Back to school... back to school...

This is what I was welcomed to last Thursday on our first teacher work day. All of my stuff. In a huge pile in the middle of my room. I about had a heart attack. I'm amazed that just 7 days later, I'm sitting on my couch reflecting on my 4 days of work/inservice and 2 days with students! It was a lot of hard work... sweaty, non air conditioned hard work and it's still a work in progress I feel, but we are up and running.

I may regret this in November, but I will say that as of now, my class is fabulous. Yesterday, they just sat and stared at me and hung on every word I said. Love it. I'm sure this will change, but it's a good sign for now.

God-girls

Emily and I are godparents to our cousin BJ and Betsy's two girls, Isabel and Abigail. They are the cutest little things and we love being able to see them and spend time with them whenever we can. I know Betsy must talk about us at home often, because even though I don't get to see them very often, it never takes them long to warm up. When I was home last weekend for Emily's going away party, we snapped some cute pics together.

Isabel - 3 1/2

Abigail - 2I should mention a funny story. As we were getting ready to leave, I was putting on my sandals - they're orange, they're Steve Madden, in other words, they're cute. Isabel watched and said "I was wondering whose sandals those were." I replied, "Oh, do you like them?" She answered, very matter of factly, "No." HA! I said, "Do you think they're ugly?" and she answered, "Yes." Kids!

Fisher-woman

So, I went fishing today... I should say I did NOT do that much work. The guys set up all of our poles and hooked all of our bait. But, I did reel this in. But.... one of the guys took it off the hook and threw it back.
It was still a blast.