To be Young Again...

In the last post I wrote about my sadness about feeling too old for the roller coasters last weekend, I also felt even older when I saw a newly hired teacher at school today (I've always been the baby at each school I've taught at), but tonight I got a huge boost to my ego. Thank goodness!

We go to "piloga" (a combination of yoga and pilates) class at the athletic club usually on Wednesday mornings since we have been home all summer, but today I had a training session to be at at school so I wasn't able to go. Jacob went by himself this morning, and I decided to go to the evening class, which I hadn't been to before. There were only four people in the class tonight and after we were finished, the instructor asked me where I had been that morning. I told her I was a teacher, blah, blah, ,blah. One of the other girls asked how long I had been teaching and I said this would be my fifth year (time flies!) and they couldn't believe I was that old! They said I looked so much younger than that. Hallelujah! Some times the littlest things make your day!

Roller Coasters, Reunions, and Wrapping Up Summer Break

Friday morning found us waking up bright and early to pick up my dad and head to good ole Santa Claus, Indiana and Holiday World. Nearly every summer we spend a day there with my younger cousins. Sadly enough, this trip was the first trip that I've actually felt old. My poor old body can't handle the roller coasters anymore. For those of you that haven't been, Holiday World has three wooden roller coasters (no metal ones) and those coasters beat my poor body to a pulp. Other than soreness the next day, we had a good time though. My cousins are at the age where they can ride, and ride, and ride and have a blast. It is always fun to be around them and feed off of their energy. We headed back a little earlier than them and stopped at Texas Roadhouse for dinner.

Sunday we went to Lake Santee near Greensburg for the annual Parmer family reunion. My grandparents bought a house on the lake a few years ago and everyone gathers there once a year. The weather was great and so was the fried chicken. I will have to say that the new recipe for strawberry pie I tried out to bring was quite good also. Jacob was also happy to get a little fishing time in on the paddleboat.

Today Jacob has been working on homework and I spent some the afternoon trying to get my classroom organized at school. I'm afraid my room looks like more of a mess than when I started. I guess is has to get worse before it can get better!

I Survived!

I indeed survived my projects due for my masters classes last week and passed with flying colors. I now have two very stimulating presentations, one on gifted students with Asperger's and one on the "overexcitabilities" in high ability students. If you ever need one let me know!What a relief to be done! I actually got done a few days early, but have not had any desire to type anything on the computer until now! I have a few weeks to recover before school and the next masters class begins.

Since getting finished with the classes, I have been trying to relax, but am starting to find my mind wandering towards thinking about school more. Jacob, my mom, and I even went to Morristown to start work on my room today. They were a great help. I is amazing how much time it takes to get ready for each new year! Can you believe there are only two and a half weeks left before school starts?! Hopefully I'll have some pictures for you when the room is finally ready for kiddos.

Other than schoolwork we've been catching up on doctor's and dentist appointments, did a little shopping yesterday afternoon, and I've been trying to leave Jacob alone and let him get his homework done since his classes are still going on. Friday we are planning to go to Holiday World with my younger cousins, so we're hoping it doesn't rain. Whatever you are up to, have a great rest of the week!

Homework, House Shopping, and more Homework

...those are my excuses as to why I've been such a terrible blogger lately. Serously, that is about all that has been happening around here for the past few weeks.

I have one more week left (and three more projects to turn in) before my summer classes are over. I will be so happy when I get these projects done and turned in. It seems like I spend all my time in front of the computer, and don't get to do anything fun like check blogs! But after next Friday, I promise to be a better blogger.

Jacob started his master's classes two weeks ago. Computer time is prime around here, it seems like it just gets passed from one person to the other, and the other reads a text book or something until it is their turn on the computer again. Jacob is supposed to get a new free laptop when he gets the new textbooks they ordered this year (one of the few "perks" to being a teacher besides the molding of tomorrow's leaders mumbo jumbo). Then we'll have two computers. Woo hoo!

We have looked at about a million houses in the last month. Hopefully something good will happen on the housefront soon. I know I should be patient and know it will happen at the right time, but we have lived in this apartment now for two years and I am ready to get out!

In other news, we've been to two more weddings since my last post. Raymond Nay (one of Jacob's former baseball players when he was coaching at SW) got married one weekend, and then the next weekend another teacher at Waldron, A.J., got married (Melissa-we missed you and Chris there!). I think we've been to five already this summer, but luckily don't have another until my cousin Beth's in August and then Ben and Ashley's in September. Both summer baseball leagues finished up last week. We spent almost a week sleeping at my parents with their dog-who is spoiled rotten, and then on the fourth of July we went to Greenfield to Jacob's grandma's house (she lives in a great firework-watching location). Other than that we've just been doing homework and house shopping!