Two Years Later... An Overdue Update

By pure chance, I happened to click on the bookmark for this (cough, cough dusty) blog and reread my last post... which was written about two years ago. TWO. YEARS. Apparently, I didn't do so well keeping up with this! In very similar ways, I have let my personal diary writing also take the backseat. But I've shoved so much of my creative and expressive self into that backseat that I've decided that I need to be more creative and reflective. So here goes nothing.

I am going to attempt to update the past two years of my life as simply as possible:

• I ended up being called back to work for the district that had laid me off. I started off in 1st grade for two months. Those were the most challenging two months of my teaching career thus far. I cried every single day. I would come home and try to think of anything BUT school and filled my nights with ice cream and old episodes of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. (Perhaps that was why this blog was ignored.) In November, I was given the opportunity to teach Pre-K in a different school (same district). I am so glad I made the decision to move. I met the most wonderful associate teacher and I have grown immensely as a teacher these past two years. I absolutely love my job teaching preschoolers!
• Dennis is in his final stretch of college courses! If all goes according to plan (but let's be real, colleges hardly ever cooperate), he will be done in a little over a year (if it doesn't go according to plan, then one and a half years from now). I'm excited for him and already starting to (try not to) stress about a new budgeting adventure: repaying student loans. 
• My little sister is engaged! And getting married in 22 days! I couldn't be happier for her. My heart is filled with pure joy. She has found her person and they're perfect. 

Of course, many other things have happened in these past two years, but that's the price I must pay for ignoring the blogging/journaling world. Here's to hoping that I can do better this time around! Fingers crossed, friends!