Some times I get really excited about things. The problem is that it can sometimes lead to disappointment. There has been quite a bit of that in my life. Eager about something and then it not coming through. I think that is probably the case for many people.

I was pretty sure I was getting a house. The paperwork was completed and it was just a waiting game until the date arrived and the transaction took place. Yet there was that part of me that said “it’s not actually done”. It became official yesterday! I am a homeowner again and it feels so great.

There is nothing worse than achieving something and then taking a huge step back. I feel like I’ve really made a big step in my life by regaining something so big. It has been a journey between the time I sold my old house and now.

This is a big stop along my travels. It is a wonderful feeling.

It’s report card time. I hate report card time because it consumes so much of my time. We are currently transitioning to a new report card and have two different grading systems. We recently recieved the new forms and it was three seperate pdfs. So each kid had 3 seperate files to make a complete report card. That meant I had 84 seperate documents to deal with to complete my report cards. Just opening all of those seemed like a nightmare….then it meant typing names into each seperate one. Didn’t seem like a nightmare because it was.

So I broke out my Adobe skills. Okay they are pretty limited, but I’m good at pushing buttons and seeing how things work. I was able to merge them so I now have 28 files and names flowed through. Much more manageable.

I had sent it off to a technology support person at the district thinking it might be helpful for others. That turned into a day of merging each grade into the single file. It was frustrating at times. Merged forms wouldn’t work correctly. Form fields had to be edited correctly.

Monday the info was sent out to hundreds of teachers as our district is verly large. I was asked if I wanted my name mentioned for my work. Nope. I just feel really good about doing something that helped so many others.

Going through and picking songs for a cd while I’m writing this. Specific moments aren’t brought to mind when I hear the songs. It just invokes feelings. When songs come out and I like them I will listen to them over and over. So I think they become part of the landscape of that moment in my life. They leave an impression. It just feels nice.

I had a friend recently mention “those that can’t, teach”. I’ve heard it before. I was going to write how much it takes to teach and how it isn’t an easy job.

This week each grade level worked on a writing prompt. I had a fifth grade teacher share with me that their prompt was about something that they had hoped for and whether or not they got it and how they felt about it.. A hope of one of the fifth graders…To be in my class and then getting me.

I don’t think that’s person’s belief will ever be changed nor will others. Obviously since the statement is part of our culture many people believe it and possibly there is some truth to it. The hope story doesn’t even address the sentence. I just know that each day I’m a huge part of a kid’s life. It’s a huge responsibility. One that I don’t take lightly…