Here is a video I did for one of my classes...it was my favorite assignment!

Life

I know it has been a long time since I have posted a blog. Life has been a little crazy this summer and it looks like it isn't going to get any better! On a good note I am over half way done with my master's program....YAY! I have now finished 6 out of 11 classes. My next class is up in the air because they changed the weekend dates to it last minute and I can't go to the Saturday classes. I called CMU to see what my options were and I may be able to do an independent study for it or I can take it through the main campus, up in Mt. Pleasant...which is a lot farther than Saginaw. Also, the main campus class is 4 weekends instead of 3 so it is a lot more driving (and with gas prices...OUCH!), not to mention I would have to take 4 Saturday off work and stay in a hotel room. Another downside of that option is it starts in September but doesn't finish until December. Meanwhile my second fall class starts in October and ends in November. One class at a time is rough but there is no way I could do 2 and these overlap! I pray I will be able to do the independent study. I can make it to the Friday classes but 2 1/2 of the Saturdays I would have to miss....which is a lot of class time. GRRR! I thought I was supposed to rest and relax during my month off of school...no such luck.

In other news, the brunch that I help put on every summer turned out great this year and I am once again amazed at my God above! I could see him working all around me. Our goal this year was 340 people and we had 354. We were running out of seats! Our speaker arrived safely and she was phenomenal! What an amazing testimony she has!

Things with Adopt a Pet are going great and I have been trying to volunteer as much as I can this summer since I can't during the school year. I just helped out at the last event for the summer last weekend. Currently I am fostering 2 6 weeks old puppies that are adorable!

OK, I'm headed to actually read a book for pleasure...thanks for reading!

It's spring!

I know I haven't posted in a while but things have been a little crazy in my life. I am almost done with another class, yea! In my spare time I have been trying to help my sister make a scrap book for my nephew's openhouse. It has been a lot of fun looking at the old pictures! Memorial weekend I went to my friends, Maria & Aaron's, house for their son's baptism. It was great to see friends from college and we had a lot of fun catching up! I am so excited to have some more gorgeous weather so I can work outside and also just relax in the sun....with my flip flops!

overloaded

Well, my next class has started and so my works begins. I am starting to feel overloaded and that there are not enough hours in the day to finish my work. I am looking forward to spring break next week so I won't be working as many hours and maybe I can get A LOT done...that's the plan anyways but we all know how well plans work sometimes. I don't think the work would be so bad if there weren't so many chapters to read and if the text wasn't so boring. I am having a hard time reading the book and then understanding what I read well enough to answer the questions. I have the night off and I really should get some done...but all I want to do is go take a nap!

Life

I know it has been a while since I have blogged and for that I am sorry. Life has been crazy lately and very busy. Between working 2 jobs, going to Florida, fostering dogs and being in school I'm lucky lately to be at the right place at the right time. I have been getting quite a few subbing days in, which is good, but last week I was asked to be a long term sub as an aide. This is a new position for me and I have mixed feelings but I'm excited to be at the same place day to day, and also to know I am working the next day.

I did sub some last week in a second grade classroom and I have something new to share. We were reading an article about global warming and the Arctic melting. We talked about the Arctic being the North Pole. I asked "what will happen if this continues and the Arctic melts?" All the students said " then Santa won't have a place to live!" I thought this was so cute and definitely in the minds of 8 year olds, this is truth!

Florida here I come!

Well, I am sooo ready to head to Florida! I need warmth! I finally mailed in my CD portfolio, which was a huge relief. I also finished my essay and emailed that to the professor but I haven't heard from him on if he received it or not. Now that my homework is officially done I can start packing. I have no idea what I want to take with me. At least I know what I will be wearing to the wedding! That is one of the advantages to being in the wedding.

On another note, I now have a tooth that is giving me a lot of trouble. I went to the dentist, he thinks it might have an infection so he gave me antibiotics. While I was there though he kept tapping my sore tooth with his instrument and now that aggravated it and made it worse. Isn't going to the dentist supposed to fix that problem, not intensify it?

OK, enough complaining. I think it is time for a nap!

Class is done...maybe

Well, my class is done, kinda. I still have to finish my CD and do my essay question, plus I need to start getting ready to leave for Florida. I feel like there is so much I need to get done this week with not much time to do it. Luckily there is no school tomorrow so my 'plan' is to get a lot of it done then, but we all know how well our plans work sometimes! I hope I can get much of it done.

On another note, I am really looking forward to the time away in Florida. Sometimes we just need to get away and I really feel like I do. It will be refreshing, and hopefully warmer. I really pray for warm weather since I am going done there for a wedding and the wedding is on the beach. Yea!

Well, I am going to try to go relax and figure out a game plan for the week. I hope everyone has a great week!