Simply

The first thing that's been on my mind is teaching! Quarter 3 teaching is the best! Maybe it's just because we started the quarter off with a few snow days and delays, but it has felt so much better! I feel like my student relationships feel so solidified, expectations are established and easy to follow through with, I have a good routine going with planning and prep, my sleep schedule is back to normal, and I have been dreading less days than before. The only negative feelings I have are on days when I'm tired, but I think that's inevitable for me haha. I also feel like the unit I'm teaching is a little more engaging with the students, and they had a long break before starting the quarter. But next week we are already sending out midterms which is crazy! Also as I'm writing this, the weather has gotten a lot warmer the past 2 weeks, having days in the 60s and 70s so maybe that's where my positivity is coming from. Never will I ever live anywhere with more c...

 Sometimes when I think about writing a blog post, I get stopped because I feel silly. I want to have lots of posts to look back on years in the future, but I also don't want people to read stuff that is boring or I guess unimportant. I either feel like I am being too personal to where I feel vulnerable, or I am too surface level and it's boring. I try to keep my posts casual and to not edit them or think too much about them. I want them to be authentic and not feel like I am writing essays for school again.  When I get stuck with these feelings while I'm considering writing, I sometimes go read old blog posts from my Mom and my Auntie Lisa. Their blogs go back to like 2008 and it's so interesting to me to read their words from when they were younger. Some of them are so funny and I get so much enjoyment from reading them. But while they were writing them, they probably just felt like I do, writing about normal life for them. And maybe I just feel this way sometimes bec...

 Update time! My break was supposed to be from December 17th - January 26th but that has not been the case! This break is already longer than my other breaks, but the snow storm has nicely extended it. The first 3 days I was supposed to be back were completely canceled and fully remote. Luckily I didn't have to try and teach on zoom, but could just assign mini asynchronous lessons for them to complete at home. The last 2 days of the week were delays, so classes were shorter and I got to sleep in. Then we got another snow storm, and today school is completely canceled as well, planning for cancelations and delays tomorrow. ANDDDD, it's supposed to snow again on Wednesday. I still haven't been back for a normal day of school yet. For the quarter only being 9 weeks, I already know it's going to fly by because of all this snow. Clayton's job is also weather dependent so we have been able to hibernate together :) Also, I didn't know that snow storms have names like H...