Well, I finally broke down and decided to update my blog. My life is really mundane (which I completely DO NOT mind!), so I don't have anything spectacular to blog about most days. I could tell you lots of Callie stories that are so cute and funny, but I'd rather spend time with her than take time to type them! :)
My student teacher is doing pretty well so far. It's so funny that I didn't realize all of the things I do and say that he doesn't just do. I know I've learned some things in the past couple of years while I've been teaching, but I just took for granted that I already knew those things. So, I am able to guide him and instruct him more than I thought I would be able to. He's coming around too. I'm trying not to make him just like me, but I try to get him to think about the way I would do certain things. Here lately, he will say things like, "yeah, that's what I was thinking." So, that's a good sign. We are starting to think alike, which means he's growing as a teacher and beginning to think more like a teacher.
The kids are warming up to him too. They pouted and looked at me with sad faces for a while when he first started, but they are learning to like him too. I can't say it didn't make me feel SO loved that they preferred me, but I'm sure by the time he gets ready to leave, they will be giving HIM the pouty face! That's okay. I can handle it. He will start teaching ALL of my classes next week for 4 weeks. What in the world will I do all day?!?!?! :) (woohoo! break for me!)
Well, I'm off to visit with Andy. Basketball season is finally over (I can hear the angels singing Hallelujah in the background...). I think I may have my husband back for a while, that is, until church softball starts up and the Braves. Then it's college football, then basketball.......sigh. :)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Updates = More readers?
A little bird has informed me that frequent updates = more frequent readers. So, maybe I should attempt to be a more consistent updater? Sounds good. I'll give it a try.
Wow, today was well, different. We were supposed to allow our kids at the school the opportunity to watch the inauguration. I complied, but I must admit, not all of the kids were thrilled about this once in a lifetime, historical opportunity. Some tried to have discussions (irrelevant mind you) during the entire viewing. Some slept, and others just watched. Some of my kids openly said they didn't want to watch it, and it was depressing.
I tried not to show them my feelings were mutual, but I must admit, good DID come out of the situation. It must've been divinely ordained that we were told to cue our TVs to the inauguration via Dr. Gibbs, and VERY shortly thereafter, Rick Warren appears, prays what I would call a great prayer, and prays in the name of the "man who changed my life...JESUS!" It was GREAT! I thought to myself of how prayer has been taken out of schools and people want God out of everything, but we still are allowed to pray at the Presidential Inauguration in Jesus' name AND PRAISE GOD, it gets aired all over the entire campus of Johnson High School!?!?!?!?
I could've shouted right in my room when I heard him pray in Jesus name. God bless Rick Warren for not bowing down to all of the protests and for specifically mentioning that his prayer was intended to be heard by the one true and living GOD! I was so happy about that part if nothing else. I told one of my coworkers that if nothing else good came out of the entire situation, that my kids were allowed to hear that prayer. Maybe it caused them to think about WHY he prayed the way he did, and could they possibly be wondering why he said "THE MAN WHO CHANGED MY LIFE????" What an awesome way to get some inquiring minds thinking. Maybe they wonder what he meant by that. I'm sure the Holy Spirit could've stirred someone's heart over that statement, and I pray that happened.
Anyway, yes, Barack Hussein(cringe) Obama is now our President. Like Ray (my Sunday School teacher) says, God has allowed him to be President for a reason. It's all part of his plan. Also, even though I may not agree with Obama on the issues that matter, it's my job to be praying for him anyway. Wouldn't it be great for revival to break out in the White House? Hey, God can make it happen!
So, let's all pray for Obama. I don't see how it could hurt. Jesus wouldn't condone Obama's probable actions on abortion, immigration, the economy, and marriage I'm sure, but God still loves Obama just as much as He loves me. Wow... ponder that for a moment! I think I just had an epiphany with that one. I think I'll let that soak in over the next few days while all of the hype dies down over this inauguration.
In the mean time, I hope your week is great. Please pray for me. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do next year as far as working. I would love to go part-time or just stay at home, but I still haven't been given a clear answer on what to do. On paper, it seems like it would work for me to stay at home, but I'm not sure that's what God wants me to do. So, just pray for me. I know that He will not lead me in the wrong path, but I just want to make sure I hear His direction for my life clearly! :)
Love, BB
Wow, today was well, different. We were supposed to allow our kids at the school the opportunity to watch the inauguration. I complied, but I must admit, not all of the kids were thrilled about this once in a lifetime, historical opportunity. Some tried to have discussions (irrelevant mind you) during the entire viewing. Some slept, and others just watched. Some of my kids openly said they didn't want to watch it, and it was depressing.
I tried not to show them my feelings were mutual, but I must admit, good DID come out of the situation. It must've been divinely ordained that we were told to cue our TVs to the inauguration via Dr. Gibbs, and VERY shortly thereafter, Rick Warren appears, prays what I would call a great prayer, and prays in the name of the "man who changed my life...JESUS!" It was GREAT! I thought to myself of how prayer has been taken out of schools and people want God out of everything, but we still are allowed to pray at the Presidential Inauguration in Jesus' name AND PRAISE GOD, it gets aired all over the entire campus of Johnson High School!?!?!?!?
I could've shouted right in my room when I heard him pray in Jesus name. God bless Rick Warren for not bowing down to all of the protests and for specifically mentioning that his prayer was intended to be heard by the one true and living GOD! I was so happy about that part if nothing else. I told one of my coworkers that if nothing else good came out of the entire situation, that my kids were allowed to hear that prayer. Maybe it caused them to think about WHY he prayed the way he did, and could they possibly be wondering why he said "THE MAN WHO CHANGED MY LIFE????" What an awesome way to get some inquiring minds thinking. Maybe they wonder what he meant by that. I'm sure the Holy Spirit could've stirred someone's heart over that statement, and I pray that happened.
Anyway, yes, Barack Hussein(cringe) Obama is now our President. Like Ray (my Sunday School teacher) says, God has allowed him to be President for a reason. It's all part of his plan. Also, even though I may not agree with Obama on the issues that matter, it's my job to be praying for him anyway. Wouldn't it be great for revival to break out in the White House? Hey, God can make it happen!
So, let's all pray for Obama. I don't see how it could hurt. Jesus wouldn't condone Obama's probable actions on abortion, immigration, the economy, and marriage I'm sure, but God still loves Obama just as much as He loves me. Wow... ponder that for a moment! I think I just had an epiphany with that one. I think I'll let that soak in over the next few days while all of the hype dies down over this inauguration.
In the mean time, I hope your week is great. Please pray for me. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do next year as far as working. I would love to go part-time or just stay at home, but I still haven't been given a clear answer on what to do. On paper, it seems like it would work for me to stay at home, but I'm not sure that's what God wants me to do. So, just pray for me. I know that He will not lead me in the wrong path, but I just want to make sure I hear His direction for my life clearly! :)
Love, BB
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Howdy
I hope that everyone has had a great last week and your new year is off to a great start.
Things at school are getting back to routine after having been out for 2 weeks. We are beginning to get back into our morning routine here at home too. It's weird how you really dread getting up early, doing the same things every day, but then when it gets messed up for a while, you long for that routine or some sort of routine in your life. I guess that's the teacher part in me coming out. We are routine creatures of habit, at least most of us anyway.
I have been terrible about updating this blog mainly because I think it's more therapeutic than widely read. It gives me something to do when I don't want to do something I need to do or I have a lull in my chores around home or school work.
Speaking of which, I just remembered I have a big stack of Geometry tests that need to be graded. Yuck.... Grading is not fun most of the time for me! I'm getting lazy since my student teacher is doing some of the grading already so he won't be bored to tears. He actually gets started teaching a class this upcoming week. I will hand over the reins and let him have at it. There's no better preparation than just getting into a classroom and trying it out. It's scary at first, takes lots of practice to get better at it (by the way, I AM still practicing myself!!!!!), and lots of patience that only God above can give to you, but it's a great job. It's rewarding (yes, even high school kids can make your day) and it's exhausting, but I can't imagine myself doing anything else. I have never imagined myself being anything other than a teacher, until I was a mother. Now I'm beginning to contemplate if I can be teacher AND mommy and do a good job at both. THAT, my friend, is an entirely different post!!! Maybe, I will post about it in the near future.
Anyway, I felt bad when I saw that everyone had updated recently and I just kept putting my blog off. So, my blog therapy will conclude with this short paragraph. Maybe it wasn't too boring!!! :)
Have a great weekend and week! Love!
Things at school are getting back to routine after having been out for 2 weeks. We are beginning to get back into our morning routine here at home too. It's weird how you really dread getting up early, doing the same things every day, but then when it gets messed up for a while, you long for that routine or some sort of routine in your life. I guess that's the teacher part in me coming out. We are routine creatures of habit, at least most of us anyway.
I have been terrible about updating this blog mainly because I think it's more therapeutic than widely read. It gives me something to do when I don't want to do something I need to do or I have a lull in my chores around home or school work.
Speaking of which, I just remembered I have a big stack of Geometry tests that need to be graded. Yuck.... Grading is not fun most of the time for me! I'm getting lazy since my student teacher is doing some of the grading already so he won't be bored to tears. He actually gets started teaching a class this upcoming week. I will hand over the reins and let him have at it. There's no better preparation than just getting into a classroom and trying it out. It's scary at first, takes lots of practice to get better at it (by the way, I AM still practicing myself!!!!!), and lots of patience that only God above can give to you, but it's a great job. It's rewarding (yes, even high school kids can make your day) and it's exhausting, but I can't imagine myself doing anything else. I have never imagined myself being anything other than a teacher, until I was a mother. Now I'm beginning to contemplate if I can be teacher AND mommy and do a good job at both. THAT, my friend, is an entirely different post!!! Maybe, I will post about it in the near future.
Anyway, I felt bad when I saw that everyone had updated recently and I just kept putting my blog off. So, my blog therapy will conclude with this short paragraph. Maybe it wasn't too boring!!! :)
Have a great weekend and week! Love!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Christmas Break - It will soon be gone!
We had a great Christmas!! It was stressful (Christmas day was), but other than that, we had a great time. I had to pray all day pretty much to keep myself from going ballistic at times. It's hard for me to relax when my child is tired, she won't eat, she hasn't had a nap, people want to visit with you, and you would rather be at home, BUT it turned out not be as bad as I thought it would be. We acquired many new and exciting gadgets and gifts. Andy is most proud of his GPS unit that I got for him. It got it at a serious deal the day after Thanksgiving at Target! It wasn't really all that expensive compared to what it normally is.
I have been soaking in every minute with Callie these last two weeks. She's been the sweetest most loving thing ever! She'll just raise her arms up to me and say mama, and then when I pick up her she will hug me SO tight around the neck! It is the sweetest thing! She'll even say "love you" after I say it to her sometimes. It is precious. She's been entertaining me and keeping me busy around the house cleaning up after her too. :)
We had our traditional New Year collards and cornbread today. We opted out of the black-eyed peas because I'm not to fond of them, and plus I already made a crockpot full of pinto beans this week! Anyway, the collards and cornbread were WONDERFUL! I would dare say that it was one of the best pawns of cornbread I ever made and the best collards I have ever made. Of course, they cooked almost all day yesterday and last night, so all of that TLC better be evident in how they taste! :)
I have been cooking a lot this week with the crock pot and cooking a lot in general. It's not been too bad since I have an on-site designated dishwasher to help out! Andy's been washing dishes, and it's been so nice. He's done well too!
Well, I better get something done that's productive around the house. I need to work on some, dare I say it, school (cringe) stuff!
FYI - I will have a student teacher this semester. I hope and pray he's a good one! Pray for me as I attempt to "show" him how I do it, and maybe help him to somehow miraculously transform into a good teacher? Don't ask me how that's going to happen! I feel really unqualified to be mentoring someone else in my profession since I am NO WHERE NEAR where I wish I was, but God has put this little teacher-to-be in my life for some reason! I just hope his experience is as great as mine was! I had a good student-teaching experience, unlike all of the horror stories everyone told me!
Have a great day and a VERY Happy New Year!
Love!
I have been soaking in every minute with Callie these last two weeks. She's been the sweetest most loving thing ever! She'll just raise her arms up to me and say mama, and then when I pick up her she will hug me SO tight around the neck! It is the sweetest thing! She'll even say "love you" after I say it to her sometimes. It is precious. She's been entertaining me and keeping me busy around the house cleaning up after her too. :)
We had our traditional New Year collards and cornbread today. We opted out of the black-eyed peas because I'm not to fond of them, and plus I already made a crockpot full of pinto beans this week! Anyway, the collards and cornbread were WONDERFUL! I would dare say that it was one of the best pawns of cornbread I ever made and the best collards I have ever made. Of course, they cooked almost all day yesterday and last night, so all of that TLC better be evident in how they taste! :)
I have been cooking a lot this week with the crock pot and cooking a lot in general. It's not been too bad since I have an on-site designated dishwasher to help out! Andy's been washing dishes, and it's been so nice. He's done well too!
Well, I better get something done that's productive around the house. I need to work on some, dare I say it, school (cringe) stuff!
FYI - I will have a student teacher this semester. I hope and pray he's a good one! Pray for me as I attempt to "show" him how I do it, and maybe help him to somehow miraculously transform into a good teacher? Don't ask me how that's going to happen! I feel really unqualified to be mentoring someone else in my profession since I am NO WHERE NEAR where I wish I was, but God has put this little teacher-to-be in my life for some reason! I just hope his experience is as great as mine was! I had a good student-teaching experience, unlike all of the horror stories everyone told me!
Have a great day and a VERY Happy New Year!
Love!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Christmas Time's a Comin'!
While I have obviously NOT been updating my blog, I've been getting ready for Christmas. Shopping, decorating, cooking, cleaning (ha!), caroling, and doing various Christmas things at church. It's been very busy around the Brown household with a basketball coach living here, a teacher whose ready to be out for Christmas break, and a now 18-month old sweet little Callie!
Callie is getting so big. She's gone pee pee and poo poo in the potty numerous times, and she is learning something new every day. She never ceases to amaze me, and I feel like I love her more every day - no joke!
I'm so glad we are out for Christmas break! I needed a break from school, and I'm going to try NOT to think about going back until I absolutely have to. The year is already half way over; that's hard to believe, but good too at the same time!
Christmas is just around the corner now, and I believe I'm almost finished with all of my shopping. Andy has a few more things he needs to get, and I think I still need one more thing for my loving brother-in-law, but I haven't gotten around to getting that yet! I am running out of time too!
We are getting ready for an EXTREMELY busy Christmas day as usual. We will kick off our long list of stops on Christmas Eve with a get together at 6:00 with the Brown side of the family. Then, on Christmas day, we celebrate here at home together, then it's off to Moma and Daddy's, down to Maw Maw's for lunch, then over to Flora and Fred's for the afternoon, and finally Andy's parents for that night. It is exhausting, and I hate to say it, but it makes my Christmas so stressful and less enjoyable than I feel it could be with all of the running around we have to do. I'm also preparing for the food I'll take to almost every stop we make. It's hard to think so far in advance to me when it comes to cooking. I'm a good planner in most areas except the food department.
Oh well, I'm trying not to let the busyness of this season stress me out, but I have already truly enjoyed the Christmas season in my heart. The sign at Rock Springs Baptist Church says something to the effect of you haven't celebrated Christmas until you've experienced it in your heart. I hope that this Christmas, God will bless you with that experience and your heart will overflow with joy at the celebration of the birth of our Savior, the one true HOPE of the WORLD!
Merry Christmas
Monday, November 24, 2008
I'm still here
Some of you may think I've gone undercover since my blog hasn't been updated in ages, but I'm still here. I've been busy as usual, and every time I think about updating, I'm either not in the mood, or I don't know what to say. So, I've been avoiding updating for those reasons.
We are all trying to get ready for Thanksgiving around here, and we are gearing up for Christmas too. After walking through the stores with their Christmas decorations every where and since some people I know have already started to decorate around the house, I decided to put up my Christmas tree this past weekend. It took Callie a day or two to realize that she just can't walk up to it and take off ornaments (all plastic) and play with them. As you can expect, she was all excited because there was all this NEW stuff around, and she had never played or messed with it before. She was excited about it.
Also, I bought an 8 foot inflatable snowman last year that is sitting in our yard. It was one of those 1/2 price after Christmas sale deals. Callie LOVES it! She wants to go outside and touch it when it's freezing and dark! He lights up; so you can see him in the dark. It's too cute. It looks like it's waving at you the way his little arms are made to stick out of his body, and she'll just look up at the snowman and wave at him like he's a real person. It's adorable. She is just too cute, and I love seeing things from her perspective. I believe it keeps be grounded and reminds me of some things that I take for granted and some things that I think are so important and get worked up over are really not that important at all.
Tomorrow is my Friday since we are getting out for Thanksgiving break this week! Woohoo! Talk about ready. It's a break that's been long overdue I think!
Well, I have officially updated my blog, and just want you all to know that the way it feels these last couple of days/weeks is how cold it was in Wyoming this past summer when everybody here was having a HEAT WAVE! We were freezing our rear ends off in Yellowstone while everybody was praying for a break here! I've thought about that several times since it's turned cold. I loved that Teton Mountain Range! I believe I could use another summer in Wyoming! This time, I think we need to wait a few more weeks before we go though! Since I've been reminiscing about my Wyoming trip, I'll leave you with some of our vacation pictures below. The climate in the picture looks more appropriate now than it did back in June!
We are all trying to get ready for Thanksgiving around here, and we are gearing up for Christmas too. After walking through the stores with their Christmas decorations every where and since some people I know have already started to decorate around the house, I decided to put up my Christmas tree this past weekend. It took Callie a day or two to realize that she just can't walk up to it and take off ornaments (all plastic) and play with them. As you can expect, she was all excited because there was all this NEW stuff around, and she had never played or messed with it before. She was excited about it.
Also, I bought an 8 foot inflatable snowman last year that is sitting in our yard. It was one of those 1/2 price after Christmas sale deals. Callie LOVES it! She wants to go outside and touch it when it's freezing and dark! He lights up; so you can see him in the dark. It's too cute. It looks like it's waving at you the way his little arms are made to stick out of his body, and she'll just look up at the snowman and wave at him like he's a real person. It's adorable. She is just too cute, and I love seeing things from her perspective. I believe it keeps be grounded and reminds me of some things that I take for granted and some things that I think are so important and get worked up over are really not that important at all.
Tomorrow is my Friday since we are getting out for Thanksgiving break this week! Woohoo! Talk about ready. It's a break that's been long overdue I think!
Well, I have officially updated my blog, and just want you all to know that the way it feels these last couple of days/weeks is how cold it was in Wyoming this past summer when everybody here was having a HEAT WAVE! We were freezing our rear ends off in Yellowstone while everybody was praying for a break here! I've thought about that several times since it's turned cold. I loved that Teton Mountain Range! I believe I could use another summer in Wyoming! This time, I think we need to wait a few more weeks before we go though! Since I've been reminiscing about my Wyoming trip, I'll leave you with some of our vacation pictures below. The climate in the picture looks more appropriate now than it did back in June!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Callie - Definitely a TREAT! not a trick!
Okay, so I must admit Halloween is my LEAST favorite holiday of the entire year. I'm not a fan of trying to be all spooky, scary, and all of that stuff. But we were able to have fun with Callie this Halloween. She was an adorable duck. She liked her costume. She wanted to hug it when it was hanging on the hanger in her room. She had fun getting candy and visiting with our families. We decided to just go and visit a few people. It still ended up taking a total of about 2.5 hours though, including driving time! :)
Enjoy the pictures. Tell me about your Halloween experience!
Enjoy the pictures. Tell me about your Halloween experience!
Much love! 
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