My NBC

Well it's official, I am now a National Board Certified teacher! I found out this mng that I had past my certfication. I swear I closed the browser and reopened it to log in again at least three times before I believed what it said! So after 2 years of hard work and the re-entry of one entry, I feel so calm. It's been a while since I haven't had to think about what lessons would videotape well, or which unit to write about, or the spending 7 months- TWICE- just waiting for my scores and wondering if I should start preparing more lessons... I am so excited and relived, I can't really keep my thoughts straight here. The main point is I passed, on my own at the age of 27, with 4 & 5 years of teaching experience when I started this journey! I am SOOOOO excited! I also could not have kept my sanity without the help of my wonderful husband Jeremy, my collegues, my family & friends, and my sopranos telling me I could do it and how awesome I was as a teacher the whole way through this! Thank you! Love u all dearly!

"Step-sister's" wedding shower

I went to Edmond today with my aunt Suzy for my dad's wife's daughter's wedding shower. Aka the "stepsister". I say "stepsister" b/c we are adults and neither of us live at home, etc. therefore she's dad's wife's daughter. I enjoy her, and I think she is a very nice person- but how totally akward today was- having only really spend 6-12 hours of "quality time" with her over the past 9 months. And I have to assume it's weird for her too, but maybe not, we aren't close enough for us to discuss our weirdnesses with each other lol. As Jeremy says my other stepsister (mom's husband's daughter), who lives in England, has more in common with us and we have seen more than the "stepsister" who lives in Edmond. This is a very true statement, but I don't really know how to be friends with the "stepsister". It's like a person you meet and think you could be friends, but then you have one convo and you realize you've just discussed everything you possibly could with that person. Anyways, she had a lovely shower, although far too many shower games lol. Looking forward to the wedding in December though, I think she will be a beautiful bride. And her fiancé is a great guy, and he's named Jeremy to boot. Now I'm only stumped as to what to get them for Christmas...?!

Teaching Jessie to blog on her iPhone

So I'm sitting here at Mandy's party and Bethany and Blaze are complaining that I don't blog anymore...
So here I am blogging on my iPhone, since they told me how to blog from my iPhone. I really have nothing exciting to blog other than what has already been said.