This has been such a long week. I know I've had good intentions to write in this blog a lot lately and I've failed miserably. I have got to be better. Writing is so cathartic and yet, you have to make time to do it which is always a challenge. I hope everyone is doing well. I am doing great aside from feeling like I've gained a hundred pounds from eating amazing food all summer and lounging around for two months. Yet it seems like it's only been a couple of weeks off since I've been in my classroom so much! I don't know what has taken me so long out there but I have been out there for hours upon hours and I'm still not ready. We have professional development starting Monday and then the students will be back on Thursday. I can NOT believe it's time for the kiddos again. I mean, on the one hand I am excited because I miss those little boogers in the summer. They are seriously a great deal of the joy in my life! On the other hand, I am not mentally ready to go, go, go just yet! I still have about a million things to do to be ready for those little children to come to school. Right now I am working on getting some notes together about the TEACCH method and the ABA-Verbal Behavior method. I am going to be leaning heavily on the latter for intensive instruction this year but I also build my classroom around the principles of the former, as well. So I'm trying to mesh these two methods, prepare materials, get organized, create a master schedule, create individual schedules....ah! It's all so overwhelming! :) It is good, though, to be back in a routine. That's some of my problem in the summer. It's so hard to do anything productive when you've got free time. It's so much easier to sit around refreshing Facebook and watching crappy TV shows and eating. Oh, there is so much eating that happens in the summer. I am going to get back on the proverbial wagon once school begins. I'm sure my waistline will appreciate it. One of the better things about this year is that I will not have to be worrying about graduate school while teaching. That will be fantastic! Also, I'm not going to lie. I'm excited about a slight pay raise. So there are lots of things to look forward to with the impending school year. Bryan will be graduating in May so that will definitely help our bank account. We are going to be doing a little more work to the house and hopefully we can plan and take an amazing vacation this next summer. I am trying to convince my friends K and J to go to Europe with Bryan and me. How cool would that be? Of course, it would require a lot of cash and lot of planning but we're still young! We don't have any extra responsibilities except for our doggie babies. Why shouldn't we, right? I love traveling so much and Bryan hasn't gotten the opportunity to go many places. He needs to experience the world and I want to do it with him! We're gonna start exploring the world by going to Chicago over Labor Day weekend with our friend E and possibly our other friend C who used to live there. That way he can show us around! Oh, and hopefully we can get E and C to fall in love and live happily ever after. :)
Oh, the possibilities!
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