School: Teaching is going very well. I really do enjoy it. I'm starting to feel that I have control over my life again. I'm finally getting the lesson planning/preparing down. However, I'm starting to have problems with some students. Apparently the "honeymoon stage" is over. Overall it's not bad. There has only been one day so far that I wanted to quit! :) One girl told me today after getting a 100% on her math test that she used to get C's last year in math. She said that I explain it a lot better and she actually understands it. She's getting an A+ in my class. That made me feel good. Times like that make it all worth it, to see a student proud of themself and excited.
Moving: Over Labor Day weekend, Aaron and I spent countless hours painting at
the parsonage to get it ready to move in. This past Saturday we had a church work day. We got a lot accomplished. All the painting and cleaning was finished. I sure appreciated having the women there to help clean because I could not have done it all alone! We have a couple little projects left and two big ones. When they pulled up the nasty, dirty carpet they found fairly nice wood flooring. The church decided to fix up the floors rather than recarpet. That is hopefully going to be done this week so we can move in on Saturday. The other big project is the downstairs bathroom. The original plan was to just replace the shower. Well,
on Saturday it turned into gutting the whole thing and making a brand new bathroom. Needless to say, that will not be completed by Saturday. Since they are putting in all new things Aaron and I thought we might as well take down the wallpaper and put on a fresh coat of paint. So, that bathroom will look fabulous when it's all done!The cat: This past Saturday was also a big day for Lexi. We got her fixed. I dropped her off at the Humane Society that morning and about started crying as I left. I felt so bad leaving her all alone among the howling dog and meowing cats. She didn't even know what was about to hit her. As I was trying to keep from crying and looking like an idiot, the only thing that ran through my mind was, "Man, what am I going to do when I have kids? I'm struggling right now and she's just a cat!" When I went to pick her up she was still kind of out of it and she was acting really weird. I felt so bad for putting her through that. The lady there told me I did the right thing. I'm such a softy when it comes to animals! They told me she had to stay indoors for 24 hours. She didn't mind that! She was living the life!
