Dreaming of Wishing Wells

I'm finally giving my sewing machine some use. One of the things I was looking forward to about having an apartment was being able to bring my sewing machine (which I couldn't do in the staff house) and have space to sew. And after making two pillows when I first moved in, the poor thing has lived in its case under my desk for months and months. But no longer. I am hard at work at a quilt top that is looking good so far. I will do a real post soon, but I just wanted to share a funny/cute quote from one of my students. Good old Jake (prone to angry meltdowns and brutal honesty) was praying this morning during our circle time. He said, "God, I pray for Chile and Haiti and the earthquakes. And God, I don't know why you made earthquakes. I'm not trying to be mean to you. But I just don't know why you did that." Tiring week at school so far...art class was canceled today and music is canceled Thursday. Luckily it was my week to have a lunch break today (I get o...

...so I will write in my blog. I am about to go to lunch with my good friend and future apartment-mate Bethany. I am excited that she is going to move in here! But that means first Kaitlin is going to move out, which is sad. Things will definitely be different around here next year! I apologize for the depressing-ness of my last entry. The rest of my week was not a disaster. But Thursday morning one of my students (I'll call him Jake) had a total meltdown. I walked my class to music and some of them were having problems in line. So we turned around and walked back a little bit and did it again. I said something along the lines of if they still had problems in line they would need to practice with me at the beginning of recess. Jake was purposely stepping on the feet of the girl in front of him. I didn't single him out since multiple children were having issues. He got very upset when I made the class walk back and do it again. Then he stepped on the girl's feet again. I sti...

I ended my last post (only a few days ago during spring break sitting at a coffee shop...already seems like ages ago) saying that there were less than 2 months until summer. And that I might survive. Today was the first day back at school. And I am really wondering if I will survive until June. I am currently laying in bed with a terrible sinus headache or migraine waiting until 9:00, which seems like a respectable time to go to bed. And I don't want to go back to school tomorrow. I almost burst into tears this morning in front of my class, not because of something specific that happened, just because of all of it. Because this is what my days are like. Fighting will battles with angry five year-olds who punch me and throw blocks at me. Trying to fill the gaps intellectually, emotionally, and socially, and teach basic right and wrong that some of my students are kind of clueless about. Plus the only break I got from my class today was about 1 minute and 30 seconds at lunch when I s...

It is Friday morning at 10:00 am and I am sitting at Cornerstone Coffeehouse in Camp Hill. One of my "goals" of spring break (since I actually had nothing I really needed to do) was to write a blog entry at a coffee shop. So here I go. Since I am on a quest to be healthier and save money (the impending car purchase is freaking me out and making me feel like I can't spend any extra money), I just ordered a small black coffee. No latte and no treat. So that's a little boring, but still good. There is a table full of annoying Camp Hill socialites nearby who are talking about all the important people and what they're up to. It's a little sickening. Break has been great. I think I've been more productive than usual, partly because I haven't slept past 7:30. I've been running every day. The weather has been beautiful! Until now, I've only been running on a treadmill at Planet Fitness, and it's been really fun to run outside here in Camp Hill. I j...