School's (almost) Out!

Today was "Move Up Day."

You may be asking...

What is Move Up Day?

Well...it's the day at the very end of the school year when all of the students go to the classroom of their new teacher for the next year and spend the last hour of the day with them.

This day is always bittersweet.

I get so excited to meet my new class and they always turn out to be so cute and so sweet, but they are still new.

Of course, my current students are totally excited to meet their new teacher, but they try not to talk about it too much because they know it makes me sad. They are so sweet.

So...after hugging each one of my students and telling them "You are still mine for FOUR MORE DAYS!!!"  I send them to grow up and move up to being introduced to sixth grade life*.

*(Please be aware that sixth grade life is in NO way as awesome as fifth grade life.) Just saying.

I never want to give away my students. 

 I spend more time with them in a week than their parents do

and I truly know each of them.

We laugh together, we cry together, I scold them, I mold them.

I cried on the last day of school of my first year. (Like a baby!)

Last year, I was so sad, but no tears.

I don't know about this year...

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It could be a waterfall.

The silver lining...SUMMER!!!!!

P.S. Thank you to anyone who voted YES on Prop 100!

Birthdays, Scrabble and Cars!

Whoa.

Things have been busy!

I turned 25.

I guess it wasn't so bad...well...

It wasn't quite easy to turn 25, but i'm totally over it now!

Bowling was terrific.

Josh got me a really awesome Onyx Edition of Scrabble!

The most amazing part is that Josh and I played a game where we used EVERY SINGLE TILE!!!!

That's right!

No letters we couldn't use and everything made a legit word!!

What are the odds of being able to do that?

Usually there is an X or a Q or something that you can't use at the end...but not for that game!

Unbelievable!

(I was wicked excited!)

Alright...moving on...

Remember how I have not had A/C in my car for the last three years? That's right. I had no A/C and my drive is 40 minutes ONE WAY every day. 

I was very patient and it paid off...

WOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a 2010 Nissan Altima with ten miles on it!

I love it.

You may also remember how I said I would cry and it would kill me to have to get rid of my car?

Well, I did cry. Just a little bit.

I'm a little sentimental.

But look how much bigger my new car (right)

is than my old car (left)!

Nope, it's not just the angle. It's really that much bigger!

So...things have been pretty much great.

We will be very poor now that I have such an amazing car,

but, oh well!

Totally worth it!

I guess 25 isn't so bad...