Moving Forward
My Unbloggable Issue has not exactly resolved, but I’m moving on nonetheless. Because sometimes as a grown-up, that’s what you have to do, to keep on keeping on despite whatever might be holding you back.
And there have been exciting things happening too, as often happens in life. A colleague of mine and I gave a long-planned presentation at the AIMS annual conference, and it was well-received. Scratch that– it was received with applause, high praise, and incredible feedback from friends and strangers alike. I joined a new committee at school and am very excited about the work we are undertaking, and the fact that I was accepted from many to join. I’ve had some great classes with successfully planned lessons, and am more and more excited about the trip to Denver I’ll be making in early December to go to a conference on leadership and diversity, along with some of my favorite colleagues, some I’d like to get to know better, and some wonderful students. As fast-paced as my first full-time year has been, I’ve had some amazing opportunities and accomplishments already, and it’s been thrilling to feel myself becoming a valuable and useful member of the school community.
On the home front? Things are humming along, with Brownie meetings, some classroom volunteering, math facts and library books and lunchboxes. The house is definitely too messy, but we’re halfway through Half-Blood Prince, and my sister and I took the girls roller-skating for the first time, which they loved! I made my first chocolate-peanut-butter brownies, and all the Girl Scout cookies are gone, gone, gone (stress eat? me?). I am still loving Peapod. I also wish someone would come over and sort through the kids’ clothes so I can finally donate a bunch of them, and I’d like to clean out my own closet too. Did I mention that I wish my house was cleaner?
All in all, I’m a little tired, a little messy, but completely content with all the patched-together parts of my life.
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Congrats on the presentation and all of your career accomplishments!! Sounds amazing!
If you need someone to look through some old kids’ clothes, u know I’m all over that!! Since we both have May babies, sizing won’t be an issue — it just all depends on how far back the clothes stash goes.
Glad to hear about the good stuff!
Getting everything packed up for the donation center is one of my ongoing items on the to-do list. I really need to get at it though, if I want to get one more set of deductions on this year’s taxes…..
Christine, I’m afraid to say it doesn’t go back too far– I probably gave away a lot of the smaller stuff before Claire was even born! But I’ll definitely keep you in mind when I do get to it.
Jody, I don’t even take it to the center– the Salvation Army will come to the house if we call and make the appointment– which makes me feel even worse about not getting it done yet!