Reading my body...and listening...

Today I am listening to my body.... I have been working in my classroom (trying to get it ready to start school in less than 1 1/2 weeks)...this involves climbing and squatting and walking all over the place...plus playing taxi for my princess and the teenager...

So basically trying to wear my Superwoman cape....

It took 2 "Spoons" to walk downstairs to make my pot of coffee... I was awake...so I'm not sick...just VERY sore joints and muscles... To describe it for you... I felt like an 80 year old woman walking downstairs...

SO.... today I am making myself rest in bed and watch movies...entertaining myself also with facebook and solitaire...

I may not like it...but like I tell my children (the ones I gave birth to and the ones I teach).."You don't have to like it...you just have to do it!" :)

Remnants of Sylvie...

How do I know my princess has been in the room?

She leaves a little something behind every time she walks out of a room....kind of like what she does to everyone's heart after they meet her....

Floating like a butterfly....

My life is starting to spin out of control....that is because I have to go back to school in 18 days...


Most do not realize that it is like starting a new job each year for teachers....you have 24-27 new little faces that are unlike any other child you have taught before....And you have to get to know all of them...and their parents....
This is also the time where I begin having nightmares about everything that could go wrong in the classroom...Plus I had to organize coverage for my two amazing kiddos...which is complicated because the teenager has football practice every day 8-10am....Plus I'm going to teach a different grade this year....so you are probably saying "She must be nuts to go through this...."

...then I remember to float like a butterfly through all of my complicated crazy chaos..

Making memories...

I remember going to Deep Creek Lake and Big Bear Lake every year for the Sisler family reunion...

I remember my dad and uncles trying to take apart the pontoon for hours...trying to make it go faster...(true story)

I remember roasting marshmallows...making smores....playing with cousins...

One day, my kiddos and I will remember this week with family :)

Pure bliss...

Some people would walk into Sylvie's birthday party and think...."Complicated, Crazy, Chaos" (which it was...)

But all I see is pure bliss :)

Tired...

Some days, I wonder why I am so tired...

A princess was born...

July 6, 2001...

New Tradition

Anthony and Sylvie have always begged to go to Red White and Boom...the ex always said no...and I agreed...because when I was in high school, the tornado sirens went off during my first red white and boom....so needless to say, I had a little bit of a traumatic experience...

So my friend Angie suggested we go with her new husband and kids this year...

It was so easy to get in and out of downtown...where we watched the fireworks were perfect. She told me she has been going there since she was little...

So the kids and I have a new tradition...Red, White, and Boom with the Stevenson's :)