What's up...

So, finished with my first attempt at the Praxis. Hopefully it will be my last. Now, I need to focus on this research I need to be doing. I'm doing so much work and school stuff I feel like I have no time for myself. Then I realized this stuff is for me. It's to further my career. The thing is... When I was young, I never thought I would be the kind of person who put so much energy into the kind of work I was doing. I really struggle with whether I should be putting so much energy into my job or if I should have a normal 9 to 5 that would allow me to experiance life more. Man, when I started this gig, I thought teaching was a 8 to 3 o'clock, summers off type job. Boy was I wrong. Wish me luck figuring my life out!

I am so proud of my students parents! Parent conferences were this Friday and 16 parents attended! In the past, I have never had more than 6 parents. Because I never get parents, I planned to grade papers, clean, and catch up on some things I have been meaning to get done. I didn't get a thing done and will have to go in early Monday to get things ready for the day. Well worth it to talk to the parents. Friday night, Jenna, Sally, Mark, Spaz, and I, drove to Lancaster to go to Field of Screams. It's a Haunted Hay Ride and a few Haunted Houses. Much scarier than Eastern State Penitentiary. It was so funny to watch Jenna. She was almost in tears. Today: lesson plans, house cleaning, napping, and a bit of football!

I really need to get back to writing on this thing. Life has become super busy! I am taking Role of the Reading Specialist on Tuesday and Thursday and Praticum on Saturdays. I also am working on a action research project! That's just the Grad school classes. School is going well. The children are talkers (they take after their teacher), but for the most part they have kind hearts and respect each other. They asked me to do a PD at school and it went well. Where else, other than Baltimore City, do they ask third year teachers to create and present PD's? I guess it means I'm doing okay. I'm thinking I need to get back to carving some time out for myself! I was doing pretty well with that last spring and it really makes a difference.