If someone tries to judge you based on what you make...

I wanted to share this video because it has just been one of those extremely trying weeks at school... one of my college friends posted this video and it truly made me realize what I do and why I do what I do.... the video is three minutes long and uses a few not so nice words, but I fell in love with this video and absolutely can relate to the message that he is trying to get across!!! So next time someone "dogs" teachers (something my kids would say) I will use this guy's line... pretty powerful message if you ask me!!!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU&feature=player_embedded


Love you all!

i promise it is the small things...

This week has gone by very fast and of course the weekend goes by even faster. i have been reminded this week that it is the small things that really make me truly HAPPY. In the past I had a parent conference, a two hour training, worked two 11 hour days, and tutored a WHOPPING 26 kids (when i make a promise to my kids at the beginning of the year that they won't fail... i truly mean it. Also people tell me that you can't save every child... i disagree I work extremely hard to "SAVE" everyone of mine) Anyways... i also taught three cheer classes (and today's was rough with rolling eyes, mean faces, and hurtful words to one another.. All that being said, i am a bit tired. i sometimes feel that i am on a never ending treadmill, and i can't get off. ps. i wish i REALLY felt that way when i was really on a treadmill... i have not problem stopping after a few miles! but... it is like there is always something to WORRY about or WONDER about. My mind and body are both already tired, but when i get ready to start to cry or maybe even want to give up i think of all the SWEET things that go on in my life and everyday at my job.

Here are some small but SWEET things made me happy through this tiring week:

1. Nee went 4 for 6 this weekend and bounced two balls of the wall.
2. Annie Marshall's midnight talk
3. Being able to dance like a maniac in the middle of the dance floor completely sober and not caring who was watching
4. Yelling "I am bullet Proof" and my neighbors being able to hear me (we might get kicked out but i dont care)
5. Getting to JACKET alllll dayyyyy long!!! 70 is cold to me... i am anemic!
6. Listening to WEEZZZY Baby with Reed (maybe not the most appropriate music, but i love our convo's about music...we are def. the smart ones of the fam)
7. Dinner with my dad this afternoon!
8. Sweet notes from my kiddos (they even still fold them the way i used to when i was in middle school)
9. Sunday trips to my favorit store in the world TARGET!!!!!!!

xoxo

JC

Cake Balls, Pink Rainbows, Comped Bar Tabs, and HEE HAAASS

Well I can't believe we are already 1 week away from pay day... this means that October is almost here (my favorite month of the year) I believe this October is going to be sweetness!
1. It is my bday month (even though my bash this year will be in November and will be much better than last years bday which was pure HELL... good TIMES)
2. Competition season starts
3. Halloween
4. STATE FAIR
5. first 6 weeks of school is almost over
6. bowie ballerz-is going to win lots in fantasy football
7. lets all pray the cowboys will have a better month too


My principle asked me this week when i was going to start grad school... funny he asked because I have been looking at different grad school programs. I signed up to take my GRE too! I have been thinking that maybe next fall i will start a grad school program that is not in the DFDUB... maybe go back to college station, Texas, or for some reason i think living in Florida or the mountains for a year would be pretty awesome! I sorta want to take a year off from teaching and just focus on grad school and get it over with. I am not sure if this would ever happen, but what do i have holding me back? I might even follow Nee to her school jkjk! I just think it would be fun to get a way for a year. I am not sure if i could give up teaching for a year but it could happen. maybe it could be my livin on the edge part of my life for a year or my almost quarter life crisis... i dont know!!!

This weekend was one of the BEST
1. cake balls...who buys 10 dollars worth of cake balls... MANDI! lol they were yummy but i mean really
1. Pink rainbows- this is the only wine i remember tasting at the wine tasting dont ask me whyyy
2. comped bar tab- well that is a long story
3. heee haassss- made me almost pee in my pants because i was laughing so hard!!!

love you all

JC

the cards you have been dealt with

I often tell my kids @ school or at the gym that "these are the cards you have been dealt with.... so DEAL with it" I always tell them that I don't really care to hear their sob stories because believe it or not we all have them. Some worse than others but that is just life... I try to make them strong and let them know that just because you have a daddy in jail, a mom that works two jobs, or you have been deeply hurt does not mean you can't give a 100 percent and do you best everyday... So this past week I have been dealt with

1. missing my sister a lot. I hate not having her here. I hate not seeing her play ball every week... i hate it
2. my car getting broken into then being late to school and for once all my tutoring kiddos show up, and I am not there...
3. having to wait in line 2.5 hrs at the DPS with some not so nice people
4. having to rely on my parents to get money out for me because my debit card was stolen
5. a good friend hurting my feelings
6. driving down 75 with one of my sweeeet friends throwing up out my window and trying to communicate with me but couldn't i felt horrible but could't stop
7. meeting someone during duty telling me she lost her mother 2 months ago, moved to irving and is now living with her dad who has 9 children and had only met her dad a few tmes.
8. immature parents @ they gym (yes I SAID it... it is time to grow up or find a new team!!!)
9. being single for about a year now and just realizing that life does keep moving on... i always wonder why God puts someone in our lives just to take them out


It has been a rough week and weekend for me. I usually NEVER EVER have bad weeks much less tough weekends. Sometimes I guess we have t have tough weekends to re-evaluate our lives. I am usually happy upbeat and try not to let anything bother me. I guess I always just deal with what I have been dealt with.... but sometimes we break. Maybe I shouldn't be so tough on my kids allll the time. Maybe they need a melt down once in a while. I can say that through the week and weekend... i have a huge support system. My sweet close friends and family are always there. Whether its to make me laugh, cry with me, send me weird funny videos, invite me to eat with them, or clean up throw up off my car while I am sleeping... you all are truly amazing! Thank you for shaping and making me who I am today

But She is Just Like a Maze

You would think @ 23 years old that I would have maybe figured out what I want in life or better yet who I really am... but it has yet to happen. Sometimes I am in total shock of the things i do... i mean REALLY!! I used to be embarrassed to say that I quite haven't figured all that out yet, but lately I have come to the conclusion that it really doesn't matter. Like it really is okay to roll into school blaring My Dougie or Lil Wayne... Or my fav... singing America the beautiful so loud that the neighbors can hear me and thinking that it is fruited grains instead of plains! OR... wearing Christmas shirts to cheer practice and Cheri making fun of me ps. It was rough night and morning) So rough I almost threw up during FLIGHT SCHOOL anyways... I mean who said life had to be so serious allll the time! Don't get me wrong we all need structure, but I have finally realized that CRAP does happen... and it will be okay!!! Life is to short not to enjoy it... I am okay with being like a "Maze" right now, and I really not concerned with what others have to say about who I am :)




Anyways... I totally survived the first week of school with 6th graders!!!! I hate to say this but they are precious (and yes i have already knocked on wood) I did take several naps after I got home but it is all good... I miss my Lamar friends, but I truly love the people at Bowie. So many times I get this weird look about switching schools, but I truly feel blessed to be working where so many people love the kids!

I also finished my first draft today... football will have a whole new meaning in my life this year. I won't be able to just watch the cboysssss!


loveeee you!

We Will Win

Well....

I have my black polo washed (well sorta... its in the washer now), my khaki skirt ironed, and my tory burch's ready to go!!! I have probably worked more than 20 hours on my new room, and I have spent the last two hours trying to find a motivational clip and the perfect song for my lesson tomorrow. i found a clip a football one of course!! I am still trying to decided on a song... and I HAVE to have a song... because my first day won't be complete with out MUSIC!!!My motto this year for my students and myself is WE WILL WIN! (Yes this is the same motto that Mac used when they used to be horrible at football and then all of a sudden had a winning season.) but... I think this is a pretty sweeeeet motto for my students and me.

I sometimes wonder why in the WORLD do I put so much time, money and effort in to teaching. I mean I could really do anything I WANT with my life and I chose to teach... I have already had a break down, dug into my savings for some school stuff, dripped with sweat working in my room, dodged roaches and crickets, fell of a table, and I have even cried (surprise surprise). The worst part is I have yet to even see kids! Then I remember all the sweet emails, sweet notes, laughs,HUGS, and SMILES that come with my job. (plus i get a TON of holidays off) haaa! After watching a 10000 clips and listening to a 10000 songs for tomorrow, I realize that I have one of the BEST jobs in the world. I get to make a difference in a kid's life that might not have a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister, or a friend. I can't wait to see what is in store for me this year.

soo BRING on my 6 graders and the 2010-2011 school year


love you all!!!

Grilled Cheese with pickles and Arbor Mist

So... Sunday night around 10 i decided to look @ my calendar on my phone. I then noticed that I had training the next morning! Needless to say I FREAKED! I don't do laundry because 1. because my mom always did it for me so we will blame her and 2. I have this sweeet habit called shopping, and when I need something to wear i just go find something. So I had to do a load of laundry because I was not going to buy anything @ walmart (the only place open) target closes @ 9 on Sundays ya knowww! So not only did i go in to panic mode about clothes... I also decided that @ 10 that it was probably a good time to start cleaning my room since summer was over, and I really hadn't cleaned much this summer. Mandi helped... shes a pretty good LP! We got a bag of trash out of my room (SICK) ps. i really shouldn't admit that there is a bag of trash in my room but.... there was! My room and bathroom got cleaned in about an hr.... I even straighted up all my shoes in my closet!!!!I am crazzyyy i know!!!

So I am back in school mode... almost! I have still continued with my daily naps! Getting up at six is HORRIBLE, and I wouldn't be pleasant with out a nap! I really don't have a choice to nap because our cable won't work right. It freaking freezes up. It all started during shark week. I was already pissed off at shark week but that is a whole 'nother blog! Anyways..I have ripped the box out of the wall once and thrown many objects at it. The customer care center is over seas and they don't understand me. So mandi and I sit in our "girl cave" or club 621 and either have the option of staring at each other, reading, dancing, cart wheels, back bend kick over look a likes, go nina, or napping.... 9 times out of 10 we usually end up falling asleep or playing nina.


Well it is off to make grilled cheese with pickles and drink arbor mist... i know I am one CLASSY girl :)


love you

JC