Tuesday, March 30, 2010

New Job

Two more days. That is all I have left of my job. Today most of the staff found out I was leaving. Everyone has been very supportive and has wished me good luck on my new adventures.
I am so excited to be leaving this year has been so incredibly hard that the thought of 37 more days is more than I can bear right now. Luckily I don't have to.
This new job is a full time sub position. What that means is I am working 8 hours a day 5 days a week. But if a teacher hasn't called in sick all I have to do is go in and give teacher's breaks. If a teacher calls in sick then I take over her class for the day. I am looking forward to not having any responsibility, no lesson plans, no papers to grade, no parents to call. This is just what I needed.
This week I have come home more tired than ever, and I ask my self why? It is because I'm still giving 110% to my students at school. I still am fighting to make them into the students I know they can be. I spent over 30 minutes today pushing a desk back into the spot it should be while the student tired to push it away or around me. He slammed my fingers into the table more than once, stomped on my foot and screamed cuss words in my face. Did anything happen to him when I called the office? NO they told me to follow his stupid behavior plan. I told them it wasn't working and they didn't care.
16 more hours of that place then I'm done!!!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Church

*GASP* I know another post. Two posts in two days?! Wow I'm going crazy.

Church is something that I have not done regularly in a long time. About a two years ago I think Chris and I went 5 times in a row and then it stopped just as fast as it started.

I have been feeling really down lately and figured I needed some changes in my life. Chris and I had talked about going back to church. He wanted to go back down to Florissant and go to the church we had been attending. We agreed to start but never did.

Two weeks ago I told Chris that I was going to go to the church right behind our house and he was welcome to join me. It was a United Methodist Church. He agreed to go with me.
We entered and there are chairs instead of pews and the bulletin is only two pages instead of 12. I was worried that Chris was going to hate it.

It started off with music with singers up front with two piano's. The words came up on a screen on either side of the stage. It was a song I knew! I hadn't sang a song I knew in years. A smile came upon my face. The second song brought tears to my eyes I sang through tears as I thought to myself "This feels like home".
The sermon I didn't get to hear much of because Alyssa was running around.

We went back this week. After the songs we took Alyssa to the nursery where she played and Chris and I were able to hear the sermon.
I love this church and I really feel like this could be our home. Chris enjoys the service as well and I think it will be a good fit for our family.

Changes are coming and I'm ready!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

New Jobs, New starts

Well again I have been bad about blogging. Big changes are in place over the next week.

Two weeks ago I went on interviews for a Head Start position. When I went on the first interview I was interviewing for a job that started in August. I got a call two days later asking if I would be interested in interviewing for a job that started in April. I went on interview and found out Friday at 1:40 that I got the job. I am so excited! It feels like a new start for me. The last three years of my life have been so stressful and hard. I think that for the next two months are going to be the best two months that I have had in three working years.
Also I have started selling Arbonne. I had two parties this weekend. I did not get the turn out I wanted but I was able to get some sales. I am hoping over the next few days I can book three more parties and then I will be set for April. I need to really get working on that.
Alyssa goes to the doctor on April 10th and I'm excited about that doctor's appointment, hopefully we can get some answers about what causes her attacks.
2010 has been rough start but I think April is going to turn it around and the rest of 2010 is going to be awesome!
Positive, Positive, Positive that is what I'm going to be!
Hope April is happy for you as well.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Bad Blogger

I was so good at the beginning of February about blogging. Then the job got very stressful, Alyssa got healthy, Chris came home and I stopped blogging.
So I'm trying again. Today was an awesome day. The weather was in the low 70's and we went to the zoo. On Friday I had posted on facebook about maybe going to the zoo. Three other couples that we hang out with posted that they were also thinking about the same thing. All of these couples have a baby that was born in Jan or Feb last year. So this morning we all exchanged phone numbers and we all met up at the zoo. The babies had a great time and so did the adults.
It was the most relaxed I have been in weeks. It was a great day to spend with family and friends.