Friday, February 23, 2007

Almost overwhelmed...

Over the past few days 'things' have been piling up and yesterday morning I nearly reached the completely overwhelmed level. Whenever I get like this I try to remember that I just need, as my mom used to say, to take things one step at a time. So, I took this attitude with me to parent-teacher conferences last night, which turned out to be quite a success. During the parent-teacher conferences in the fall I met with several parents who just couldn't believe that their son or daughter wasn't a 'B' or an 'A' student. So, armed with examples of their child's actual work, I marched into the gym prepared for war! As it turned out, all I had to do was show the parents my 'evidence' and they seemed to finally 'get it'- much to my relief.

Today I attended an amazing workshop focused on creating my very own Moodle site. The plan is to try to get some monies from PAC to help update our web server in order to run Moodle sites through MRSS. If this moves forward, then the possibilities for my site are endless! One of the teachers from Thomas Haney showed us as an animation of a meandering river turning into an oxbow lake. I'm thrilled at the thought of moving my practice into the Twenty-First Century!

Tonight I'm focused on accomplishing a few more tasks, which will help to alleviate my stress. Tomorrow Stephanie and Brian are coming over for lunch, so that will be a nice break from the heaps of tasks I need to tackle :-)

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Valentine's Day!


Last night Scott and I celebrated the day of l'amour by enjoying a wonderful Greek feast. Afterwards we went to Starbucks where we slowly sipped on liquid pleasure. This was surely a much improved Valentine's Day over last year when Scott was out on a 'man date' with a former co-worker and I was babysitting.

Wedding Update:

The wedding is now thirty days away! Scott and I just have a few minor decisions to make and then we are in the clear! (touch wood). It was great to hear this week that my family from Portland will be making the trip up to be with us. It will be especially nice to see Emily as she is all grown up now! Yikes. It feels like yesterday when my mom received her baby pics in the mail. Time is definitely marching forward!