God is GREAT!!

I made it through the year. This has absolutely been my second hardest year to teach.

• Thomas's mysterious illness weighing on me, (still no diagnosis)
• the dear ex, dropping my beloved oldest from his insurance, right before Thomas's tests began
• now paying $441 a month for insurance
• worrying about my beloved youngest, Luke, dealing with a creepo as a coach
• having to converse with the coach, AD, and principal about the coach's erratic behavior,
• my dear friend Patty, head of Special Ed, went to a new school
• Special Ed just NOT being the same great team
• Luke totalled his car, and I was the carpool until he could afford a new one.

But, praise the mighty Lord, this school year is over, and God has great and awesome plans for my future:

• Next year, I am honored to teach with Shari and Cathrine, who are soooo successful in teaching 7th grade ELA
• My dear friend, Trina, is our new counselor, and will actually come to work and enjoy it, unlike our past one
• I am teaching 35 half day Tech classes to teachers this summer, for mega-bucks
• We will have THREE Tech Liaisons next year, so I won't be run ragged!!!
• My oldest will be a junior at my alma mater, McMurry
• My youngest will be a senior at Cooper, no longer playing basketball for the creepo coach
• Luke only needs two credits to graduate, and is taking 8 classes, so I will not stress over his grades
• I actually have another vacation planned for July...back to Ft. Worth, (less gas) to GardenRidge, and Movie Tavern
• No changes in administration at dear ole Clack for next year
• Hopefully, in the not-to-distant-future I will be teaching Technology Applications in middle school (so far, no TAKS tests for Tech Apps) = less pressure

God bless you all!!!!

Did ya notice there was more good for next year, than bad from this year? God is like that!

Hallelujah!!

It is official!! I am now officially out of Special Ed!! Praise God!! I will be teaching regular 7th grade Language Arts next year, here at Clack. No more IEP's!

AND the folks I am working with are absolutely amazing! I am so looking forward to next year!

As for my weekend...it was magnificent. GardenRidge Pottery is my favorite store EVER! We spent hours in it, then went to Hulen Mall, and ended our day at the Movie Tavern. If you have never experienced Movie Tavern I would recommend you go! It is basically a Chili's and movie theatre combined. You arrive 30 minutes early, and sit in a very relaxing chair. There is a barlike table in front of your row of seats, and a button on top of it. You look over the menu, and push your button. The server comes out almost immediately. He takes your order. We ordered queso and chips to start. It was out before the movie even started. Then our pizza and hamburger arrived not long after the movie began. When we needed a drink refill, we pushed the button, and walaaa our server arrived. About 15 minutes before the movie concluded, he returned with our bill.

I was unsure how the food would taste...and I gotta tell ya....that was the BEST queso I have had in years! The chips were fresh, and seasoned with sumpin, and delicious. My burger and Thomas's pizza was outstanding! And of course, BABY MAMA was hysterical!

Yes, I feel better. And I think I will make it now...through the last 4 1/2 days of school.

Especially since I have something else to look forward to next year! TRINA is our new COUNSELOR!! Woo hoo!! Life is good. God is great!!

not alone

Okay, it was good today to find out I am not alone. I mentioned to my family that I am in a 'slump'. I am tired, no, make that - exhausted. I am angry, hurt, and totally tired of my life. And I am not sure how to get out....of the slump, I mean.
For the last several days, I have been in total prayer. Even last night, slept about 3 hours. Every time I woke up, I realized I was praying. But the feeling is still there.
I feel like chopped liver. No one notices me, and if they do, it is to complain about something I have done, or actually, what someone has perceived that I did. Then, a very exciting event happened, but I am not to 'let anyone know yet."
So, after school, I met my friend, Laura, at DQ for ice cream, or in my case, Mocha Moolatta, and I found out that she is also in a 'slump'.

Thank you God. It is good that I am not alone. Of course, neither one of us knows the answer to it.

But talking to my mom just now, I realized it has been a long time since I had 'fun'. Fun = getting out of town, spending money on myself, spending time away from TAKS, students, tech issues, pressures to fix computers, or find tech answers, washing dishes, clothes, mowing, worrying about money, insurance, medical issues, etc.

So....I am leaving town this Saturday. I just decided. Alone, or by myself, I deserve it. And I pray it works.