So, almost a year using this blog, we have learned that I'm TERRIBLE at updating this sucker.
Matt has successfully completed his first year of teaching. It was a year of ups and downs and many frustrations. But he did it!! He had MANY trials, but one of his students told him how much Latin means to him, so Matt feels the year was successful. In the beginning of May, we did face a very stressful situation when it came to the job. Matt got the dreaded, "I'm sorry, but you have not been chosen to come back," letters. When he was handed the letter, his principal reassured him that it wasn't permanent, and that he would be coming back. And he is! He'll be teaching AP World History in addition to his Latin classes, but he'll be coming back! At the end of this month, he'll be attending an AP conference in Orlando, so that will be fun for him to be able to learn and see what he wants to do with that class.
I have successfully ended my year. It was a VERY stressful spring, where-in my kid really tried my patience. But when all is said and done, I really loved my kids this year, all eight of them, and I'm really going to miss them once the year is over. I'm going to be starting a new path next year. I'm going to be staying home, and focusing on things that need done around here. I felt the cleaning and cooking really fell to the weigh side with us both working, and in reality we can live off of Matt's salary, so I'm going to focus on taking care of him and our home. I'm also going to focus on my writing, but that idea is still in the process of being thought out, so stay tuned.
In the spring, my family came and visited. We gave them the tourist treatment, and then we became tourists ourselves and traveled to Orlando and did the Universal theme parks. It was a lot of fun and it was great to see everyone.
We're planning an epic road trip this summer, where we're literally going to hit both coasts and a bunch in between. We're going to see my family in California, Matt's family in Iowa, and then hit Virginia to visit some friends. And in between we're going to see caves, aliens, buffalo, a crazy house, a cracked bell and a mountain with faces in it. It's all going to be very exciting and fun.
Now that I'm going to be home full time, I promise to be better at updating this thing!! Until then, DFTBA!
