The "Beyond" Part...

So, my blog title is "Baby Bump and Beyond"... but if anyone has noticed I did a great job maintaining my blog posts with the baby bump part... and the beyond part, well, I am sucking at.  I always have what I think are great blog post ideas in my mind... and then Irie needs milk, or her diapers need to be thrown in the wash, or I need to write an IEP for the following day's meeting, or I need to make more food since I just fed Irie and I just realized I am STARVING.  Anyway... excuses, excuses.  This summer I plan to update this blog with fun happenings of gardening, cloth diapering, breast feeding, and my life with a one year-old.

Excited?  I am!

Easter

Easter 2011

Easter 2012

Teacher Appreciation

This week is "Teacher Appreciation Week" and I feel very much appreciated.  As a new teacher, a new mommy, and a pretty new wife, this year has been quite an adventure.  All of my children (including both my students and my own little love) are so good to me.  On a daily basis they show their appreciation for me in a number of ways.  My students do a wonderful job of testing my patience.  They make me realize more about myself as a person.  They make me a better teacher, a better mother, and a better person.  My job is to teach them... and they get to teach me, too.  I am appreciative of every one of my students and every child who has made an imprint on my life.  I have been told "you have your heart wrapped so tightly around each one of your students"... and I am starting to notice that as true.  They make me crazy, but like Jimi Hendrix once said, "craziness is like heaven".

I also feel so much appreciation for every teacher I have had in my life (and that is A LOT of teachers)!  If it wasn't for my positive experience with school I would not be in the profession I am.  I love you, teachers.  And I also love all the other "teachers" (aunties, grandmas, uncles, grandpas, daycare providers, paraeducators, etc.)  Keep it up, teachers!