A Little Bit of Everything

No new videos or pictures to post. Just some rambling thoughts that have been going through my head the past few days.

This semester of school has been crazy. As a teacher of 3 different subjects and about 120 total students, the office decided it would be fun to mix it up a bit and make it so I flip flop back and forth between subjects all day long instead of grouping my classes together. I am constatly shuffling through worksheets and powerpoint slides to quickly set up for the next class. This makes it really fun when I get worksheets and lesson plans confused and have to ask my students "what class is this again?" I also showed that video in my previous post about Savannah. I linked it with a writing assignment. I think it went well. The middle school years can sometimes be the hardest and my hope is that my students took something away from that video and will extend friendship to those who need it most.

I've been called to be the weeblos assistant, which so far hasn't been too bad. But now I have a dreading feeling that I'm going to be called to be the actual leader. The current leader has been doing it for 7 years and has been giving me these cryptic hints indicating she might be released. Then yesterday I got a crash course on recording all the boys badges. Why would an assistant need to know that?! I only pray they call Blake in to do it with me. I have no idea how the scouting program works and if I'm being completely honest, I really am not at all interested in the scouting program. I kind of see this going in the same direction as when I was asked to teach 6th grade PE: me sitting on the bleachers while the kids played a game. "Mrs. Millecam, so and so just fouled me!" Me: "Oh really, I didn't see it. Keep playing!"

I am trying something new this month too. I was reflecting on my marriage and thinking how after 7 1/2 years I feel like there are a lot of things that I take for granted. I've gotten comfortable in my marriage instead of making efforts to improve it. So starting today (February 1) I am going to make a conscious effort to show more appreciation for Blake. Each day I'm going to remember to tell him thank you for something he did (like doing the dishes, taking care of Brooke etc...) and just letting him know I love him. I know this sound silly, but I sometimes I forget to say thank you for the small things or I forget to to call just to tell him I love him and not about something I forgot at the grocery store. I took an institute class where we read an article entitled "Change yourself--change your marriage" The jist of it said that so many people focus on the things they want to change about their spouse instead of looking inward. So I'm going to take this advice to heart (many years later) and see how it goes. I'm excited to see what changes take place. With Blake and I both being so busy, I feel like this will help keep the focus on us, our marriage, and our family and not let those outside sources of stress influence us as much.

And I can't end a blog post without mentioning some things that Brooke is up to:
*She wakes up in the morning and we can hear her singing in her crib. Then when she hears us also up and moving around she goes 'Hello?...Hellllooowww?" and then "Mommy? Daddy?" It makes me smile everyday.
*She loves the movie "Finding Nemo" and will say "Nemo. I want watch Nemo." And she will actually sit through most of it.
*Last night she wanted to dress up in her fairy wings, put her socks on her hands and dance around in the basement.
*On Saturday I was vacuuming and left Brooke at the kitchen table with a coloring book. When I finished I came back into the kitchen to find Brooke was nowhere to be seen but the cuboard with the cleaning supplies was open. I did some searching and saw that Brooke's bedroom door was closed. I opened it and Brooke immediatly runs over to me says 'here go!" and hands me a bottle of febreeze (luckily that is all that it was!) that she had been spraying all over her room. Naughty girl, she knew she was in trouble!