Happy Birthday Grand Ole Opry!

The first weekend of this month Angela, Jessica, Mom, and I took our 2nd annual ladies trip to Nashville, TN. It was Jessica's turn to plan, and she did a fantastic job! We stayed at the Opry Hotel, ate great food, and had a blast at our first Opry concert! We even walked away with a few FREE things! I am a little late posting these pics, but I had to wait for them to be sent! Thanks for the great time, ladies!

When things are broken, FIX them.

Things are going to break, and we must always be diligent to fix them. This is what I keep telling myself. As I type this, I am laughing out loud at the amount of my things that have broken over the past week. My camera is broken, my computer is broken, my polaris robot for the pool is broken, and the fireplace ran out of propane. Oh well, one thing at time, one day at a time things will be repaired and other things will break. When things break, we fix them. And somehow, this gives us a purpose, provides us with something to do, and gives us things to type and talk about.

Until next time . .. . .


XOXOXOXOX

What I have learned in 9 weeks

TOP TEN THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN 9 WEEKS OF BEING A TEACHER

1. How to eat lunch, help 3 or more people pick out a book, and get ready for my next class all at the same time.

2. How to "hold it" from 7:00am until 10:00 pm at night.

3. Kindergartens are fun.

4. Hearing the words, "read it again" being said simultaneously by 26 kids is awesome.

5. That the phrases like "Yankee Doodle" and "ABC" make kids spontaneously respond in song. So funny!

6. Kids think I am funny.

7. Epitaphs are good way to get kids to write poetry. (Here lies Dave who chased a bear into a cave.) They love it.

8. That I can be stretched pretty thin and still function on a semi-successful level.

9. That I can memorize about 500 names in a 9 week period and remember the faces that match them.

10. All the hard work, mental drainage, and physical beatings are completely worth it.