I like what I do...

It's pretty cool that it's the end of May and I can actually type that title! Ha!
As another school year comes to close, I have to admit, I like what I do! We had field day on Friday and I LOVE field day. I always have a great time. I hope that my students will always remember they had a teacher that was willing to jump in the bounce house with them and run the 50 yard dash against the entire class! I hope they will remember that they had a teacher that tried to treat them with respect and that cared about them individually.

Yes there are days that I am at the end of my rope, yes there are days that an "office" job sounds very appealing, however, overall I have to say, I like what I do. I have had a really great year and have seen some tremendous growth in several of my students. It's a privilege to get to be a part of that.

I got this really neat platter as a gift from one of my students! If you can't tell she painted each one of my students by looking at their yearbook pictures. She has a neat pottery business called http://www.paintedpiggies.com/.

Wow I am blogging from my iPhone how fun is this new toy!!!! Happy mothers day

Website

If you have a minute check out my mom's new website! I am super proud of her!
I think she has amazing talent, and boy does she love her horses!

www.fivehorsestudio.com

Stoned!

I bet that title got your attention!
NO I am not using illegal substances.
No I am not in a hockey game
No I am not receiving or handing out some archaic punishment
and no I am not going to see some over the hill rockers either...

It's this:



Tuesday and Wednesday we gave the TAKS test at school and so we are required to be "actively monitoring" at all times. In other words don't have your butt at your desk, be up moving around. Well, I did for two days straight, but in the WRONG shoes. I also ran Tuesday night. Now I have what seems to be called a "stone bruise."

It stinks. It hurts. It woke me up this morning. (anyone that knows me knows that is BAD NEWS) I have iced it, I tried to wear my tennis shoes this morning, I tried to go barefoot, it all hurts.

NO I haven't tried to "stay off of it." That's just ridiculously impossible, I have stuff to do!!!

I guess all those cheap shoes from payless are coming back to haunt me now...

Thank you note, past due...

If you were at church with me today you saw me very teary eyed. This always bothers my kids but when will they learn that it really doesn't take much. We had our annual high school senior recognition day and each year I think I will be fine, but as soon as they introduce all the seniors and mention where they will go to school, they then have the families come up and Gary (our Pastor) leads them all in a sweet prayer. That's when I cry. That's when I grab my little girl's hand and pray for time to slow down some, or when I do the math and realize my boy is only 7 years away from doing this, and I cry. I am not the only one though so I don't feel too silly.

Then the service begins and I think I am gonna pull it back together. The service we attend is considered "contemporary" meaning we have a band, not a choir. We sing a lot of contemporary worship songs over the traditional hymns. Not today. Today they put an old hymn in and well, it got me. We sang, "Victory in Jesus" today. I will put the words at the end for you. Well, there are two songs that I just love and that's Victory in Jesus and Blessed Assurance. The reason I love them is because when I hear them, I can hear my sweet grandfather singing them in church and humming them at home. WAY off tune, but still a sweet sound. So the tears just fell today as I thought of him and missed him.


I wish I could thank him for living his life in such a way that just screamed out love and grace.

I wish I could thank him for serving his God faithfully to the end.

I wish I could thank him for praying for me.

I wish I could thank him for sharing God with me.

I wish I could thank him for showing God to me.

One day I will be able to...


Yes that's me with my sad attempt at a Dorethy Hammel haircut. I thought looked super cute in that outfit. Hey! Maybe Joshua did get his skinny legs from me. What the heck happened!

http://my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis2/victry.html

Here are the words to the song, complete with music in the background. Sounds just like it did in that South Texas church!

Sounds

This is kinda silly, but what are some of your favorite sounds? They say the sense of smell is most attached to memory and I believe that. I brought two dressers with us when we moved to Atlanta, they were from my grandparents' house that I had spent many summers with, then they were in storage for awhile. I remember moving into our home and was ready unpack the kids clothes and opened the first drawer and was just undone because it smelled just like my grandparents house. A sweet fragrance and trip down memory lane.

but I digress, I was thinking about what my favorite sounds are. I think I was prompted by the sound of the rain starting when I was standing outside this morning.

Here are some others I thought of:

• Joshua and Jessica's true belly laugh
• the sound of the garage door going up: Chris is home!
• the sound of the waves crashing to shore
• that sound that ski's make going down the mountain
• the coffee pot
• rain
• my ring tone when Chris calls "I've always love you" by Third Day. sometimes I don't answer right away to let it play a little longer
• Chris snoring. really I do like that sound it's kinda comforting
• "Mom" "Mommy"
• the sound of feet hitting the pavement in a rhythm when i run. A slllloooowwwww rhythm
• "hey hon" only from Chris though...
• the sound of kids playing outside in the yard
• a horse galloping (not with me on it though)
• fernando ortega's voice
• Dave South's voice (He's the commentator for every Aggie sport)
• the crack of the bat
• the sound the ball makes hitting Caleb's glove when Joshua makes a strong solid pitch
• the little music that plays when you turn on Wii sports. I know I am gonna kick some computer tennis butt. (pathetic I know)
• school sounds. kids, teachers, cafeteria, playgrounds, lockers closing, etc.
• an acoustic guitar

Well I know there are more. I will add when I come across them, but I have been lazy enough this Saturday morning so I must go do something productive...

Dental Disaster

I deserve an award for the self-control I exhibited yesterday at the dentist office. Really I do!! I was so mad I had to just keep repeating in my mind "just leave, don't cuss, just leave don't cuss" over and over and over in my mind! It worked, I managed to get out of there and the police didn't have to be called!!

Here's what went down...this is from the letter that I sent the dentist office today:

After my appointment at your office yesterday I felt that you should be made aware of the lasting impression that was made by your staff. I think that it would be helpful if you could experience your practice from a patient’s point of view, since without patients you will not have a practice at all. So here is my experience with your office:

I arrived at 3:50 for my 4:00 appointment. I was not greeted when I entered the office because the person at the front desk was trying to figure out how to complete the payment for another patient. I even heard the patient have to ask for her $50 discount and then things had to be voided and re-entered. She was clearly unsure how to do this.

I was taken back around 4:05ish by your hygienist, and given a “tour” of your facilities. Honestly, I really didn’t care and looking back this was a time waster. The hygienist then proceeded to take my x-rays. This was long and painful process. I have had many dental x-rays in the past and this experience was by far the worst. She was EXTREMELY slow. It took half an hour to complete the x-rays. Then she and the assistant spent the next 20 plus minutes checking the pockets in my gums and attempting to enter it in the computer, which they did not know how to do.

Then she says she is going to get you to check me “so I wouldn’t have to wait for you” after the cleaning. She leaves and then has to come back and deal with the computer again in order for you to read my x-rays in another room. Seems to me this should have been done before she left. It’s now past 5:00 and I have been in the chair for over an hour and had nothing more done than x-rays and a gum check. Unacceptable if you ask me. After 5:00 you come in and spend approx 10 minutes talking to me about names, your house you are thinking of buying and flossing. Much like the tour, I really didn’t care about these things, and as I look back it was extremely self-centered of you not realize how long I had been there and not working to speed up the process for your patient. So you inform me that I need gum treatment on one area and that you will get your office manager to find out the cost etc.

So now it’s about 5:20ish. I wait longer and the office manager makes an attempt to come give me some pamphlet about an antibiotic so I would have “something to look at” while I waited. Then at approx 5:30 she comes in and attempts to have me reschedule for the gum treatment and a polish. I was incredulous to say the least. I was told that I could not have my teeth cleaned, because there wasn’t “time”. What did this mean? Did your staff need to go home? Was there another patient that had an appt and he/she was worth more money? Did they have a date they needed to get to? Dinner in the oven? Really? You can have me totally waste MY time, but THEIR precious schedule can’t be interrupted? Bottom line, I was punished for your incompetence.

It’s a proven fact that a happy customer tells approximately 3 people about their experience and an unhappy customer tells 10. I had no less than 5 people ask me to “tell them how it goes” because they too were looking for a dentist. I will definitely be telling them about my very poor experience.

Ugh! I don't think I have been that mad in a long time. Truly shocked. I hate going to the dentist and boy did this add fuel to that fire!!