Saturday, February 12, 2011

It's been awhile...

I have not been on here in a long time mainly because I keep forgetting about it :) Since my last blog a lot has happened. I started the teaching job only to lose it in November because my teaching license was denied. I was devastated and have been waiting since then to get a notice of hearing in the mail just to send a letter back saying I want a hearing. FINALLY the letter came in on Friday so I wrote the letter and sent it off. Now I have to wait for a hearing date. In the time of not working, we got to spend Christmas with My Dad, Step-Mom, and Step-Brother and got to see Sean, that was a blast. After that I decided to look into getting my Masters in teaching which I would have had to get within 3 years if I was still teaching. Since January I have been getting things done to get into school. It is an online school BUT they are just as strict about getting in as a graduate on-campus school. Today, I got an e-mail from the school and I have been accepted!! I have my Bachelors in Music and I was planning on getting my Masters in Teaching to teach music. Last week I got a call before I was accepted and was told that my undergrad grades in science and social science classes were not good enough for an elementary ed degree so that looked at my transcripts and said my English grades were outstanding and my writing is amazing so that would like me in the English program. This will allow me to teach English to 7-12 grades. So now my course has changed and I am starting a new adventure! When I think about taking all the tests at the end of grad school for music I freak out and worry about how I am going to remember everything I learned let alone "listen to this song and tell who is the composer and the name of the song." I can't remember "old" songs for the life of me. When I accepted the change for my degree I was thinking about it and I feel 100 % comfortable testing in English. I really enjoyed the English classes I took for my Bachelors so much that I took ALL the English classes offered :) New adventures here I come!!! I start classes, how convenient, on the 21st which happens to also be my birthday!!

Kris is still working at Home Depot and is about to come up on his 1 year! March 3rd he will have been there for a year. I am so proud of him! He has gotten associate of the month twice, once in August and again in October. He found out from co-workers that he has been nominated every month but because of policy he can't get it more than every other month, lol. His hard work will pay off before we know it and who knows where that will take him :)

Kristopher and Kamryn both played football this fall and Kamryn is currently playing basketball. I signed them both up for baseball in the spring, this is the first year either of them have played. Kamryn excels at most sports he plays so it will be no surprise if he does well at baseball. Kristopher is yet to find his sport although I believe that baseball will be it! He is left handed so we are hoping for pitcher :) They are doing really good and both growing so fast, before I know it they will both be in high school.

On another note, while I was getting ready to write I was thinking that my blogs didn't need to be just about how things are going in life so I need to change them up. I have decided to write about anything and everything that comes to mind, which I do believe I was doing in the beginning. My next blog will be about anything but the family :) Stay tuned.....

7 comments:

  1. Love your blog and where God is leading you. Congrats to Kris as he's excelling at Home Depot! I enjoy your boys and can't wait to see how well they do in baseball!

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  2. Thank you Suzie :) I am excited for them to experience baseball!

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  3. I, your mother, love your blog also and am very very proud of you. How do you start a blog?

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  4. Thanks Mom! All you do is go to www.blogspot.com and sign up. Then start blogging :)

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  5. Hey Erin, I just saw this! I'm not an English major but I like to write. It's a great outlet for artistic people! :) As soon as I get my life-after-Berklee stabilized I think I will enjoy a blog! Some of my friends have them and post very funny/insightful things! I look forward to reading yours and seeing what you got going on in your noggin.

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  6. It is about time, girl~ you are almost as bad as I am! But-you have smaller kids so at least YOUR life has things happening in it! Mine is pretty boring.

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  7. Lisa, I enjoy it when I remember it :) I am going to try to blog daily. With my family and the fact that my brain never sleeps I will always have something to blog about :) I think you would be a great blogger, let me know when you start one and I will be sure to follow!

    Kristen, I wish I could use the kids as an excuse :) I just forget about it and when I do remember I usually end up doing something else i.e. Facebook, lol. I like reading your blogs, I don't think your life is boring :)

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