brownie goose

as many of you know i am a member of a wives alliance. it has been a great way to meet new people! one of our members sews the cutest homemade clothing for girls and boys! i have absolutely fallen in love with all the clothes and fabrics. i ordered all of our nieces an outfit. here is a picture of laneybug and abigator in their outfits that we got them. how cute are these clothes... and how cute are those checks and hair!!! never seen anything like it. cuteness all around!

check out the website below.  the first three outfits pictured are laney's new outfits and the fourth one in abby's!

http://browniegoose.blogspot.com/

done and done

i am no longer a first year teacher! yesterday was the last day of school for the kids. now we spend next week cleaning our rooms. i got through the whole entire year without a sniffle, cough, or sneeze. unfortunately my body finally decided to shut down one minute after the children left. i was wondering when i was going to run my body down. luckily it lasted me all year.

so as of now, i am confined to the couch with a box of kleenex, several empty cups which used to contain orange juice, cold and sinus medicine. you name it. we were supposed to go to a crawfish boil today but it seems that i will be missing it. although it is supposed to be raining for the next 9 days so maybe lots of people will be missing it.

so anyway, although my first year of teaching did entail some crying, over all i think i had a extremely good first year. just in the past few weeks i had people shocked that it was my first year. they had no idea! i feel like i have accomplished something. i retested my kids this week to see how their fluency increased. in 2nd grade you should be reading 90-100 words per minute at the end of the year. i have one child that went from 68 words to 142 words per minute! that was my biggest leap but have some other reading well into the third grade level!

also, back on March 31, i took two kids down to district (second grade took a total of 6... and we were the only grade to take anybody downtown). which means i spent all year doing interventions with them and put together a binder of all their work and all the extra work i had been doing with them. if district approves them, they are tested for exceptional ed services. all six of our kids were approved for testing ( and my binders were passed around the board room because nobody had ever seen such organization)! well they came to test all the children and none of the kids tested in except my two kids! one child i knew for a fact had ADHD and he was diagnosed with it so he will be moving onto 3rd grade with services and will not have to spend his 3rd year in 2nd grade! so excited for him. he has the best character you will ever find in a 2nd grader. my other student had medical problems so i have put in a request for home schooling. so we are well on our way to getting her the education she needs!

so all this good news was a great way to end my first year teaching and lift my spirits that i am in the right profession!

memorial day

memorial day is upon us. where has the time gone!  it feels like just yesterday we were painting our house and tying our mattress on the top of our car trying to get it home from sams.  it seems like just yesterday dr. and my parents were helping me set up my room for my first year teaching.

we are both looking forward to this weekend.  i have a three day weekend (although the kids last day is friday, i still have one more week) and i am trying to convince dr. to ask if he could skip work on monday.  if so we are hoping to make a trip to the lake.  if not, we have a crawfish picnic to go to on saturday and our street is having a street party sunday night!

memorial day makes me think of water, bbq, and family.  i ran across this bud light commercial and made me think of my dear husband and father -in-law when it comes to fire.  enjoy...

where's molly?

here's a little where's molly for you.  dr. took this pic tonight while i was working on last minute paper work.  can you find our little furry friend? (you can make the picture bigger by clicking on it!)

homeowners

as of May 13th, we have been home owners for one year!  i am so thankful that we live in a house!  i am not sure if we could go back to our 250 square foot apartment where dr. had to duck to get into our 1 1/2 square foot shower!  well we probably could go back to those small living arrangements sans creepy murderer that lived next door, mice as pets, and rat farm in the back yard that would keep us up all summer because of their loud squeaking. although we did have to adjust to many things while living in the big apple, i still miss many things about it.  whenever i see nyc on tv, it brings back lots of awesome feelings.   it was an experience that neither of us would have traded for anything.  ( you might want to double check with dr. on that statement because maybe he would have traded standing on the corner in the projects waiting for the avenue D bus to come with his coat and tie on and his ipod.)   anyways, on that note i will leave you with.....

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