Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Some pages and an update

I don't have a ton to update you on. My life is very hectic, full of so many things and overall just exhausting right now. I think alot of people schluf Kindergarten teachers off as if that is the easiest job to have. Well, if you are one of those people, I have news for you! Teaching Kindergarten has to be the most tiring, complicated, underrated, busy and yet rewarding job you could possibly have. It definitely is not something you can walk away from at 3:30pm on the nose every day. I come home alot of the time with funny stories that people can't believe, but I always come home with sad stories too. It is a whirlwind: I love some my co-workers, I love most of my kids, I admire some of my colleaugues (notice I don't call ALL of them colleaugues) -- there are just so many things that are holding us back educationally as a staff, as a city, as a country --- the beaurocracy of it, the 'too many chiefs, not enough indians', the 'it's not my job' -- it is hard to deal with.

I am still teaching computers at night on Mondays--- which makes for a very long day and sometimes I don't really get to see the girls in the middle because of naps. That is so difficult.

Lauren is growing up so quickly, I can't believe it. She is so funny and full of her own personality now! She says some words very clearly, especially 'thank you' and 'pap pap', 'achoo' and 'wwweeee'. She also loves to blow kisses and give really sloppy open mouth kisses :)

Madelyn is in nursery school and is quite the social butterfly -- now there's a shocker! She comes home with these awesome songs, crafts (all which I steal and do with my Kindergarten!) and she loves going there! She goes three half days a week !

Other than that-- we have been hanging with family and friends and enjoying our time off tremendously!

Here are some scrap pages I have done in the past few weeks.
First, I am an October guest for Franziska over at Sunshine Studio (hello... hell yea I am lucky). These are the first two layouts I created with her fabulous kit called Free Spirit! And you don't believe these two layouts came from the same kit --- believe it !
Next, I have been attending Duchess Designs' speed scrap every Saturday night (because I am a loser, but love speed scrappin) - and here are the layouts I have made so far!
So, it's official --- everyone I know is addicting to the speed scrap. It's a ton of fun, if you have never done it before, you should totally try it! Can be a little stressful at first, but once you realize no one is trying to trick you -- and they are flexible, it can be a complete blast!
Christie and I hosted one at Digital Candy this past Sunday and gave away a fabulous freebie mini to everyone who participated! Here is the layout I did for that using my own colaborative kit with Christie Lemmon called In Dreams.