Quick Update
Monday, June 16, 2008 at 
2:30 pm ()
I’ve been sort of absent from the online world the past couple of weeks. My blog needs the cobwebs cleared away.
Here’s what I’ve been up to:
* School ended May 30th (summer vacation, yay!)
* I unofficially have a job teaching first grade for the upcoming school year (!!)
* I attended a 2 day training about open response questions
* I spent a day “planning” with the other first grade teachers
* I’ve been shopping a few times
* I’ve been playing with paint
* Watched a few movies
* Colin and I have been playing a lot of Wii (Mario Kart, Wario Ware, and Mario Galaxy)
* Spent Father’s Day with my family playing games and swimming in the pool
Here’s what’s coming up:
* Mine and Colin’s anniversary is this Wednesday, May(I was thinking about Colin’s birthday when I wrote the ‘May’ part previously, thanks Jessica!) June 18th
* Colin’s on vacation this whole week!
* Trip to Nashville
* Trip to Paducah for anniversary
* Mini-golfing, shopping, eating out
* I have to clean the fish tank desperately
* More Nintendo fun (and Nintendo with Katee!)
* Gynecologist appointment July 3rd 
I have lots going on, and I’ll have lots more going on once I “officially” have this job. I pretty much have it, but I haven’t signed a contract or anything yet. I’m excited though! I’ll be more excited when it’s more official. I’ll be working with two really great first grade teachers (and a special education teacher too). I’ve already seen my class list, and I think it will be a pretty good class. I will have an autistic kid and a mentally handicapped kid in my class, but those two students will have an aid and then I will be working with the special ed. teacher as well. I just wish it was totally “official” so I could start working on my classroom and everything. 
Other things I need to do:
* Finish adding tea cup trades to my Quilting Bee Quilt.
* Maybe work on a new layout for my quilt
* Upload the school calendar page I made so you can see it
* Upload a ton of pictures to Flickr
* Paint more! (I’ve been playing with paint a lot)
* Work on the dollhouse I’m building (well, Colin and I are building)
* Keep exercising!
* Enjoy my summer vacation!
Hopefully it won’t be forever before I blog again. I have lots of things I could blog about, but I just haven’t been blogging lately. It’s kind of been nice to have a little break from the internet to be honest. I’m still on here every day, but I am not stressing about my website or blog or anything like that. I have some changes I’d like to make to the site, and I’ll get around to that when I can. I also need to work on the school website and, I’d like to start working on my classroom website once I have a few more things figured out.
Hope everyone out there is having a great summer so far!
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6 Comments so far
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Jessica scribbled this note on June 16th, 2008: 
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You mean June 18th right?
Congrats on getting the teaching job! I know you have been wanting one for a long time! Tell them to hurry up so you can have get stuff done. I think a classroom website is awesome. I wish my kids teachers would do something like that so I know what they are to do for homework. -
Jessica said on June 16, 2008:
You mean June 18th right?
Congrats on getting the teaching job! I know you have been wanting one for a long time! Tell them to hurry up so you can have get stuff done. I think a classroom website is awesome. I wish my kids teachers would do something like that so I know what they are to do for homework.Yes, of course I meant June. Thanks! I was thinking about writing something about his birthday being in May, so I wrote May.
I have been soooo bad with numbers lately!I found out an hour or so ago that I have an “official” interview tomorrow, so maybe after tomorrow I will get the green flag and the “official” “yes you have this job.”
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Glad to have you back and blogging
Congratulations about the summer vacation thing, I think it’s one of the best gifts a teacher can have - a long, comfortable and revitalising break! I remember this line from the film Click (starring Adam Sandler), that ‘good guys need a break, too!’ Be sure to have lots of fun, especially with you Wii It’s Tuesday here and so I’m wishing you and Collin an early HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
all the happiness to you both! And if you don’t mind, I’ll be adding you as a contact on Flickr 
can’t wait to see your uploads!Have a great vacation ahead!
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You bees are incorrigible.
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You have been very busy! Hope this summer you can relax before the next term.
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What great news! I hope it is all offical soon. Good luck!
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