The countdown begins

2 more days........Today our office officially started singing the lyrics "schools out for the summer!" The environment has quickly gone from stress and tension to this fun laid back summer is here joy! I LOVE being a teacher and I LOVE my job but there is something about the anticipation of summer break that never gets old. June, July and August are fantastic months! Summer break here I come....

He loved people

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It has been two years since Bruce ran into the waters to help save a strangers life and there is something about the example of how he lived his life that will forever be on my heart. He loved God, loved people, and lived a life that showed it.

God I thank you for the life of Bruce. I thank you for the ways that you used him to reach so many people. I thank you his example, his friendship, and the seeds he planted in my own life. I pray for his wife Jill as she continues to grieve the loss of her husband. I pray each day you give me the strength and wisdom to live this verse out in the way that I live my life.

Sometimes you just ask why?

In class and 100% healthy one day and the next day the student is fighting for their life. There are days that as a teacher I never want to have to repeat. Today is one of those days. It leaves me shaking my head and just asking why? Great kid, great student and so young. Why? It just doesn't make sense...

God, I pray that I live a life that makes the most of every minute I am blessed with. There is no guarantee on life and although this doesn't make sense and it seems so wrong, I pray that somehow you show how you can bring some sort of good out of a terrible thing. I pray for my students, the family and a miracle.

Happy First Birthday Julia

Julia celebrated her first birthday yesterday. I love being an Aunt!