Moving Forward

merry christmas

Middle school, 4th grade, 5th grade...
So far these are the kids I've subbed for. First let me just say that I LOVE subbing! I didn't think I'd like it as much as I do, but it's so fun for me! Now don't get me wrong... some of these kids are bad. Some of these kids make me wanna meet them after school by the oak tree if you know what I mean. BUT in spite of the few problem kids, it's great. I've decided I'm not too fond of 6th graders though I do feel bad for them. Its such an awkward age. Today I had a class of 5th graders and I loved it. They are an interesting group of people. I think I like it because I can remember sitting there being so excited about having a sub and thinking that they weren't going to know what they were doing. I remember passing notes and asking to go to the bathroom like 8 times during the day. I remember things I said to my friends about subs. AND sometimes, just sometimes I remember having a "cool" sub that we walked all over. I'm proud to be a mixture of cool and stern. Like today... I had to send 3 kids to the office, but those who were actually doing their work and being respectful had a fun end of the day playing games. Can I just say that "heads up, 7-up" is probably more fun for the teacher than you could have ever imagined. I wanted to play right along with them so bad!! Remember playing "around the world"? Also a very good time.
Anyway, all that to say I love subbing so far. The calls at 6:30am aren't as fun (especially when you go to bed at 3), but I'm finally making some money so I'm dealing with it.
How 'bout this weather?? I'm loving it! (I'm so old... who talks about the weather?) But seriously it's beautiful and the trees are beautiful. not really looking forward to the snow we're supposed to get on friday, but it's Indiana what can I expect?
So the church job... it's mine if I want it. I'm actually not going to take it which is probably a shock to most of you, but feel free to give me a call and ask why.
I carved more pumpkins today! We actually went back to the orchard that trent and I got our apples and pumpkins from. My newer pumpkin is pretty rockin if I do say so myself... and I do. Here's a picture of it...

Yeah, be amazed!
Teaching has been keeping me pretty busy which has been a huge blessing. Let me tell you, not having a job for almost 6 months gets real old. I actually look forward to the weekends now because it differs from the week. Whoa, what a concept. This weekend either trent is coming or I'm heading up to naperville. Either way its gonna be a good time, thats for sure. If you know me at all you know I love Christmas music. And if you know me at all you know I love Third Day. What this means is that Tuesday was a great day for me because the Third Day Christmas cd came out! Good stuff. Mac Powell can sing to me any day. Now that the weather is colder I'm already excited for Christmas. I'm tempted to change my general ringtone on my phone to jingle bells, but I'm going to try and contain myself until the thanksgiving (or at least november).
I'm still stuck on God honoring and teaching patience right now. It's such a simple concept, but often not so easy to practice. There are so many things going on right now that I just want to see the end result in or I just want to know the answer, but a good friend has had great timing in reminding me to be patient and God is following through on that and will continue to follow through. I had a free period in one of my sixth grade days and I turned on the tv in the classroom and they had all of the good channels that I just got rid of because I'm at war with brighthouse networks. as I was flipping through I stopped to watch a silly commercial and right after the commercial Beth Moore (hugely popular women's bible study author and speaker who I've talked about a ton on here. I'm doing one of her bible studies right now.) came on the screen and began to continue the sermon she had been preaching before the break. she was talking about contentment and patience with the Lord and in the Lord. It was brilliant because God timed it perfectly. it ended just as the bell rang and students began to file back into my room. Funny how that worked out, isn't it?

posted by Moving Forward @ 11:23 PM