Another "From the mouths of Christian and Camden" ....

Christian: "Cam, you are my hay-dor-it (favorite) brudder."
Camden: "And Mama you are my hay-dor-it (favorite) mama."
Christian: "Yeah, you our hay-dor-it mama. We wuh you hooooo much!"
Camden: "Yeah we wuh you Mama!"

the most precious souls ever live in my house :)

Scott was awarded FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR!!

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a couple more pics from that evening...

Man...

I have really dropped the ball on posting, huh!!  In the past two weeks, I have probably cried more than I have in the past 10 years!  No not really, but I seem to have my meltdowns about missing my kids on Wednesdays lol.  I'm shooting for a tear-free Wednesday this week!  So far, so good!  For a Monday, today went really well.  I have been leading the morning routine (months/days of the week/lunch count/attendance/weather) every morning for a little over a week now. Tomorrow I'm going to lead a guided/independent writing lesson... I'm very nervous, so please send happy thoughts my way around 9:05 tomorrow morning ;) GRACIAS!

I'm so thankful for all of the support from everyone- keeping kids, kind words/thoughts/gifts.  I appreciate everything and everyone's help more than you know!

Debbie gave me a book yesterday that is inspirational quotes for teachers (THANK YOU Debbie!).  I haven't read all of them yet but I will share one of my favorites that I read yesterday...  AND it applies for everyone, not just teachers....

"Dear Jesus, help me not be so busy that I miss the small pleasures You've sprinkled throughout my day....Give me a child's heart that sees the lovely simple things in life."  I absolutely LOVE it.  Soooo many of life's blessings are overlooked because we're all running around like crazy!  If you can, try to slow down even just a little tomorrow and take in everything- even if it means getting up 5 minutes early so that you won't be so rushed.  You will notice things and be grateful for things that you so often miss!  I am sure I will have more great quotes to share from the book.  That one got me through today in much better spirits, though-- so I thought I would go ahead and share :)

Here's a quick couple of pictures I took of the boys with their Grandparent's day project :) 

We like to rap ;)

Camden & the counting rap song

Kinder babies!

So I went to my kinder class(student teaching) yesterday so sad about being away from my own babies and asking myself WHY I am doing this right now. WHY would I have ever thought I would feel okay with leaving them for 13 weeks Mon-Fri???  WHY didn't I wait until they started school?  We read a book called "Can Do Kid" and were doing an "I can __" project to go with the book. I asked one little boy what he CAN do so that I could help him sound it out & write it and he said "I can share Jesus and I can love." Right then, I remembered why I am doing this-- I love it! So precious! 

Nothing will change the fact that it breaks my heart every single day to leave Christian & Camden, but I was reminded of WHY I am doing it and how great it is that one day I will be earning money by doing something I love. Now, if I can just get through 62 more days of leaving my babies.....!!

Happyyyyyyy Birthdayyyyyyyy!!!

Happy 32nd birthday to Scott!! WOW you're old!! ;)  Have fun with our little angels today and enjoy all the REAL FOOD you get to FINALLY eat!!


I love you!!!! Tell Christian and Camden that I love & miss them!!! 

Look!

At all my cute school goodies that Debbie & Keith brought to me this evening!  So sweet and so cute- thank
y'all!!  :)