The Intentional Life

 Well, it's still in May so I am telling myself that I'm not late....although compared to other months I am! My camera battery went capoot and I was negligent in getting a new one so most pictures were done on my phone with a less-than-stellar camera. Oh well. It's still documented. April had birthdays and Spring Break and a Band debut. It was full of ballet and soccer and school and more lesson plans and other school responsibilities for Paul. It was full, but it was good.  The beginning of the month brought my birthday and LOTS of homemade gifts!  Spring Break was a very welcome one.  We had a chance to spend time at a State Park and even squeaked a date night out of the week (hurrah!)  Paul picked up the Bass at the beginning of the year and has loved being a part of a Praise and Worship band. It was a huge highlight to be able to sing praise to my Jesus and see my husband performing at the same time. Looking forward to the next one!

This is a copy, with a few edits, from my post from last year. I wish I could say that I have always appreciated the hard work that teachers do. But, unfortunately, that is not the case. During my years as a student, they were certainly taken for granted, no thought for all the prep work and time spent outside of the classroom. The classrooms just come looking that way, right?  With all those posters and creative bulletin boards? I didn't think about all the homework assignments, tests, project, quizzes that had to be prepared before ever giving them to the students.  They just took them right out a book, didn't they? I mean, I know they had to spend time grading tests and homework, but they could get that done in about 30 minutes after school was done for the day. Done with work at 4PM?  Getting 3 months off in the summer and two weeks at Christmas, plus all those other random holidays? Psh. But that was then.  Sorry, teachers, I was a self-absorbed,