Engaged for real this time

David proposed tonight and of course I said yes! We were able to go to my staff Christmas party so I had the opportunity to show off my beautiful ring. We are both very excited!

School

I haven't really talked about school in a while. This year's class has several more challenges than last year. A lot of times I feel like I'm failing these kids. I hope that is just the perfectionist part of my personality coming out, but I just wish I could do so much more for them. If you're a teacher... do you ever get into those funks where you feel like everything you're doing is boring and there is no possible way you are getting the point across to your students? I feel like I should be giving more enrichment for my high kiddos and more reteach to my low students, but I'm managing as best as I can. They did a lot better on the middle of the year benchmarks than the beginning of the year at least. I think it's funny that all my students last year got commended on the reading TAKS whereas this year I am desperately hoping a couple of my kids even pass... My writing curriculum has been a lot better this year due to that professional development I did this past summer. I am planning on some sort of science professional development this year or summer to help improve my teaching in that area. I feel like it's nice to have goals so now that I've tackled some of what I wanted to work on in writing, I will work on improving my science lessons. If you can tell, I don't discuss school with David all that much and I needed to get some of this out, even if only my parents read it! :)

Rockin around the Christmas tree...

David and I decorated a tree together for the first time with our
ornaments that we have each accumulated over the years. All it's
missing is a tree topper and a tree skirt... I love Christmas time!!