March Madness

Week one of my 30 for 30 challenge is almost over and already I’m learning why it’s a challenge. With 30 pieces of clothing total, I have to stay on top of my laundry and making sure I have enough clothes! During the week it’s not so bad (minus the fact that I have 3 skirts and 3 dresses as a part of my wardrobe and the rainy, COLD weather lately), but on the weekend I have to use those 30 pieces which include mostly nicer work clothes and not my typical relaxed weekend fare.  No torn jeans, yoga pants, hoodies, etc. Which is fine, just an adjustment. :0) I have made it through the week without buying any new clothing, accessories, or shoes! I did buy some dishes on sale at Target but since they’re not part of my wardrobe it’s a legit, non-rule breaking purchase.

For non-fashion related news, report cards are due in a couple of weeks and I’m starting to madly compile student work for the conferences that will begin in the last week of March. I think they’ll go well, I don’t really anticipate problems with parents that I was a little wary of the first time around. School’s going well. This week we are getting ready to host the monthly awards assembly.  The second graders will be singing and putting on a short play.  Our theme of the assembly is supposed to be goals and the play doesn’t really connect all that well, but that’s fine with me. The kids are so excited and it will be really cute.

YL is going well, things have kinda settled into a routine and there’s not so much passive aggressive behavior.  In two weeks, I’m giving the message at the end of club. It’s the second time I’ve ever done it and I’m not really nervous but it’s two weeks away at this point. I essentially know what I’m going to talk about I just need to flesh ideas out a bit more.

And, for Spring Break it looks like I’m officially going to be heading to the east coast to visit Beth! Ahh! So excited! Boston here I come! It’ll be perfect timing too since my 30 -for-30 will have just ended and I can go back to shopping! (I know I have a small addiction with clothes) Okay, gotta get back to lesson planning and organizing the rest of my life!

Overflowing October

Life has flashed by in a stream of craziness lately, in good ways and bad. I’m sleepy and have an early morning (inservice – yuck) but have some time to update.

Young Life started back up with a bang, more like an explosion! We’ve had 60+ kids at the past two clubs, AMAZING! And pretty much all of it is due to two awesome kids we took to camp this summer. It’s unbelievable, and we’re hoping that those kids will keep coming back.

I met up with one of my girls tonight. After we briefly talked at church this morning, I knew something was up and we decided to get together for a little catch-up.  Life is stressful and scary for her right now. We sat in Starbucks drinking coffee and gabbing for a long time, laughing at the awkwardness of the football game she went to yesterday and just life. She’s a treasure, and my heart hurts for what she’s going through.

She did ask me if I would speak at YL sometime soon, which makes me nervous and also excited, I told her I’d think about it, but it probably wouldn’t happen for a while. We’ll see.

I feel like I’m getting into a routine with my second graders. Who I adore most of the time. I miss being able to joke around with my 5th and 6th graders from last year, and giving them crap about stuff -  in a good way of course. But second grade has its perks. They’re so open and willing to try anything without worrying about not being cool. I love that they attack me with hugs at the end of the day and at random intervals throughout. I love that while they’re out at recess and I walk from my portable into the building they run over to say hi or wave from the monkey bars as though they haven’t seen me in years. They are wonderful in their own ways, and although they’ll never be my very first class, they are my first second class.

Ahh, and what post would be complete without an update about my nonexistent love life. I’ve decided that the potential love connection at camp (see posts from July/August) will never happen and I don’t really want it to anyway. We are not really compatible, at all.  And he’s not exactly funny, I want a guy who can make me laugh and I want a guy who I don’t know is more chivalrous, I don’t know if that’s exactly the best word for what I mean but I’m tired and vocabulary has flown out the window.

Going to Spokane next weekend for parents weekend with sister. I was there a week ago, long story short, heartbroken sister stuck on this side of the mountains until Sunday afternoon unless I drove her back early, so I did. Long weekend for me, but totally worth it to be there for her. I’m looking forward to this trip since I won’t be the one driving and I’ll be hanging out with her in a larger span of time!

One last tidbit, rehearsals for the fall play are going well. I’m choreographing two dances in addition to assistant directing and the other odd jobs I do to help out. I got 95% of one dance figured out yesterday now I just have to start teaching it to the kids! Love, love, love theater!

Alright, bedtime for me, more soon, promise.

My Week So Far

Nothing super exciting has been happening in my little corner of the world lately. But Monday night I did get to go to a FANTASTIC, Mark Wagner concert with my YL kids. Amazing! He played some songs I hadn’t heard before and told my favorite stories about writing music. Here are a few pictures from the evening…