choose happiness

I decided to choose happiness in my life and it helped. Monday through Thursday (no class friday!! yay!!) i did it at school and at home and i really feel like it helped me. i took more time to breath and relax instead of letting myself react. that goes back to something we talked about in church a while back. I do not want Satan to help me react badly to things. Instead, i want to decide how I respond. I am not going to let silly drivers get the better of me and get upset over little things.

My husband is so fabulous! I had some horrendous misunderstandings on Friday and I got really upset over them. I don't know if i'm losing it or what? he said tropicana and i heard charleston!! they sound nothing alike. well, the next morning, saturday, he took craig and i for a drive and we had a picnic breakfast to try and watch the sunrise. it was magnificient! the sun did not end up showing too well, due to some very rare cloud coverage that made the sun invisible. but i enjoyed my time with my family and enjoyed feeling so loved by my husband.

updates

this week, i had track one, the morning class start school and i was their substitute because their teacher had a baby on monday. and let me tell you that the class is wonderful! it helped me really realize that it is just a really difficult class in the afternoon.

I am very glad that i am able to be working. Jade McClellan is watching craig two days a week for us and my mom 2 days and anita watched him on friday! i have so many wonderful people in my life.

with the am class starting school, i remembered that i really do like teaching 5 year olds! they are very sweet. one little boy (and it was so chaotic the first day i don't have a clue who it was) brought me a rose the first day of school!! it's like he knew i had been having it tough and was thanking me for sticking with it! then, a couple days later, a girl in my pm class brought me a fake little rose, but was so sweet about it!

it was still a difficult time at times during my week, but i am enjoying parts of the day.

craig has so much fun! on tuesday, when i picked him up, he actually threw a fit that he had to leave! he had been riding a tricycle around the whole day, practically and loved it! i am so glad he is getting to be around other kids and will hopefully learn to share and get along with others better because of it.

i had my first open house i was in charge of! and i think it went ok. there were a couple of things i shouldn't have mentioned about my substituting position and how i'm not sure what's happening. but i had both am and pm together and it seemed to go well. i was worried 60 parents would be there and instead, it was only about 20-30.