update for our family- i cannot access my home email, facebook (BUMMER) or twitter here at the hospital (but i can get my work email- go figure!) we are back in our room on the peds floor. there is some pain and grogginess, but all things considered we're doing pretty good. our youth leaders, dai & jenny brought up mcdonald's and we're eating fries and drinking a sprite. :) i get to stay up here tonight too- boy have hospitals changed!!! we should go home tomorrow. thanks for all the prayers!
this weekend is definitely not going as planned. i brought home a big TUB of work to do- lesson plans for two weeks, getting my students files labeled and paperwork sorted out, doing some curriculum mapping for myself to put the K & 1st stuff together and mapping out where i am going to head this year, cutting out a bunch of feltboard sets i received from donors choose. i need to get a lot done this weekend as my grad classes begin this monday! YIKES!!!
instead i am sitting in the hospital awaiting my child's surgery- a surgery that was not in our plans for this weekend. oh well, life is still very, very good. thank God for insurance (even when it is more expensive & benefits cut) because without it i don't know what we'd be doing right now. thank God for jobs to pay the bills we'll now have. thank God for family that prays for us. thank God for three youth leaders that have surrounded my family with love in the almost two years we've now known them, but especially has come around us this summer in the midst of other junk to shower us with His love and their love and their support.
thank you God for being with us in it all- even when the weekend goes a direction i didn't plan. now to get back to picking on my kid. :) i LOVE being a mom!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Matthew's new haircut
Matthew started his new school year today. He wanted his friends to see him with his longer hair and his facial hair "goatee thingy" (my Barbara Rose word for it). :) So he came home today and gave himself his first military haircut since he is now a member of JROTC!
Here he is before the deed. :)
Here he is before the deed. :)
Look at all that hair!
Ta-da, here he is!!!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
God blesses us even when we don't deserve it
In the midst of a little storm this week, God still shows me He loves me. I don't understand Him or His crazy love, but I am so thankful for it.
I woke up this morning to an email that another of my donorschoose projects was funded. This makes four of 8 that were funded so far this summer! :) I have four more live projects up right now, and now have more points earned to write more grants when I have some time. Each time we submit a proposal it costs us points, but we can earn points back by confirming our funding promptly, by writing a thank you note immediately, and then by completing the thank you package with student letters and photos. So for every project we get funded and complete the requirements we spend 1 point but earn 3. So far in the one year I have been a donorschoose teacher, I have had 7 projects fully funded & only two partially or not funded. I just added those projects up and it totals over $1900 that has been given to my class by friends, family, myself, a wonderful volunteer of ours, and total & complete strangers from NY to WA and all over the nation!
This is one of the four remaining projects left that I am hoping will get funded. I prayed all summer that God would bless me with full funding for them all. I'm half way there thanks to God sending me some generous donors!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=288704 This one is called We Love Puzzles, and when funded, it will purchase a wooden puzzle rack and two sets of multicultural puzzles- one that displays homes around the world and one that shows families from around the world in different cultures.
You can find my other proposals by on the sidebar over there. Or you can go to www.donorschoose.org, type in the search bar, Allen Jay Elementary, and look for projects with Mrs. T. on them. That's me! If you know anyone or any business that would be willing to donate, would you please pass my info along? Thanks a bunch!
I woke up this morning to an email that another of my donorschoose projects was funded. This makes four of 8 that were funded so far this summer! :) I have four more live projects up right now, and now have more points earned to write more grants when I have some time. Each time we submit a proposal it costs us points, but we can earn points back by confirming our funding promptly, by writing a thank you note immediately, and then by completing the thank you package with student letters and photos. So for every project we get funded and complete the requirements we spend 1 point but earn 3. So far in the one year I have been a donorschoose teacher, I have had 7 projects fully funded & only two partially or not funded. I just added those projects up and it totals over $1900 that has been given to my class by friends, family, myself, a wonderful volunteer of ours, and total & complete strangers from NY to WA and all over the nation!
This is one of the four remaining projects left that I am hoping will get funded. I prayed all summer that God would bless me with full funding for them all. I'm half way there thanks to God sending me some generous donors!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=288704 This one is called We Love Puzzles, and when funded, it will purchase a wooden puzzle rack and two sets of multicultural puzzles- one that displays homes around the world and one that shows families from around the world in different cultures.
You can find my other proposals by on the sidebar over there. Or you can go to www.donorschoose.org, type in the search bar, Allen Jay Elementary, and look for projects with Mrs. T. on them. That's me! If you know anyone or any business that would be willing to donate, would you please pass my info along? Thanks a bunch!
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