It's been awhile...since I've...blogged upon this site

I was going to say something along the lines of "I can't wait for April and Spring Break to come...but realized I never really said hello to March...since the last post was on Feb 26...wow!)

So hello March....


...alright...


...and now I'm looking forward to April and Spring Break!

There have been a couple of reasons I haven't posted lately, the main reason being we no longer have consistent internet at our house courtesy of our neighbors. They have decided to become very un-courteous and password-protect their WiFi. I would like to think that if I had internet access of my own, I would be very willing to allow people to "borrow" from me. But on the other hand...I would also like to pay credit cards, do some banking, and set up all online-bill pay options. So maybe that wouldn't be such a great idea.

Another reason is that school has become rediculously busy again. I've been helping out with Science Olympiad, a middle school afterschool geek (we prefer that term) program. We finally had our regional competition a week and a half ago and we qualified for state! So on April 25th, we'll be taking on 38 other teams across the state to try and qualify for nationals....(notice there wasn't an exclamation point at the end of that).

I'm kidding...it would be great to spend a weekend in May down in Georgia with 15 geeky 6th, 7th, and 8th graders...

My final reason...and maybe one a little more on a serious note, is because life has been filled with a bit more stress lately after we found out that there was a job opening at Denver Christian teaching Middle School Science and P.E. It's actually at the K-8 school that I didn't teach at, but I know a number of the teachers there and it would have been phenomenal to have the opportunity of working with them. After a crazy amount of prayer, discussion, and conversations with others, we decided that we needed to stay at Timothy and in the western suburbs for more than one year and continue God's work here.

It killed me...literally...to think about having to say no to Denver, because I know I left some of me there after student teaching, so...VACATION!!!! We're (I'm) hoping that we can spend some time there this summer. One way tickets from Midway to Denver are about $50 each, so it all depends on Linds' class and work...and somebody's wedding that we have to go to this summer...and Twins games...and maybe Cubs games...and hopefully heckling at White Sox games.

Anyways, Linds is looking to leave school...and I guess I am too after being here a solid 12 consecutive hours...

So long everybody!