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Saturday, November 24, 2007
last year at this time
last year at this time, there were three things that i wanted: a digital camera, an ipod, and a laptop. it's last year at this time that our story begins...
last year at this time, i wanted a digital camera. thanks to christmas money from my uncle noe and my parents, i bought a digital camera. i love it, love it, love it. i take pictures all the time now. trust me, i just finished transferring about 100 pictures of roddick. i'm not even kidding.
so two out three isn't bad, right? right, until now...
I GOT A LAPTOP!!!! yes, faithful blog readers, i received an early graduation present from my parents this morning at the crack of dawn (11 am-same thing). this is my absolute favorite gift of all. i love it, love it, love it. like i said earlier, i spent lots of time transferring the tons of pictures from my memory card to my laptop. i don't think this grin is coming off my face any time soon! i'm just so excited to have this laptop, and think about it-i can now blog to my heart's content! i think i'm going to be on this thing all the time. i'm not even kidding.
so thank you, mom and day, for my amazing present! my blog readers thank you too =)
i love you!
last year at this time, i wanted a digital camera. thanks to christmas money from my uncle noe and my parents, i bought a digital camera. i love it, love it, love it. i take pictures all the time now. trust me, i just finished transferring about 100 pictures of roddick. i'm not even kidding.
do you like this random picture? kelli says they look alike!
last year at this time, i wanted an ipod. i still don't have an ipod, but i do have an mp3 player. i got it because of the hard bargaining skills of my dad and one of joey's classmates.i love it, love it, love it. again, i listen to it all the time. forget the radio, i plug in my mp3 player every single time i get in the car. yesterday on the way home from la grange, i listened to christmas music. i have to change out the battery every few days because yes, i listen to it that much. i'm not even kidding.so two out three isn't bad, right? right, until now...
I GOT A LAPTOP!!!! yes, faithful blog readers, i received an early graduation present from my parents this morning at the crack of dawn (11 am-same thing). this is my absolute favorite gift of all. i love it, love it, love it. like i said earlier, i spent lots of time transferring the tons of pictures from my memory card to my laptop. i don't think this grin is coming off my face any time soon! i'm just so excited to have this laptop, and think about it-i can now blog to my heart's content! i think i'm going to be on this thing all the time. i'm not even kidding.
so thank you, mom and day, for my amazing present! my blog readers thank you too =)
i love you!
Thursday, November 22, 2007
happy turkey day!
yay, it's thanksgiving! i love thanksgiving because 1) it gives me a great excuse to stuff myself and 2) i'm reminded of all things God has blessed me with.
my first blessing is my family. there's a movie where the girl is telling the guy, "you know that family where is everyone is out of their mind but at the end of the day they're still your family and you love them? that's not my family." i laughed hard when i first heard that, but it's so not true. well, half of it isn't anyway! i love my family. you put all of us together and it will take approximately five seconds for us to start getting on each other's nerves, but we still love each other. we pray for each other, defend each other, and help each other out. there's nothing i couldn't do without my family.
then, naturally, there are my friends. i know everyone says this, but i think i have the best friends anyone could ask for. these are the people who make me a better person just by being around them. they are godly, strong, and overall great friends. they are the ones who pray for me and call to check on me. today i got text messages from some of them just to say happy thanksgiving. i think that choosing to go to ch. 1 back in august of '04 was one of the best decisions i've ever made. i love them and thank God for them.
my home church is pretty awesome. we aren't perfect, but we're so darn close! they honored us last week for pastor appreciation day (more on that later), but they never had to do that. we are blessed to be their pastors. i look forward to every time we meet because everyone is so encouraging. thank you, God, for solid rock church and all of those wonderful people.
school had been so hard but so worth it for me. i feel as though God has really blessed me in this area. i got a great school to student teach at, two wonderful and positive cooperating teachers, and an encouraging supervisor. it hasn't been a piece of cake, but i can feel God literally giving me strength as i walk through the doors every morning (at 7 am! this is so not right...). student teaching has been such a huge blessing to me in so many ways, and there is no way i could explain it well on a blog right now. and speaking of student teaching...
I'M GRADUATING NEXT MONTH! i spent part of this evening putting my invitations together and starting to address them (i need your address-you know who you are). as i was folding them and putting them in envelopes, i was reminded of my freshman year as a music major. and as i think of my college career, there is a common threa in all of them: God's faithfulness.
and really, isn't that what this is all about? God has been so faithful to me that i still can't completely comprehend it. but i'm grateful. i'm grateful that He chose to send His son to die for my sins so that i could have a relationship with Him. wow...
thank you, Jesus, for everything you've done for me. thank you for my family, my friends, my church, and my education. your goodness and faithfulness overwhelm me. i love you.
my first blessing is my family. there's a movie where the girl is telling the guy, "you know that family where is everyone is out of their mind but at the end of the day they're still your family and you love them? that's not my family." i laughed hard when i first heard that, but it's so not true. well, half of it isn't anyway! i love my family. you put all of us together and it will take approximately five seconds for us to start getting on each other's nerves, but we still love each other. we pray for each other, defend each other, and help each other out. there's nothing i couldn't do without my family.
then, naturally, there are my friends. i know everyone says this, but i think i have the best friends anyone could ask for. these are the people who make me a better person just by being around them. they are godly, strong, and overall great friends. they are the ones who pray for me and call to check on me. today i got text messages from some of them just to say happy thanksgiving. i think that choosing to go to ch. 1 back in august of '04 was one of the best decisions i've ever made. i love them and thank God for them.
my home church is pretty awesome. we aren't perfect, but we're so darn close! they honored us last week for pastor appreciation day (more on that later), but they never had to do that. we are blessed to be their pastors. i look forward to every time we meet because everyone is so encouraging. thank you, God, for solid rock church and all of those wonderful people.
school had been so hard but so worth it for me. i feel as though God has really blessed me in this area. i got a great school to student teach at, two wonderful and positive cooperating teachers, and an encouraging supervisor. it hasn't been a piece of cake, but i can feel God literally giving me strength as i walk through the doors every morning (at 7 am! this is so not right...). student teaching has been such a huge blessing to me in so many ways, and there is no way i could explain it well on a blog right now. and speaking of student teaching...
I'M GRADUATING NEXT MONTH! i spent part of this evening putting my invitations together and starting to address them (i need your address-you know who you are). as i was folding them and putting them in envelopes, i was reminded of my freshman year as a music major. and as i think of my college career, there is a common threa in all of them: God's faithfulness.
and really, isn't that what this is all about? God has been so faithful to me that i still can't completely comprehend it. but i'm grateful. i'm grateful that He chose to send His son to die for my sins so that i could have a relationship with Him. wow...
thank you, Jesus, for everything you've done for me. thank you for my family, my friends, my church, and my education. your goodness and faithfulness overwhelm me. i love you.
Friday, November 16, 2007
today
today was the craziest day of school that i've had so far-and i've had some pretty crazy ones.
my teacher has been at a conference the past three days, so i've had the class to myself (love it, love it, love it). i mean, i really like my teacher. but i really, really like being the only one in charge. well, next to the sub. anyway, today we had a turkey lunch with all the fixins'. IT WAS WONDERFUL! of course, i'm happy to eat anything except sandwiches, but it was definitely great. since every student's family is invited, this thing is huge. super huge. like 1,000 people. and because the parents were there, they just took their kids home with them. i had 9 left by the end of the day. 9 out of 21. those 9 played on the computer or played other games for 1 1/2 hours before they went home.
nice.
and now, i get a whole week off. and when we go back,
ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS!
i think i'll go celebrate with a dr. pepper...
my teacher has been at a conference the past three days, so i've had the class to myself (love it, love it, love it). i mean, i really like my teacher. but i really, really like being the only one in charge. well, next to the sub. anyway, today we had a turkey lunch with all the fixins'. IT WAS WONDERFUL! of course, i'm happy to eat anything except sandwiches, but it was definitely great. since every student's family is invited, this thing is huge. super huge. like 1,000 people. and because the parents were there, they just took their kids home with them. i had 9 left by the end of the day. 9 out of 21. those 9 played on the computer or played other games for 1 1/2 hours before they went home.
nice.
and now, i get a whole week off. and when we go back,
ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS!
i think i'll go celebrate with a dr. pepper...
hair
i have an autistic boy in my room. i had seen him around the school before i started in 4th grade, but didn't know he would be in my 4th grade room. at first i was really nervous, but it's proved to be a great experience. he's extremeley bright, enough to know what is appropriate and inappropriate at school. so when he says or does something just to get a reaction, i just look the other way. but what i love is how the rest of the class takes care of him. they don't want him getting in trouble. they always make sure he has his books and other things he needs for school.
as he walked into the classroom yesterday morning, one of the girls went up to him and said, "hey, did you get a haircut?" his response was,
"no, i washed it."
her eyes wide, she looked at me and whispered, "has he really not been washing his hair this whole time?"
"don't worry-he has" i whispered back.
and then i went to my desk and laughed. hard.
i just love that boy.
as he walked into the classroom yesterday morning, one of the girls went up to him and said, "hey, did you get a haircut?" his response was,
"no, i washed it."
her eyes wide, she looked at me and whispered, "has he really not been washing his hair this whole time?"
"don't worry-he has" i whispered back.
and then i went to my desk and laughed. hard.
i just love that boy.
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