Weekend Update

I'm babysitting the Roth kids tonight and while we're watching the Nickelodeon Original Movie Spectacular I thought I would update quickly.

Student teaching is glorious. The kids are great and my love for teaching is back. I leave this school and start in 5th grade on Wednesday. I'm excited for yet another change considering theres been a lot of that already on this little journey.

I had company in the cottage three nights in a row this week. Monday night Cort was over and we watched Nights in Rodanthe. I haven't finished it. I was disappointed. If you've seen it you can probably guess which part I'm talking about. Cort was less than interested and when Chelsea came by I turned it off. Tuesday night we had a very small high school reunion. Nello was in town and he and Jessica came over. We had a few drinks and caught up. I stayed up too late but it was worth it. Finally on Wednesday night Kristen and Traci came over after class for dinner. We had Hamburger Helper, corn and ice cream and talked for a few hours about life and things. I love them and such fun can not be described. Kristen and Mark are on a huge new life journey and I couldn't be happier for them and of course we had to hear all about it.

After entertaining all week, last night I worked on my Marshall ISD online job application, ate Chinese food and got in bed early. I'm working on the last disc of Big Love so after an episode of that I was down for the count and was asleep by about 9:30.

Marshall schools were released at noon today but since my teacher loves me dearly and I taught all morning so she could put grades in the computer, I got to leave at 11:00. I took a few hours off before I went to take my practice 4th-8th grade reading certification test. I took it in the workroom of the education office and found it nearly impossible to focus with all the buzz going on around the office. Not to mention that it was beautiful outside today and I knew that my friends were all doing much more fun things than me. Needless to say I'm not sure how well I did but like I said it is only practice. I hopefully I pulled off a 75 and can take the real thing and be done. Chelsea mentioned a little run to J Tree tonight and after the afternoon I've had I totally can't wait.

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras in Jefferson. It will be fun to spend the afternoon with friends. Mardi Gras is one of my favorite seasons.

Sunday will probably be a regular Sunday at Mom and Dad's house- church, rest, food and laundry.

Overall life is happy and things are well. My house is clean and a great weekend is upon us!