With my summer quickly dwindling to an end I feel like I need to write a blog about it. I went in to my school last week and checked out my new classroom and it kind of felt like a self defeat that was actually admitting that my summer is over and school is starting in less than two weeks. I had this hilarious dream of doing some school prep one day a week all summer long. Ha ha ha ha, that was so funny of me. I have not done a single thing to plan my curriculum yet. I did go and arrange the layout of my room and spend a bunch of my own money on new posters and frills for my room. You know the stuff you don't really need but must have because you don't want to have the most boring classroom in the school? I worked in Elementary for two years so I have the little panic inside of me that I need to have some kind of amazing theme for my room and have all kinds of crazy little cute things. I keep having to tell myself, this is Jr. High, and they don't care. They are not little kids. I go back to work for meetings on Thursday and is it weird that as sad as I am for the freedom of Summer to be over, I am kind of excited for school? I am sure I will take back those words in a few weeks. I am teaching three subjects, Utah History, U.S. History, and Geography. That is a whole lot of prep in teacher talk. Three subjects is a lot, especially for a first year teacher, but I feel confident and I say bring it on teenagers!
I have been frantically trying to organize my house before school starts because I know that I will have no spare time and if I don't get it done now, then it probably won't get done until Christmas break. Looking back on the last two and a half months, I would say this has been a pretty fantastic summer. We went on Trek, went to Washington, spent a lot of time with family, had plenty of lazy time, lots of fireworks, bbq's, and other summery type of stuff. I feel like the older I get the less I care about doing all the things that I think I "should" do each season. I am just enjoying the ride of life because it has been going too fast lately. We did get in a little Youngs Family trip to Lava Hot Springs at the end of July. Of course I did not take any pictures. We had a great time and it was nice to get out of the Utah heat and relax at the pool all day.
It has been great Summer, but now it is time to move on. I can't wait for cooler nights and days, and for Fall to come, and for my life to had a schedule again. Here is to the new school year and to a new adventure in life. So in farewell, enjoy this picture of Sam eating two popsicles at once, because that is how dang hot it is in our house.
