Aaahhhh. Summer Begins.

Summer is here! It is all to wonderful to be finished with school for the summer. We had graduation last Saturday, and it was very nice. One of my students gave a speech at graduation and said she wanted to become a science teacher. Her mother pulled me aside afterwords and told me that it was because of me that she wants to become a science teacher. I think that is probably the greatest compliment I have ever recieved! It is sometimes very hard to imagine that I have any effect on students at all, but at the end of the day I must make an impression on some of them. The student also wrote me a little note thanking me, which is the best thing to recieve from a student. She has been through alot since I've known her, and she has shared many of her struggles with me, some of which are simply unbelievable. I am proud of her, and I know she will do well.

The kids have been in day care all this week. I like to have them go an extra week so I can have some time to myself to run errands and do things that are miserable to do when you have 2 kids along for the ride. I've been shopping for flower girl dresses, boys' suits, hair bows and some clothes for me. It's taken longer than I had hoped, but I'm finished. It took me most of the week, so now I'll only have 1 day left to myself. And, since the house desperately needs to be cleaned, it looks like I'll have about 5 minutes to myself. Oh well. I've had a pretty good time shopping and doing whatever I like without anyone naggine me or complaining.

So, although pretty boring, that's what's been going on since school's been out. Hopefully some inspiration will come my way about something interesting to write in the near future. I'm clearly still coming down from all the stress from the last few weeks of school! I'll get back to you soon with something more intellectually stimulating!