Sweet Life in the City

I feel like a blinked and it went from Thursday to Monday! Friday morning we had a kindergarten ease-in day and I was able to meet most of the students that will be in our class this year. One of our students is a sibling of some students I know from my last school. I see at least seven familiar faces at my new school and it has been a great comfort to me. It seems like we will have a really great group of kids and I am excited to see how much they will learn and grow this school year. Friday afternoon was our staff luncheon and finishing up things to get ready for today. Friday night I was pretty tired, but Friday nights have become Jeremy's and I's night to watch an episode of whatever crime series we have been watching. This started a few years ago when we got hooked on "Midsomer Murders". We managed to watch all 19 seasons and since season 20 has not made it to Netflix yet we had to find another series. We have gone through two other series ("Hinterland"...

It has been a pretty full week. It was full of events that I had been waiting for since May and thankfully I can say that I survived. Last Thursday I drove to my new school to start a new job, filled with so many people that I did not know. Thankfully I had been communicating with the teacher I am working with and I had met the 4th grade teacher at a conference a few weeks ago. It was pretty awkward the first few minutes. Another new teacher and I found each other pretty quick, we were the ones looking around like we had no idea what was going on! It didn't take long for the kindergarten team to find me and took me right under their wing. We jumped right into introductions and all the beginning of school information. My new school is doing some really amazing things and implementing some awesome programs. Some of the programs are pretty new to everyone (they are in the process of becoming an IB school if you know anything about that) and so thankfully everyone is also learning. It ...

About two years ago I was scrolling through Pinterest and a quote by C.S. Lewis caught my eye. It was three little words that spoke volume to my life and it was a phrase that I would hear the Lord whisper to my heart many, many times over the last year, " Courage, dear heart " .  I knew this quote was from the Narnia series, but I needed to do a little more digging into the quote. To my surprise the context of the quote would only make the quote even more powerful. The quote is taken from Chapter 12 of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I will be adding that part of the book at the end of this post if you wanted to read the context of the quote. When school ended in June the anxiety of the next school year seemed to increase. I kept it at bay by reminding myself that I had all summer before I had to think about the changes that were coming to our family. But here I sit, less than 24 hours away from starting this new journey and the nerves are pretty fierce. I mentioned in my l...

I stopped blogging almost two months ago. I have to be honest that I stopped because I was aggravated with a situation and decided that I would no longer be sharing any personal information about my family online. But I have found myself several times wanting to sit down and write some things out and this is the most beneficial means to calm the thoughts raging in my head. It has been a busy summer and it is sad as I sit here thinking this is my last Monday of summer break. Here are some highlights of our summer. 1. The last time I had posted the girls and I were heading to camp. It was an amazing time for us all. I ended up being a counselor in one of the rooms. I have to admit that I was so anxious about it! I don't normally work with 5th and 6th graders. I also was assigned to leading one of the class times and leading all the campers (divided into groups) on how to do a devotion. They obviously did not know me well enough and my dislike for doing things without preparing for ...