Just breathe...

Well - things went from bad to worse with my last post. I had a major meltdown Friday night b/c I just couldn't take ONE more money issue being thrown my way. I had myself a pretty good pity party...my face looked like a swollen punching bag by Saturday morning from all the crying. BUT, I can only allow myself a pity party for so long ~ I have my priorities straight. I know it could be worse, & I am grateful for the little things. I am a worrier by nature, but I am trying to let it go and not worry. It will all work out - it always does. And, I am proud of myself b/c I still haven't caved in and charged anything! So...yay me!

In computer news, I spent yesterday unhooking things from my home computer and loading up my school laptop. So...all "my stuff" is still on the broken down computer, but I am up and running on my school one. (At least I have a school laptop - how lucky is that!?) So...my home computer will remain fried until I have the extra money to fix it.

And...while I was working on getting the printer and camera loaded to the laptop. FedEx called needing directions and delivered the wireless router that Kevin ordered. Thank You FedEx!! That got me off of his laptop and on mine....now he can play poker on-line in the living room (ha!) ~ and I can do schoolwork and blog at the same time! No more fussing for the computer!!! LOL!

I was able to load the pictures from Thursday night's banquet:

This is me & Sydnei (the student who nominated me). She looked so nice! It was such an honor to be nominated and thought of by a former student. She had to read her essay that she wrote about me while I came up to receive my award. Yes, I got a little teary eyed! There were over 30 nominations and her essay was one of 10 chosen! I taught her well ~ ha! This is one of the students I got extra attached to b/c when I moved from 2nd to 3rd grade, I got to keep my students. So..I taught her two years in a row.
This is me with another teacher that was honored. We taught together until this year. It was great having a chance to see her and get caught up!! She is one of my favorite people from my old job. Plus, she brought me the exciting news that even with all the behavior issues I had last year, all my students scored advanced or proficient on benchmark except for 6 of them. This is AWESOME! Out of the 23 kids, when I got them, only 3 were advanced or proficient!! I am so proud of them! So, somehow with all that chaos last year in the classroom, I still managed to teach the ones that wanted to learn! Such a relief!!