March Is Coming to An End!

APRIL FIRST IS TUESDAY! I can't believe how fast this school year has flown by! I have 8 weeks of teaching left and then it's summer break. WOW!

April 17th marks my districts spring break and I am trying oh so hard to get back to the mitten. My spring break begins the weekend of Easter, so flight prices are silly high. I hope to spend a week with my family and friends and then fly back this summer to spend more than a week with everyone! Time will tell :)

May and June will bring pretty big changes in this girls life and I am excited for my upcoming adventures! One adventure is to travel to any state spontaneously one weekend (any suggestions?) Another adventure is Jake graduating/moving to North Carolina. Another adventure is deciding whether I would like to stay at J H Rose or apply to other schools. Another adventure is moving into an apartment/condo/townhouse. Another adventure is training for a race. I'm sure that isn't all of the adventures that will occur in May and June, but I think that's a good start :)

I joined my schools staff softball league. I've never been one to jump on the bandwagon with sports, but I feel this will be a great activity to do outside of school with some of my wonderful staff members! I will keep everyone updated on our undefeated season ;)

I haven't blogged about Mr. Button lately so I decided to post a few recent pictures of how big he is getting! He's a wild one, but very smart. We have learned a lot about composts, planets, and dinosaurs!

My family recently rescued a mutt from our local animal shelter and his new name is Cooper! He's my buddy and I'm anxious to start to run with him. He sure has a lot of energy for being '3'!

 Happy almost April!!

'How to Love a Girl Who Doesn't Know How to Be Loved'

Happy Wednesday!

Today, while browsing my Facebook newsfeed after tutoring, I found this article and the title caught my eye.

'How to Love a Girl Who Doesn't Know How to Be Loved'

While reading, I began to think of women and how they are often labeled 'difficult.' When I finished reading, I took a minute to think of why women are often called 'difficult.'

I'm not sure about all women, but I know many who long for a relationship filled with love, honesty, trust, confidence, and happiness. It's one thing to long for a relationship filled with those things and more, and it's a whole other element to know how to find and exist in a relationship filled with those things and more. Many of us try and the relationship fails. Many of us try, succeed temporarily, and then walk away. Many of us try, and then get our hearts broken. Many of us try, succeed, and live happily ever after. Many of us fear relationships and never try. Many of us give our all, but are never met halfway by our partner. 

Then there's the women who fit perfectly into the mold this article describes: the ones who do not know how to be loved.

It's an interesting read that I feel reveals this perspective in an accurate way. 

I'm not sure about you, but this is me.

     

The Longest Recap You'll Ever See...

Since I've been an awful Blogger parent, I have a large recap for this post seeing how my last post talked about me getting ready to leave for my Bahama trip with my nanny family. Shesh! That was July 2013 folks.

What's happened since then?

Well, I went to the Bahamas :)

I golfed for the first time on my 24th birthday in Washington DC!

I left my nanny position to take a teaching job in Greenville, NC.

I was able to decorate my very own classroom and begin teaching at the end of August 2013!

I was a bridesmaid in my brother Adam's wedding. This was the first time my extended family traveled to NC and it was such a memorable weekend!

I started walking shelter dogs two days a week, which allowed me to run my first 5k with a shelter pit bull named Daisy! 

I traveled to Michigan for 2.5 weeks and had the best vacation and spent quality time with those who mean the most!

I witnessed my first NC "snow-pocolypse" where I was stranded in my house and bread/water was hard to find at the grocery store. 

I passed my certification tests and I am now certified to teach in Michigan and North Carolina!

I had a Valentine's Day weekend surprise trip to Raleigh with Jake!

I decided to be a volunteer tutor for Pitt County and I start this Tuesday :)

These are the 'big' events that occurred since my last post. I hope I didn't leave anything out! Teaching has been very tough, but this semester is better. I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it. My goal for this summer is to gain three tutor clients, get an apartment, continue to blog, adopt a greyhound, and take a nice trip to the mitten :)

XOXOXOXO!!!!

Oh Brother...

WHOA.
It has been almost three months since I've been on here.
Life of a first year teacher, huh?
I will be making an effort to re-vamp this blog and I WILL begin to post again!
SO much to share :)
Xoxo