HALLOWEEN is one of my very favorite holidays! I don't know why, but it does not feel like halloween to me yet. I hope this weekend will change that!
Starting next week I will be working the the 1st grade monday through friday! I cannot wait and this is the perfect timing with needing a little more halloween in my life. What better way to celebrate then with 6 and 7 year olds! One of my very favorite halloween memories is my elementary school carnival. Let's keep our fingers crossed that they have a carnival at Rocky Mountain Elementary.
School is killing me now! I feel I am always at school and somehow I am always behind! I am sitting in a class right now and we just finished discussing how our income as teachers will classify us in the working poor group. The equivalent schooling level of the working poor is some or all high school. What the heck am I doing this for? I hate thinking about that....
On the bright side ONLY 70 more days till New Zealand! I cannot wait. I am a little sad that this will be my last semester on campus because then what?
Along with Halloween this month is birthdays!
My beautiful mother's birthday was on Wednesday! She is such an example to me and it is so nice to have all my family close by. My oldest sister Cassie's birthday is on Monday!
A Tribute to
My Mom: She always needing to do something. I remember as a child I thought she never slept. She was always up first, and always last to bed. You would walk in her room after having a nightmare and she sat right up to ask what's wrong (me being the deepest sleeper, I did not understand how this worked). The house is always clean. She is totally nosey. She loves to get in on our drama and she gets so concerned. She cares more about my dating life than I do. She can talk on the phone for hours. She cannot drive somewhere without talking on the phone because she is wasting time. Ironic because this is me. I am exactly like my mom. As I child I was described as the energizer bunny or the rabbit on Pooh, "So much to do, so little time." This is exactly how I would describe my mom. I get so frustrated with her lack of decision making, only because I cannot make my own decision. I depend on her for everything. I hope to know as much as she does one day. Thinking back I don't know how she was able to start at the age of 20 and raise all of us kids. We always got what we wanted, but at the same time she taught us so much work ethic. She must have done something right to create such brilliant children. She is the hardest worker I have ever met. Tell her what you want and she will search the internet for hours, call all her possible connections, and find you the best deal ever! I love having her here in Utah and I am so happy I have moved home. She totally pampers you. My mom is the most giving person I know. She can somehow find a way to provide her children the best of the best and does not care what she has. She has provided me with everything I have and says she does not want anything for her birthday. I wish I could give her more. Maybe one day, but then again I will be a teacher in the working poor class of America so maybe not!
Happy Birthday Mom!
Cassie: She is another great example to me. It is crazy to look back on the past 5 or more years to see where she is today. She is the girl you would see on that extreme couponing show. She knows what she wants and she knows how to get it. I see a lot of my mom in Cassie because she also needs to be doing something. Her daily life includes: getting Emmett ready and taking him to the DI for the unload time so she can score the best deals before anyone else. She then leaves on her daily run to the Provo library for story time. She checks out some new cooking books, a movie for Emmett and heads home to begin writing an article for someone who pays her. She uses that extra money to shop on KSL and find some new piece of furniture she can antique and put new handles on. She then calls all the sisters and rounds them up for bracelet making at 8, while she gets dinner cooked and on the table just in time for Jared to get home from school! Wow to think of her in her studded belts and punk rock style in high school, listening to hard rock, who would have thought? I am so happy to have Cassie here in Provo and I love going over to hang out with Emmett! I cannot believe she will be 26 and has her own family now! I am so grateful that she is our second mother, can organize family activities and I can always count on her to bake something great!
Happy Birthday Cassie!
