Monday, January 2, 2012
Let It Snow!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The Journey Begins
I have followed many blogs over the past year and have decided it is high time I started my own. Are there blog rules? Blog police? I hope not! So here goes...
Happy New Year! Come and get us, 2012! January 1st went perfectly. Good friends here - check. Yummy food - check. Family over - check. Relaxing day - check. Football on tv (Steelers pulled it out!) - check. Zumba class to work off too many holiday calories - check. Sounds like a pretty darn good day!
Do you expect to keep reading and see some New Year's resolutions? Not gonna happen! You see, this really isn't the beginning of the year for me. After years of schooling, both personally and professionally, my New Year falls at the end of August. Right? That's probably forty years of new beginnings always falling at the end of glorious summertime. New Year to me is bulletin boards, sharpened pencils, lesson plans, and smiling new children. That's my fresh beginning; a resolution to see the potential in every child and be the best teacher I can be. I strive to do both, knowing I am far from perfect, but doing the best I can :)
So my first of January usually signals the last day of Christmas vacation; the day I often write lesson plans and head to bed on time. Not this year though! Someone had the great plan to not have school on January 2nd...and I actually have all my plans and activities ready for the next two weeks. What?! Yep, it's true. My friend and co-teacher has taught me well. Thanks, Kim! That means I can stay up late with my sweetie watching movies and indulge in that leftover but oh-so-delicious chocolate chip cheesecake (Thanks Kathy!). Tomorrow is guaranteed to be stress free! That's the best way to start out - oops! - continue my New Year.
I can't resist in making at least a fewresolutions goals though.
1. Continue this blog. Not going to say how often I will be here, but I am hoping this becomes addicting (just like Zumba!).
2. Continue exercising. So thankful for my instructor Sandy and my Zumba friends who keep me going back session after session.
3. Continue crafting. I have strayed from my paint brush for awhile but I recently have had the time to pick it back up.
4. Continue relaxing. Be organized so that my time is creative.
I have no idea where this blog is going...could be crafty, could be educational, could be just my stress reliever. Come along for the ride (and eventually I will let you in on the secret that inspired my blog's name)!
Don't resolve to do something that is out of your reach. Continue the awesome things that you are already doing and make your New Year an awesome one - no matter when it starts!
*Allison
Happy New Year! Come and get us, 2012! January 1st went perfectly. Good friends here - check. Yummy food - check. Family over - check. Relaxing day - check. Football on tv (Steelers pulled it out!) - check. Zumba class to work off too many holiday calories - check. Sounds like a pretty darn good day!
Do you expect to keep reading and see some New Year's resolutions? Not gonna happen! You see, this really isn't the beginning of the year for me. After years of schooling, both personally and professionally, my New Year falls at the end of August. Right? That's probably forty years of new beginnings always falling at the end of glorious summertime. New Year to me is bulletin boards, sharpened pencils, lesson plans, and smiling new children. That's my fresh beginning; a resolution to see the potential in every child and be the best teacher I can be. I strive to do both, knowing I am far from perfect, but doing the best I can :)
So my first of January usually signals the last day of Christmas vacation; the day I often write lesson plans and head to bed on time. Not this year though! Someone had the great plan to not have school on January 2nd...and I actually have all my plans and activities ready for the next two weeks. What?! Yep, it's true. My friend and co-teacher has taught me well. Thanks, Kim! That means I can stay up late with my sweetie watching movies and indulge in that leftover but oh-so-delicious chocolate chip cheesecake (Thanks Kathy!). Tomorrow is guaranteed to be stress free! That's the best way to start out - oops! - continue my New Year.
I can't resist in making at least a few
1. Continue this blog. Not going to say how often I will be here, but I am hoping this becomes addicting (just like Zumba!).
2. Continue exercising. So thankful for my instructor Sandy and my Zumba friends who keep me going back session after session.
3. Continue crafting. I have strayed from my paint brush for awhile but I recently have had the time to pick it back up.
4. Continue relaxing. Be organized so that my time is creative.
I have no idea where this blog is going...could be crafty, could be educational, could be just my stress reliever. Come along for the ride (and eventually I will let you in on the secret that inspired my blog's name)!
Don't resolve to do something that is out of your reach. Continue the awesome things that you are already doing and make your New Year an awesome one - no matter when it starts!
*Allison
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