Adjectives!

so, I think I am going to do a mini lesson on Adjectives...I found a cool book "Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?" By: Brian P. Cleary that I will read aloud and then go from there! I am pretty excited and I love going to Barnes and check out the books and thinking about how to make learning fun for kids! I am thinking it's a good lesson for 2nd graders.

I know I will never be as creative as you girls, but I am glad I have such amazingly talented friends to discuss this with.

love you all

Just a little something to make you smile

So I've been waiting to post something until I felt a little less bitter about the world. It's taken a while, but things have finally started settling down to a place where I feel like getting up in the morning and going back to work and enjoying it again. The mental shift I had to make has been the hardest. I really had convinced myself that I wouldn't be returning to school in the fall, and having to adjust back to caring about work, lesson plans, prepping, cleaning my room, etc. have been difficult. Justin and I are coaching our girls varisty team, and it has been a good distraction -I really have been enjoying hanging out with the girls and getting to know them better, plus the time with Justin has been great & I've gotten to see Sarah more when she comes to practice with us. Today the team is going to go see a PBU/BBC game near Philly- which I'm excited about. This Wednesday, I'm taking my art tutorial kids (10th-12th graders) to D.C. to the National Gallery of Art and I've made up a scavenger hunt when we're there. So- lots of things to be excited about in the near future.

New Year's Resolution- getting knocked up again. :o)

NY Teaching Fellowship update!

Hey girls. so, thank you all for keeping me in your prayers...I am advancing to the interview process of the teaching fellowship...they must have loved my application! yay. so, I am not sure how many people advance, but I am pretty excited.

So, I have to come up with a simple sample lesson...they give an example of difference between similes and metaphors and I have about 5 mins...super easy, but I thought maybe you guys might have fun ideas since you are the experts...any tips would be appreciated. I think I am going to schedule my interview for either the 29th or the 30th of this month...the other dates are too soon!

OK. well, love you all and i will talk to you soon.

xo

my life update

Ok. so, I was talking to Karisa today and was chastised for not posting despite Jen's threats...so, here it goes.

I am applying for the New York Teaching fellowship, which basically means they will pay me to teach right away (after a summer intense seminar without pay) while I get my master in education. I didn't realize I might want to teach until I started talking to Jen, Megan, & Allison about all the fun times (wink wink)they have making fun of their kids. just kidding.

So, then I figured I would try and really pursue becoming a makeup artist...i was talking to a few peeps in NYC and they said they would defiantly refer me to clients and people of interest! My friend Liliana is a hair stylist and she is always looking for a reliable makeup artist for jobs and shoots and what have you!

Work is same old...i think i need to do yoga or something to relieve some of my stress!

anyways...that is about it. I have to clean my room now! pce.

New Phone!!

I got a new phone and that means a new number:917 434 8458

xoxo
Carissa

A bunch of things you already know...

Hey Girls! Since Jen threatened us, I am updating you as well. There is not too much to update you about, but I do not want to incur Jen's wrath. (we have all witnessed it--not pretty.) First, my sister and her baby Savanna are doing well. Savanna has gained some weight and seems to be healthy. Please keep them in your prayers in the months to come. Also, Joe just got an internship working as a chaplain at a nursing home near our house. That is a big relief for us since he has a certain amount of field credit hours he has to accomplish in order to graduate next December. Also, my dad has been out of work for a year now. He is pretty discouraged about the situation and the constant rejections. I'll be back in class at the end of January and we are very much looking forward to finishing our last year here so we can move back north--where it's normal. Here is a pic of Joe and I Christmas eve:

You girls are in my thoughts and prayers. Miss you!

I'm Updating for the New Year (and if you know what's good for you, you will too!)

Hello Girls! I haven’t given a real update in a while and seeing how it’s the first of the year, I thought I’d catch you up a little on what’s been going on here in CT. The real answer is…not very much. Life goes ever on and on with all the good and the bad rolled in. Here are some highlights (if you can even call them that) of the past couple of months:

1. Micah left his job at the Huntington Chapel. This I’m pretty sure I told you all about. He’s currently working for friends of ours doing screen-printing and will be going to Gordon Conwell starting in late January. He’ll be commuting twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday), three or so hours both ways. He’s also in cahoots with a friend from the Chapel who is in cahoots with some rich people who are funding the flipping of a house that will start in the spring or summer. An offer was just accepted on a house so Micah’s already scheming about that. Other things about Micah – he’s buying a 1984 VW Rabbit that is diesel with the hopes of converting it to bio-diesel and running it off vegetable oil. We’ve become somewhat environmentally conscious. I’m not sure how that happened, but he’s terrible excited about it. I want to kick myself every time he talks about it, but that’s marriage J
2. We are attending a new church. It’s called Church of the Apostles and I heard about it through a variety of students at school whose families attend. It’s an Anglican church (so Episcopal only not really) and it’s INCREDIBLE. The bishop and his wife are amazing teachers and we have been fed more there in the few weeks we’ve been attending than in the past couple of years at our old church. We are truly being blessed and are so happy to attend there. God teaches me so much every week with each new sermon.
3. Speaking of God…let’s talk about learning the same lesson over and over and over and over. Anyone else dealing with this, or am I the only thick-headed freak around here? Accepting God’s timing and trusting Him has been my perpetual lesson. Long story but Micah and I have been trying to get pregnant for a little over a year. Some of that time we couldn’t try because with our trip to Ghana one of the vaccinations you had to get you can’t try to get pregnant for six months. Sooooo…it’s been a lot of trying, waiting, praying, peeing on sticks, crying, etc. My emotions have been crazy-go-nuts. One minute I’m fine and accepting of God’s will, the next I’m pissed and yelling a lot. It’s fantastic. I know…I KNOW He has a plan. Very slowly it seems, I’m learning to accept exactly what that means for my life. I get it…it just sucks sometimes. You understand J

OK – so that’s all that’s exciting in my life. Work and school is ever the same. I hate my life and want to quit my job but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

I leave you with some pictures from Christmas (top is Micah, me and our dog Simon. Micah made us all matching hoodies for Christmas. We're losers. The bottom is Micah, me, Carissa, Zola, Amy, Allison and her boyfriend Josiah). Sorry for the extensive rambling. You should consider yourselves lucky it’s not way longer considering how long I’ve not posted.