Weight Loss and Student teaching

It's been a long journey helped out by a stressful situation called student teaching. I took advantage of the fact that I could not leave the school to make sure I had a healthy lunch and took note of my calorie intake. I also hit the gym every other day or so and started lifting weights again. I'm so excited to be 3.7 pounds from my first goal!!!!! I started at 200+ lbs and I am reaching my initial goal of 170 it's taken roughly 90 days, whew. I still have weigh to lose but I have not been this light for almost 6 years. I plan to make it to 132 and celebrate this Halloween in a costume that makes me feel and look great!

Looking back I remember how tough it was in the beginning and how I thought it would take me forever. Now that I'm so close it was not that hard and I know the rest of the weight will be harder to lose but I feel like I am up to the challenge and I can do it. I can do it. Funny that is something I tell my Kindergarten students. You can do it.

I am looking forward to a healthier me! I gave up quite a bit of my red meats and started eating more veggies and fruits. I think it helped that Tim decided it was time to jump on the weight loss bandwagon as well. It certainly makes it easier!

My student teaching is coming to a close. I cried in the car on the way home today thinking about saying goodbye to my students. I have really come to think of them in that way. I know I'm going to be one of those teachers who will get emotional at the end of the school year. I officially graduate on the 13th of June. What a wonderful feeling.

So with the scarcity of work I will be going back to my old job (Ross Dress for Less) at least for the summer and working a 3am paper route. When school starts up again my plan is to guest teach at the 3 local school districts. This will allow me to work only when Tim is home and still manage to make more money than I did at Ross. A full time job would be ideal but at this point I am competing with at least 200 other people looking for a teaching job around here.

The boys are doing well, with all this wonderful sunshine I need to get some summer pictures of them and post.

Almost done!

No new pictures at the moment, some should be coming soon...maybe...

I just finished up my last quarter of night classes! (YAY). On March 23rd I start student teaching. I'm nervous and excited all at once. June 13th I will graduate from Western Washington University with a major in special education and my certificate for teaching. However, because I don't want to fork over anymore money to WWU and I did not take a test all that money spent on dual endorsement was a waste (sort of...it will be helpful as a general education teacher to know what I know!) but it feels like they wasted my time and money because they were greedy and could do it. Wow look at me go on a tangent.

Enough of my whining. I'm happy to be almost done, what a feat to finally graduate from college 10+ years after I started the first time, and to do it with two small children one born a week before finals last year!

More to come as I have more to tell.

Leavenworth Weekend

Last year Tim and I were able to make a trip out to Leavenworth. Friends of ours have a timeshare out there so we stayed there with two other "couple" friends of ours. We had a ton of fun, we went shopping at the little shops, inner tubing, and played in the snow down by a river. We left the boys with mom and dad. This year we had the chance to do it again. What fun! It was so nice to get a weekend without the boys and able to do things like take pictures, take a scenic drive, go inner tubing again, shop at the little stores and play Wii.
See pictures below! To the left: My friend Kevin To the right: Tim coming down the tubing hill
Fake ice sculpture.