New Place Pics!

My bedroom! Nice and comfortable and a beautiful woodland view:)

The living room is cozy! My red sofas are just right for my new school colors!

A little bathroom art.

Now back to work:)

Thoughts on Week 1

Whew! My first week is over. In some ways it feels like I am getting to know a new me. She is still friendly, outgoing, and helpful. However, she is also organized, hard working, and being challeneged to really look inside herself!

I will cautiously say that I really like it here! My cohort of 12 is pretty amazing and I pray that I will build some life long relationships to add to the others who already enhance my life.

Being a student is awesome. Each morning I get to eat breakfast now!  I pack up the backpack and trudge to class. Then the magic happens. Being in an academic setting again is blissful! I LOVE learning! I really want to become an effective, compassionate counselour and I am definitely on the way.

I hope everyone's summer is going great. Tallahassee I miss thee!

Thought for the Day

Good Morning!

My simple thought for today is a question for you all...(straight from my text book on Life Span Dev.)

How old would you be if you did not know how old you were?

Hmmm, good one right:) Just let that simmer for a bit. I will share my answer later on. Happy Thursday!

Milestones!

In honor of this milestone day I figured I would write a post experimenting with all types of font! (Why not!)

Milestone 1: This is my 51st post! YAY for me. Though I don't have a theme for my thoughts or anything life changing to say...I like having this record and avenue to share.

Milestone 2: Today was my first day of gradaute classes. If you did not know, here is my summer schedule.
I am taking 12 hours (4 classes) in 7 weeks (crazy I KNOW!). That shakes out to one class a day from 9-4 (with 1 hr for lunch). Friday I don't have any class...but I have enough reading and projects to fill up the weekend.

Milestone 3: Today I ate fried fish that had been marinated in cinnamon! Yesterday I had cinnamon flavored pork chops:) My mama keeps on using cinnamon instead of paprika and the results have been interesting. Today the fish was actually yummy!

Night! (I wonder what month it will be on my 100th post? Hmmm I am thinking 2011:)

2 southern women talkin' marriage and eating boiled peanuts!

Yeah, the title of this entry is a short snapshot of the 5+ hour drive that I enjoyed with my mama on Saturday:)

In a few words here is what we have.
She drove slow, she had the GPS plugged in but did not use it. I kept turning on the air and searching for mama worthy music (not much let me tell you!).

We also chatted and laughed, and shared good silence.

We made it to Athens and I am happy to report that Betty likes my new spot:) It was her first time seeing it, and though there are boxes everywhere it is cozy! My first official guest is staying all week and I look forward to it! She bought enough items to stay forever but she assures me that she is going home to her husband;)

Now off to study and unpack and nap. PS- Stay tuned for my reflections on living on the 3rd floor!!!

ROBERTS LOVE!!!

Today was it. I said goodbye, or who knows, maybe see you later, to my first teaching job. That sounds so simple....and it was not. Roberts was more than a job to me. It was:
Laughter
Hard work
Friends
Family
Kids
Stress
Giving
Sharing
Growing
Teaching
Planning

Well I think you get it:) Roberts Elementary, tucked away in Tallahassee has been SOOO good to me. I am not the 21 year old who started working there theee years ago! I am so much more now and I know that it's because God blessed me to work with collegues who became friends. With students who became my babies. In an environment that became my heart:)

Know this... you think you are going to miss me.....but I know I will miss you more. The sweet, caring spirit at Roberts can't be copied. Today I left a clean room, with everything all packed up neatly but the memories just can't be contained. They are many and they are good!

Monday I start the UGA chapter, can't even begin to fathom what that will bring. I do know this, that I have a home in Tallahassee and I am leaving the door open. Who knows what in the world could and might happen. Exciting times lie ahead and exciting times lie behind.

Have a perfect weekend!!

Laughs

Boy oh Boy....if you ever want to see me laugh from the gut, then put me in front of some Golden Girls.

That show is the definition of humor to me.

Witty.....Crafty....Creative....Surprising!!!

Those Golden Girls have seen me through many a LATE night!

Sadly, we had to say goodbye to Blanche today:(  Thinking back we have now lost Blanche, Dorthy, and Ma in the span of a few short years. That makes me so sad!!! Anyway may they always be remembered and may Betty White teach the younger generation a few things about aging gracefully:)

Thank you for being a friend.



Traveled down the road and back again.  


Your heart is true your a pal and a confidant.






And if you threw a party.
Invited everyone you ever knew


You would see the biggest gift would be from me


And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.