HOORAY!!!! TAKS TEST RESULTS

Okay so it's the first day back to school after spring break and reading TAKS results are in!!! As gradelevel leader, I quickly checked our scores to see that 94% of our students passed and 38% commended!!! After that I was able to disect my own class's scores to see that all 16 of my students passed and 50% of them received a score of commended with 1 person making 100%!!!!
I AM SO EXCITED!!! MY HARD WORK PAID OFF AND ALL OF MY LITTLE DARLINGS CAN PROMOTE TO 4TH GRADE (so long as they are passing all subjects, of course)!!!!
I know there are some who don't really understand the excitement....but several of you do!!!

Spring Break!

Well, I just dropped my mom off at the airport! She got here last Friday night and left this morning. We had a good week. First, I am trying to get back into running and living healthy so I did a 5K last Saturday with my friend MR. We had so much fun even though it was a little hilly and we beat our goal time. My mom's luggage was lost so we stayed at home the rest of Saturday. We got a lot of shopping done here in Killeen, in Temple, in Waco, and in Austin. We took the kids to eat and play at Ghattiland. We visited the Dr. Pepper museum. Let's see...Vader was groomed, christmas boxes were broken down and recycled, all my papers were graded, Paprika got a haircut, I made it to a doc appt, I got a pedicure, kids were registered at Central Registration, we played Bunco for a cancer fundraiser, took some pictures, and some other stuff.
We ate well also. Let me remember....Cheddar's, Fuddrucker's, Ghattiland, Bush's, Taqueria, Jason's Deli, oh and we did eat at home a few times also!!!

Thanks mom! We had a great time!

Not much happening!

There isn't a lot happening with us....just the normal stuff, I guess!  Math tutoring started today and I have 8 kids in my group.  SOmetimes i wonder why i sign up for 1 more hour of teaching, but i know the kids need and deserve it!

I joined Gold's on Saturday.  I even signed up to have 9 sessions with a personal trainer.  My first session with my PT is next Tuesday!  I'm excited.  I'm also running in a 5K this coming Saturday with Maureen (she's walking it) but it'll be nice to have someone with me!  I've done one race with my Houston Mom-in-law which was better than the race i did alone!  It really helps to have others around...especially for the motivation to keep going!

My mom is coming this Friday.  It would great if everything was perfect by the time she gets here, but i'm not seeing that happening yet!  Here it is 11:45 at night and i'm waiting for laundry and YES i have to be up at 5:00.

Jacob and Erica have new haircuts that i need to post pictures of!  they both look so awesome!

I'm excited to hear what Aria's baby will be on Monday and am thinking my bro-in-law is insane for having another baby!  But no one asks me these things.... although i find it crazy that his family is about to out-number mine and he's almost 10 years younger than I am!

Today was a field trip day for the 3rd graders....boy were they actin' crazy!  I am most excited for Spring Break to be here but wish I didn't have to grade papers and finalize grades during that time!!!

Just my random thoughts..... see.... now there's no more wondering why i can't sleep.... my brain won't slow down!!  These are all the reasons I crash when Isaac gets home!!!