I'm Still Here!

I'm baaaack! I'm pretty sure that anyone who used to follow my sporadic updates has long since stopped checking. Throughout the school year, I would think to myself "I should post something on the blog." Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Partly because I was fairly busy and partly because my computer time is used checking things out on Facebook. So here I am posting my first blog since September. I decided that even if noone else reads this, it is entertaining for me to go back and read about some of the things that were going on once upon a time in my life. And luckily, I was able to remember my username and password to actually post something!

So after many months of absence, I'm trying to decide what I should include in this blog. Maybe I will summarize a bit of what this year was like. I think what I will remember most about this past year is that I felt tired a lot! I think I am starting to feel my age a lot more than I used to! This year definitely had its ups and downs. We switched Mateo to a new daycare in the fall which did not go well. He cried often and didn't want to be dropped off. Things got better after a while, but he always missed his other daycare lady. After half the year, due to a couple of circumstances, I switched him back to his old daycare. This year Mateo went to preschool. He really enjoyed his class and loved going. Troy started his second year in Waubun and also continued drivers' training in Bagley. Mateo got used to asking, "Is Daddy working twice today?" Scheduling and finding time for this extra-curricular has gotten a wee bit tedious, and we are relieved that he will be done with this at the end of the summer, hopefully. This was my thirteenth year teaching, and I had a pretty good year in that respect. I had a really great group of seventh graders who made me think that if all my students were this fun to teach I could actually see myself doing this for many more years.

This summer we are excited about our west coast tour taking place in July. Mateo doesn't know this yet, but we are planning to go to Disneyland! Our trip will start in California and then continue to Oregon and Washington. I'm hoping our five-year-old can handle all the traveling, etc. I should comfort myself to think that my parents took four kids ranging in ages 12-4 to Finland for two months one summer. I should be able to handle one kid for eleven days!