Random

It has been a while since I last posted. Getting back to school has made life busy here. I found out I wasn't going to be teaching my AP class and things got busy after that. I had classes to prep for that I hadn't had before.

L left for college... she is in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M. She is having a tough time, but she is doing well. She loves the band. Something we knew she would like. We took her up there on the 19th to check in and then we went back up a week later to see the whole unit during their step off and to have dinner with her.

We haven't been able to make it to an actual game, but I search for the half time show performance on You tube every Sunday morning.

Life is different without L here. We adjusted pretty quickly when R and M left last year. They were already in and out a lot due to school, sports, jobs, and girlfriends. L was different. Being younger she was a little less mature and hung around home a lot more. We were more dependent on her being here than we realized. We could leave the house and have a quick dinner together without worrying much. We could head into town to go shopping. We were able to talk to her.

I am proud of the path she has chosen, but I do miss her.

On your mark.... get ready....

GO!

Another week begins for me in about 8 hours. I will again walk into a classroom that I do not feel completely comfortable in, with students whose names I am still learning, and in a school that I am not so sure I belong in.

I have had a nice quiet weekend despite what this next week brings and what came about last week. I will start the new week with a postivie outlook. I will mail home letters to parents of students who are miserably failing my class due to their lack of work ethic asking for their assistance in turning their child's current situation around. I do not know ow many of them I will get an actual response from..... but I will try. That is all I can really do, right? Try.