It's alive!

My blog is coming back to life!  I had just started blogging when life took an unexpected twist.  Once I accepted my fate, I actually got excited about going back to the classroom and teaching first grade.  Teaching kind of took over my life for awhile.  At first, I was really excited about buying and making things for my classroom but around January of last year, major fatigue set in.  I was MUCH younger the last time I taught first grade!  Blogging was the last thing on my mind.

Now I've been back in the classroom for 2 years and I am loving it again!  It's summer now and I will again spend way too much time on the computer, following teaching and crafting blogs.  My goal for the next school year is to continue to work on organization.  So much of my stress my first year back came because I couldn't keep up with things.  It seemed like I was always a step behind my teammates.  This year was much better in spite of a really "challenging" group of students.  Next year will be even better, I'm sure!

I'm Back!

I've been kind of depressed for the past few weeks due to some unpleasantness at work.  I'm coming to terms with it now and finally feel like writing again.  I had more dental work done this week- an implant and a sinus augmentation- and my face swelled up so much I could have landed a job in a freak show.  It's better today; I just look a lot like Alvin the Chipmunk!
I've been using retail therapy to deal with my depression!  On a whim, right before all of the stuff happened at school, I ordered a Cricut die cutting machine after watching an informercial during our internet outage period.  I don't even scrapbook but after watching the informercial and seeing that it could cut vinyl and fabric, I researched and ordered one.  It arrived the day Spring Break started (which was also the day I got my bad news at work) so I had a whole week just to play.  But then I had to have vinyl and paper to use in it, more cartridges, design software and various other "necessities"!  Then I felt bad about ignoring my embroidery machine so I bought some more thread and stabilizer and made some lace Easter eggs.  The only thing that didn't cost me money was I pulled out a quilted wallhanging kit I bought about 3 years ago and completed the piecing.  It still needs to be quilted but I added it to the 2 other projects in the "to be quilted" pile!  Too many hobbies and too little time!

I'll try to get some pictures posted of some of my projects and eventually I'll write about what's going on at school.  But that's the update for now!

I can't believe I've let a whole week slip by without writing anything!  I'll blame part of it on the Olympics-I really got caught up in them this time.  The other problem was spotty Internet service.  My husband tried to take care of it Saturday.  He took the router/modem to the phone company Saturday morning.  They assured him all we had to do was plug it in.  Well, after messing with it for an hour (I always end up doing these things) and then spending an hour on the phone with customer service, the frustrated technician finally suggested that the router might be defective and we take it back.  That would have been fine except by then it was 12:30 and the phone company's office closed at noon.  So we had to wait until after work today but finally we have service and it's actually a faster connection.
I was kind of concerned about how hooked on technology I've become- I really missed my computer!  Now, if they would just return our big screen TV life would be good again!

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