Stressed...

It's the weekend (almost!) and I am still trying to cross things off of my huge To Do list.  I get to teach tomorrow and as excited as I am to do that it is so stressful, until it's over that is.  Today has been none stop ALL day, I just got home after being kicked out of the Clarke for closing.  I still feel like I have so much to do for tomorrows lesson (when actually I most likely don't have that much but if you know me at all then you know that I am going to over thing EVERYTHING!) So I am just crossing my fingers that everything will go over well tomorrow.  My hardest thing is staying on schedule so thats my goal... I just hope I can do it! :)
Just about the only thing getting me through this weekend is knowing that I get to go home and spend time with my family!  My sister is having her baby boy on Sunday and so I just have to go down! :)  I am trying to get Babe to go with me but he is such a hard worker and doesn't want to get out of work on Saturday to go with me.  I hate being away from him but I need to go down every chance I can because I don't know when I will not be able to do that anymore.  Scary thought. As stupid as it sounds I am also really excited to go down so that I can help my other sister organize her office.  I LOVE organizing and so I talked her into letting me help her (like it was really that hard to talk someone into letting them clean your house...) I am also just excited to see her kids and spend some time with them.  It's going to be a gooood weekend! :)  I just hope I can make it that far!  If I can just get my mind to stop wandering so I can get some sleep then I think that will help.  But lets be real, like that will happen. Well I really should get back to work... So much to do in so little time!  Wish me luck!

Thankful for this boy tonight, he is such a blessing to me!

Firsts...

Today was the first day of preschool. The first day I was totally in charge. The first day of my last semester here working with children.  It was a pretty big day for me!  I was worried about today and told Babe that as long as no children got hurt or died then I would have succeeded. I also told this to my professor and he told me "I think you should raise your bar a little bit..."  I just figured as long as that is my bar height then everyday will be a good day! (hopefully...) Well, thats how I want to look at it.  We were on schedule all day except for getting the children over to closing circle and getting ready for check in check out.  We were just having so much fun in our focus activities (we were making ice cream in bags! (freeezing, but so yummmy!) If you want to try it this is our recipe we used, just go HERE.  We didn't use rock salt though but normal salt worked great (you just have to have lots :))
I have some struggles with one of the girls in my lab but I am working on getting over those... Ugh!  Sometimes its hard to be in charge... ;) Other than that I love my lab, we all work well together and have fun getting to know each other also.
I am so blessed to work with children everyday.  Seriously, I could be having the worst day and then they totally change it around.  They tell you the funniest things like today...

I was helping a little girl get on her coat and mentioned I liked all the snowflakes on it. She told me she also loved snowflakes and would eat them! I just kind of laughed when she said, "I love eating them and catching them on my tongue and then when I do they melt and turn into my poop.  I just poop them out and then eat some more."  

I could not stop laughing, where do kids come up with this stuff?  :) And if you know me at all then you know that poop is one of  my favorite words.  Mature right? ;) So that made it even more funny!  I just love working with these spirit children and learning from them.   I love Matthew 18: 2-6

2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

 5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

 6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

What a powerful set of scriptures isn't it?  I just love working with children, I can't say that enough.  I love my major.  I love being an advocate for children.  I love learning about their development.  I love spending my time thinking about fun things for them to do each day.  I love learning about simple things that that I never thought about before.  (Did you know butterflies make a chrysalis, not a cocoon? The story "The Hungry Caterpillar" teaches it wrong... pointless information, but its something I learned in preschool! :)) What a blessing it is to LOVE what I do, it really makes going to school more of a hobby then a chore! :)  

Craft day!

I see a theme going on here.... I think while babe is at work I get a little lonely and try to make it up with crafts!  That wouldn't be bad except for the fact that we have NO place on any of our walls or shelf's to put any more crafts.  I think I am addicted. All well as long as babe is working I am crafting :) The day started off with all of my supervisor friends (preschool) coming over and decorating our smocks for our last semester in the labs :(  I am so lucky to have so many great girls to work with, it makes going to school and working our butt's off so much easier!

I went a little button crazy but hey it was fun!  Now the trick is getting all the buttons to stay on from the hot glue so I don't have to sew them all on individually! 

I Love Preschool!!

Then I headed over to Ashley's for a little R&C (relaxation and crafts... I may or may not have just made that up...) And I got to see little adorable Abbi so that made it all worth it! :)  We decided to try for a new Valentines day craft, since we have no money I went cheap with just using things I already had around the house.  Ashley made adorable mod podge scrapbook letters that I might have to copy and make anyway (check it out HERE).  I am not totally finished yet but I will have the word LOVE spelled out, 1 letter on each block, and a heart on the last one!  I'm pretty excited about it, even though I have no idea where I am going to put it... But that's a challenge for another day! 

What do you think? For not being to crafty it was pretty easy... I guess I need to check pintrest for some more ideas before February comes (only 1 more Saturday in January to make something for Valentines day!!) Let me know if you have any easy/cheap ideas as well!