Hellooooooooo everyone out there...

Greetings from the little yellow house on Ridge Avenue. A lot has happened in the last month or so. Let me see if I can work backwards and try to catch anyone who is interested...Here goes..

Today- I was in charge of the Primary Service Activity today. We made "Meals for Missionaries" These meals had either regular egg noodles, the "wacky macky" noodles or rice. The choices of meats were chicken, roast beef or hamburger. I had cooked all the above earlier in the week. I provided various sauces, soups, etc. Did I mention that the top age of my "helpers" was 7 years old!! We made 37 individual, freezer to microwave ready meals and finished the activity about an hour before the thunderstorms set in...

Yesterday- March 27th- I had an absolutely dreadful day at school...so after work I decided to go to Budget Car Sales to see if a key I had received in a mailing was my ticket to a brand new Toyota. It didn't...however, I did leave with a small token...A NEW CAR FOR ME!! Talk about impulse shopping! While there I decided to have the guy run some figures for me. I told him I did not want a car with a payment as high as the one I had just finished paying off. My old van was a 2001 and although it was paid off, you know what that means...repairs! I had a couple of things I needed to fix.

Long story short...I now am the proud owner of a 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan. I think this car is a gift from God. It is only 3 years old, it is a stow and go van, so I don't have to lift bench seats out by myself anymore and it has power slide side doors. You cannot imagine how excited I am about those. I constantly have my arms full either going or coming into my classroom. Now I just push a button and my doors close themselves! Whoo Hoo!! Did I mention I can realistically have my new car paid off in about a year and a half. That will be about the time I finsih my Specialist Degree. Great timing, huh?

Speaking of my Specialist Degree, I will being going to Valdosta State every day during June. I am a participant in the Blackwater Writing Project. It is an intensive month long writing program for 15 teachers throughout SouthEast Georgia. I will be the only Social Studies teacher in the group. At the end of the month, I will have earned 6 Graduate Credit hours. Usually, it takes 15 weeks to do that! I am excited about that opportunity.

I had a visit to Dr. Efaw last week. I have had a change in some of my meds and have been able to gain some of my energy back. I have conquered this year's allergy season after a two month battle. I can breathe out of both nostrils at the same time now! I also got my anti depressant meds change. I have been able to focus mentally so much better and have been able to take care of many things that feel to the wayside the past couple of months. I thank God for this blessing every day.

I am the teacher for the 8-11 year old girls in Primary. There are 13 of them. There is so much that I feel the need to do with these girls to get them ready for Young Women. Many of them come from little to no discipline at home and that certainly is my biggest challenge at the moment. I think there is some progress, but there is still so much to teach them in how to be reverent and young ladies in the Church.

Well, that's about it for now....stay tuned.