Mom's giveaway

My Mom's involved in a giveaway this week.... I hope that you check it out and are able to win her beautiful creation!!!

http://kindovermatter.blogspot.com/2009/10/giveaway-thursday-embrace-your-inner.html

Giveaway Thursday -- embrace your inner goddess!

This week's giveaway is from Mimi at
Comfort and Joy!

You have a chance to win one of her goddess necklaces!

To me, when I think of the word 'goddess' I think of symbols of strength and power, not necessarily physical but always-always emotional & spiritual. I think of being able to take on the world without a second thought & trusting yourself implicitly.

How to Enter:

Leave a comment describing a time when you felt like a goddess, & don't forget your e-mail address! To make this a little easier for everyone you can copy, paste & fill-in-the-blanks:


Your goddess moment:
Your e-mail address, so we can reach you if you win:

Contest ends Wednesday Oct. 21 at 8pm EST! The winner will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 22.

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Good luck everyone!!!

Drew and Drawn

My friend Takako (http://designbytakako.wordpress.com) came by yesterday :) I love having friends stop by. She needed to do a few portraits conveying emotion. I always love seeing how someone else sees me. It's so different from my own perception of myself. If I could draw, it would look nothing like these. Captivating.

Also got to see my brother last night. He's a mess. Don't really want to talk about it. But he's in my thoughts. I'm very worried. Sigh. Big Sister syndrome. He may end up moving in with us soon. Which is going to end up putting a damper on my relationship with John, as he's not very keen on this idea. But you've got to do what you've got to do. It's family.

Feeling kind of quiet and sombre. Waiting for fresh direct to arrive and give us some food, finally. Been a pretty hungry week. Bank account ended up in the negative. I really hate it when things take more than a week to show up on your account. And then, oops, you spent that money already. At least I'll be getting a paycheck on Wednesday. That will help a bit. Though most of it goes right back out for bills. Since when did I have to grow up and have so many damned responsibilities? Not cool.

I'm beginning to understand why my teacher friends go out and drink so much. I've felt like drinking quite a bit this past week. I haven't, because I don't think it's the right answer or outlet for my emotions, but it's been there in the back of my mind. I know that things are going to get a lot better, but it's just hard to wait for that moment in time. I'm always trying to rush forward. I always forget that you have to experience the rough times to appreciate that moment of quiet that ends up happening later on! Can't just expect everything to go smoothly from the get-go!

Listening to chick music. Keeps my mind happy, ha. If John only knew I listened to this stuff every time he was out of the apartment . . .LOL.

Well, I feel boring, old, and tired! I need to keep on cleaning. I keep saying I will and finding something else to occupy me. IE this blog! Adieu, mes amies!

Life is full of pricks

I once fell into a field of roses and felt what I discovered. There were birds and bees and other pretty things. I pet a moth and swallowed a gnat before I took a nap. When I woke the flowers were singing in the breeze and I plucked a thorn from my side before groaning and then, up up and rise. Had a conversation with a babbling brook filled with fish, from tiny minnows to fish that tricked my eyes as I tried to peer below the surface of the water, changing from blue to green and brown and back. It wasn't that lovely of a chat, simply directional and here's where I start and where I might end, but for all I know I'm a circle, I've never seen my end. And I thought, hey, that's a little bit like me. There's all this stuff, but who's to say what's up and down, if really my organs are all around.

Jellyfishie Lovies!

I am absolutely in love with the Jellyfish. Truly. Sincerely. I am in love. They are adorable. They are calm. They are funny. Inquisitive. ANNND they have barely cried at all. Which, for anyone who has ever worked with young children, is a miracle. They've never been in school before. Never left their mommies and daddies for long periods of time. And here we are, two days in, and not a single complaint from head teacher Rachel! :)

This weekend (yay for a day off already!) I went and purchased a couple of gerbils for the classroom. George and Jerry. Hehe. I am excited to bring them into the room and let the children watch them. Jerry's pretty darn active. He used his wheel for about thirty minutes a little while ago! I think I'm going to have a better time observing them than the babies will!

Went back to Hunter this week, too. I'm taking on three classes. But the course loads seem fair, and I should be able to balance everything. I was really nervous, especially since I wasn't feeling particularly well at the beginning of the week. But I'm back on my feet and back in action, and very excited to learn things that I can immediately apply to my classroom!

All of me

All of me is splitting and spinning and dizzied on up. Finished this and tidied that but loose strands splayed all across her view and bowled her over before she could have possibly known she would fall. Whoosh went the wind and bounce went her body and then it started all over again. And again. Then again again. And you know the rest of this sordid story, don't you?

The blah week

I knew feeling great and energized at work would be short lived. I feel like crap this week. I don't know if it's some sort of cold, really draining allergies, or something else that I can't fathom yet. All I know is that I have very little patience, and that the kids are really driving me up the wall. It doesn't help that nearly everything that needs to get done for project expo is literally up to me! God. It's like I don't even work with another teacher. It's kind of driving me crazy that she expects me to get everything done. Thankfully I know what I'm doing and I know how to do it quickly. But it's a pain to be the person who has to get all the stuff accomplished!

Class is going well; I'm going to be observed in the classroom tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Gonna go to the zoo this weekend. Maybe some art fair in Brooklyn. Who knows what else. I don't feel like being cooped up inside, though!

<3 Preschool

Photo shoot I did this morning. Obviously there are 11 missing from above, as I didn't want to put too many faces on here. But they are so freaking cute! I am going to miss them more than I can express in coherent words. I love each and every single one of them, for a million different reasons. <3