Heart, heart, heart.

Hi all! Well, I hope you love Valentine's day just as much as I do because I am not ashamed to have a cheesy Valentine's blog background! :) I'm so excited about getting to be in an elementary class during V-Day, because we'll get to do the whole Valentine's Post Office thing! I am most definitely making Valentines for all my kiddos! I simply adore Valentine's Day. I don't know why. It's not that I love the super romantic take-you-on-a-fancy-date-just-to-impress-you kind of thing...I just love all the cute stuff at Target! And apparently I buy lots of it too! :) Leave a comment if you do too! :)

Anyway, I just realized that 2009 begins my THIRD YEAR of blogging! WHOA! I can't believe I've been blogging that long! I remember when I first started! Crazy. Well wahoo!

Brrr...

Today was freezing AND we had a teensy bit of "precipitation." You know what that means! The whole town shut down! I love living in a town that freaks out about a little cold weather and uses any excuse to pull out fancy titles such as "Ice Storm 2004." So, today I reaped the wonderful benefits of that--school was closed! Which meant I got to sleep in, spend a wonderful morning sitting around in my PJs, and then finally got to catch up on some of my lesson plans in the afternoon. Throw in a little fun with friends at the end of the day and YAY! I needed this oh-so-lovely day! It was like a mini vacation.

Well speaking of mini vacations, sorry I haven't been on the blog-o-sphere for a few weeks! Lots of things have been going on though! The biggest thing is that I started Student Teaching! It's wonderful! My mentor teacher is simply amazing and her teaching style is similar to mine/what I aspire to, so it's very easy to mesh in and work with her class. My only complaint about student teaching is that I hate having to go to bed so early! :) I miss being a night owl.

Weddings on the weekends have been a little draining, and my last one until May is this coming weekend! I'm so glad I made the wise decision of not taking any more weddings until I graduated. I'm not sure if I could have handled it all! But come May, I'm booked with weddings for almost every weekend until the end of August! I'm so thrilled and blessed. It's going to be busy, and I just can't wait!

Let's see what else is new? Well I don't want to bore you to death with in-depth musings. Life is good. I've been re-reading the Christy Miller college series (Cherith, that's for you!) and they are like my little escape after a day full of crazy kiddos. Want some good music? My new favs are Brooke Fraser's album Albertine, Taylor Swift's new CD Fearless, Sufjan Steven's Michigan album, and Coldplay's Viva la Vida!

Well it's bed time for me! G'night!