Time for relaxation?

July 26, 2009
Another busy week whizzed by! Where does the time go? I spent 30 hours this week doing my professional portfolio. It’s required here in Iowa. There are 8 Iowa teaching standards and each of those has about 5 substandards. You have to have 2-3 artifacts showing proof that you have met this standard in your classroom. So, if you do the math, it was about 120 pages that I had to include and write each thing met a standard. It was a flipping nightmare that took over 30 hours. My back end was planted at the kitchen table all week. Thank heavens the kids were perfect so I was able to complete it.

Tyler and Kayla went to volleyball camp this week and loved it. Out of all of LM district, Tyler and Hunter were the only boys that attended. I told him the other boys at school would be jealous that he and Hunter had a whole gym of girls to themselves! We have alos been going to play tennis as a family because the weather has been GORGEOUS!!! The summer has been so lovely. We had this incredible storm move in this week so that so majestic we had to open the sliding door and watch it (while praying it wouldn’t turn into a tornado!)

Our garden is flourishing! Our zucchini’s are out of control. We have been shredding them and freezing them. I have made yummy zucchini bread too. Now our green beans are taking off- any idea what to do with them all? Our tomatoes will be ripe soon and then we plan to can homemade salsa all day. Yummy! We also spent 4 hours as a family deep cleaning and organizing the kitchen yesterday. It looks so great now and we even know where everything is. Now maybe I can FINALLY relax this summer? Maybe??