Just work, school, and church callings for both of us. It keeps us pretty busy. I'm pretty excited for this Labor Day weekend coming up. Just so we can have some time together and maybe do a project. (My vote is for painting the walls in our soon to be little girl's room, but I'll be happy with an entryway bench and hooks :) )