Well I've made it! Three weeks of freedom await me - and to those non-teachers reading this and judging: just go teach 29 six-year-olds for a while and tell me you don't need a mental health break.
I figure this would be an appropriate time of year to revisit my goals (read about them here).
Goal #1 - Eat organic food. I can proudly say that this goal has been accomplished! Paul and I have a great variety of vegetarian recipes to choose from for our weekly meals, and we splurge on weekends or when we go out we eat meat. The food we buy is almost always organic AND LOCAL! Jean-Talon market has been a great place for this, but the grocery stores are also great, with two aisles full of organic food, it's hard to go wrong. It's something we believe in and we've been doing well.
Goal #2 - Finding a spiritual group. Major fail. Uh oh. I was afraid this would happen. I feel like anytime you mention the word God or belief people automatically look at you as if you had three eyes. I've had great discussions with friends and family and Paul, of course, but I haven't been able to find that peace and prayer time that I had during the Bible Study I did last year. I'll keep looking!
Goal #3 - Exercise. This went well for a while. After school on Tuesday and Thursday, my two colleagues and I would go swimming. Swimming is AMAZING! It's great for my knee and it's a great way to keep in shape. And it's FREE! Public swimming pools are awesome. But now I don't have the same ride as I did before, so we don't go by the pool on our way home anymore. After Christmas, my new carpool driver colleague friend (hehe what a title for a friend!) mentioned that there is a new hot yoga place opening near our school, so we might go there! I also should try to go to the hot yoga place by my house during the break. I'll keep trying!
In conclusion: I eat well, exercise somewhat and need to pray more!
Saturday, December 18, 2010
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
What the elves are making this year...
Our 'writing a letter to Santa' has been especially rewarding to me as a teacher this year, because my students have come so far and can actually write! I am very proud. Along the way, I learned that there are some toys that never go out of style, for example:
-Barbies/dolls/Barbie accessories
-legos (especially Star Wars legos)
-books
The 'new' items on the list are the techy things such as:
-DSI
-PSP
-Wii
etc... really, I hope Santa is up-to-date on his technology and acronyms, because I don't think children would be very happy to end up with Pretty Sparkly Princesses when they really wanted some hand-held video game device.
In other news, it was my annual Christmas decorating party yesterday, which I only partly hosted with my mom at my parent's house. I say partly because, to be honest, my mom did most of the cooking and cleaning. I just came up with ideas. The decorating aspect was a success. I am lucky to have older cousins who have the cutest kids EVER, so we had two 1-year-olds, a 2-year-old and a 4 year-old helping to decorate the tree this year (and only one of the little guys was into un-decorating!). Then we ate - oh how I love Christmas food! I learned how to make tourtières and cassoulet with my mom last weekend! We also had mulled wine and cider, great salads and too many scrumptious desserts! After that, the cute kids helped decorate the gingerbread cookies I made. The one-year-olds were way past their bedtime at this point, so they didn't participate, but the other two kids did a great job. I had to supervise the chocolate chips though - I guess they prefer chocolate to gingerbread! For all the Puebla girls, it definitely was not the same without you, but you now have a very special place on our family Christmas tree! PS - I know I promised pictures, but my camera ran out of batteries, so you'll just have to wait and see!
-Barbies/dolls/Barbie accessories
-legos (especially Star Wars legos)
-books
The 'new' items on the list are the techy things such as:
-DSI
-PSP
-Wii
etc... really, I hope Santa is up-to-date on his technology and acronyms, because I don't think children would be very happy to end up with Pretty Sparkly Princesses when they really wanted some hand-held video game device.
In other news, it was my annual Christmas decorating party yesterday, which I only partly hosted with my mom at my parent's house. I say partly because, to be honest, my mom did most of the cooking and cleaning. I just came up with ideas. The decorating aspect was a success. I am lucky to have older cousins who have the cutest kids EVER, so we had two 1-year-olds, a 2-year-old and a 4 year-old helping to decorate the tree this year (and only one of the little guys was into un-decorating!). Then we ate - oh how I love Christmas food! I learned how to make tourtières and cassoulet with my mom last weekend! We also had mulled wine and cider, great salads and too many scrumptious desserts! After that, the cute kids helped decorate the gingerbread cookies I made. The one-year-olds were way past their bedtime at this point, so they didn't participate, but the other two kids did a great job. I had to supervise the chocolate chips though - I guess they prefer chocolate to gingerbread! For all the Puebla girls, it definitely was not the same without you, but you now have a very special place on our family Christmas tree! PS - I know I promised pictures, but my camera ran out of batteries, so you'll just have to wait and see!
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