I cannot tell you all how blessed I feel to have the job that I do. The way I got the job and how it just seemed to fall in my lap, all I can say is Thank you Jesus:) I have been spending a few days there preparing my classroom and curriculum. Every single teacher I have met has been very encouraging and helpful. I am loving getting back into my own MATH classroom! For the first time in my teaching career I have all the resources I could want. I am really having fun with the SmartBoard and preparing interactive lessons on that! Because I just got my Ohio lisence, it is only a 2 year provisional license. Which means I have a mentor and hours of paper work to do in the next 9 months in order to hopefully get my 5 year professional license next year! My mentor is an amazing women with many years of expereince, I am really looking forward to learing from her and developing a frienship there. The only thing about the job that I think will be a downer is the drive. It takes about 25 mintes one way. It is a beautiful drive through the tree filled rolling hills of Ohio, but I am not used to that long in the car. I am confident the drive is well worth the job. My room is almost completely set up, I will put pics up when I can.
Tony is in his second week of the year. The RA's are moving in this afternoon..crazy. I feel like it was just a few weeks ago we were checking them all out and they are back already. It is an exciting time of year on campus and Tony is pumped to be with his guys again. He has 4 returning RA's and 2 newbys. Because the Cafeteria is not open for a couple weeks yet we get to feed the boys breakfast every morning. I have a pretty tasting menu planned! Last year Tony's RA's were the only ones who got home cooked breakfasts and they loved it, so I thought I would do that again this year. Although it will be alittle more of a challenge now that I am working, but I like cooking:)
Zoe is hilarious... and sometimes not so funny. She is developing quite the attitude and has therefore starting having time-outs. She acutally handles them quite well. She sits perfectly still on the steps and screams her lungs out. After a couple minutes we go and talk to her and she immediaetly stops crying and hugs us, it's pretty cute. These are the words that make up her vocabulary: dada, mama, ball, hot, hi, bye, apple, up, no, yah, and then of course all of her noises (dog, car, etc.) She understand much more than she says, I feel like almost anything we say to her she gets. Her favorite thing to do right now is walk around campus and smell all the flowers. She bends over scrunches up her nose and just about eats them and then says yum yum. She has also figured out where the swings on campus are, so anytime we go outside she heads straight in the direction of the swings. There is not a child's swing so she just sits on our laps and swings very high, she could do it for hours.
I have to admit it has been ok bringing her to daycare for just a few hours a day while I go to school, but I know I will miss her immensley when I only get to see her a few hours a day once school starts. That will be a hard adjustment for us all. But at the same time, I will say it again, I am very blessed to have the job I do.
There are a couple new albums on shutterfly. One of our very fun weekend with Tony's parents at the Twins games and Hall of Fame parade. The other album is of Tony's week in Philadelphia for RD training. Enjoy.