Sigh of Relief and Time to Read for Pleasure

Well, the light at the end of the tunnel is drawing nearer by the moment. Last Wednesday was my final day of student teaching. I stayed for parent teacher conferences because I felt it was a good learning experience to be on the other side of the table, but Wednesday was the true end date. While I know that it is not official yet as I don't have that special piece of paper from California; however, the weight on my chest is much lighter.

I feel like I can breathe a sigh of relief and take a bit of a break. I read a book today (subbing until a position opens and was off) completely for pleasure with no schooling in mind. I am starting Amy Tan's Saving Fish From Drowning tonight. I took the kids to school this morning, went on a long walk, did my laundry, swept, mopped, did a little grocery shopping, read, walked to pick up the girls, and made the family chicken alfredo with green beans for dinner. All mild and unexciting, but honestly...it was so nice. Tomorrow I think I may go for another walk after dropping off the kids, go REAL grocery shopping at Patch (where the food is stocked), and read some more. Ahhhh...the little things in life.

Happy Halloween-On November 1

Hello all. Nothing like a day late buy hey...better late than never. We decided to staty here at RB last night to do our Trick-or-Treating, and it ended up a good thing. The girls each got a HUGE bag full of candy. We may have only ten buildings full of people here, but each family gave out handfuls of candy. OH, they also gave out warm gluehwein to the adults. Ten buildings, three warm cups...and many HUGE smiles later we were done. The girls had a great time, but mom is bitter because I wanted to dress up too.

Tonight little Michael is having his 15th birthday party here at the house. In fact, there are currently five teenage boys ages 14-17 here at my house. They are preparing to eat five pizzas, five bags of chips, two big bottles of Hawian punch, onion dip, and 24 cupcakes. I will take pictures of the carniage to post here on the blog. Wish me luck.

The girls are spending the night with our friends Julia and Tim along with their children (seen here as venom and the creepy smiling skeleton) Ty and Julian.