Hello Summer!

Well, SO much has happened since my last post. The week after my last post Eli got sick and then Gary got sick. Gary had pneumonia. A couple of weeks later, Gary ended up in the hospital with a blood clot in his lung and another in his leg. He is home and doing fine as far as we know. He goes to the doctor for blood work a couple of times a week. That is the summary of sickness in a nutshell.

Now for some randomness.

My last official day of school was May 28. It was great! I was all signed out and out of there by 12:30. I went back last week for 3 days of optional curriculum planning. I wasn't as productive as I would have liked to have been, but started some important planning and conversations with colleagues. Next year I will be teaching one section of Social Studies. If you know much about me, that is hilarious! 7th grade SS is all about world history. Yeah, I am doing good to be able to match the correct continent with a given country. After last week, I am not quite as unsure about that. I am actually pretty excited that I will be learning lots of new things next year.

I have said it before, but the end of the school year always reaffirms that I truly LOVE teaching. I love every aspect of teaching: planning, instruction, assessment, reflecting, students, other teachers, all of it! Even though the year has ended, I am already excited about next school year.

So, what plans do I have for summer? I get this question all the time recently. Well, Gary has exhausted all of his leave time since he has stayed home with sick kids, and then got pneumonia and spent 5 nights in the hospital. SO, we are NOT taking a vacation. I am really sad about that, but thankful to have so many fun things to do around home!

Caedyn was moved up to the 4 year old class in Feb or March and that class takes field trips during the summer. The kids have to be 4 years old to ride the bus, so I will be taking Caedyn on her field trips this summer. They have SO much scheduled, so we will be busy bees this summer just keeping up with the daycare schedule. I am taking the kids to daycare 3 days a week like I did last summer. That way I get some me time and some time with the kiddos. At least once a week we will be going on a field trip with the school and then I will take the kids to the library like I did last year too. I can't wait!

As for that me time, I plan to catch up on posting pics on this here blog, putting pics on Snapfish, organizing my pics on the external hard drive and on the regular hard drive.

I want to re-organize my kitchen drawers and cabinets. We need more storage, but won't be getting it. So it is time for a kitchen overhaul.

I hope to clean my house top to bottom.

I would like to get the garage organized. We still have boxes out there from when we moved in. We kept thinking we would have a yard sale, but it is time to just haul it to Goodwill!

I am going to go through all the baby gear, toys, and clothes and consign for the first time.

We will see how productive my summer really is. On top of all of those projects, I would like to get the household finances reigned in and do some better meal planning and preparing. I might actually experiment in the kitchen and learn to cook. If you have any easy suggestions, PLEASE advise!