Moving day

And it wasn't even ours! Although, ours will come soon enough...

No, we were moving a TON of stuff into the new apartment that my mom and dad and Katie will be staying in and eventually will become Jeff's. I am so excited because it really is a great apartment and is in a great location, looks great and will work out so well.

But, before all that work and exhausting labor, Penny had her "girlie" appointment today. It was so sad to drop her off early in the morning! She was doing just fine until we pulled into the Petsmart parking lot. Then, she knew where she was going! I even have a scratch mark to prove that she knew exactly what was going on. It was so hard to hand her over to the nurse! She looked so tiny and I just wanted to hold her and take her home! All day long I thought about her and fretted over her.

During the day I had a workshop at school to go over the new textbook adoption. Last year we adopted a new curriculum, but it is TERRIBLE! None of the teachers in the district or in all the districts that adopted it like the way it is laid out. The lessons don't make sense, the kids don't get it, and we don't like it. Well, today we were introduced the new textbook adoption and we LOVE it! It is so nice because the Teacher Editions are easy to use, the kids' books are user friendly, there is lots of technology support, leveling, intervention, centers, absolutely everything you would need is already included, organized, and color coded! We were so happy...

Then, "THEY" drop the bombshell on us. We still have to use the old curriculum. "But it is very different" we point out... We are told to make it work and to use both. So now we have to take poorly written curriculum and very well-written curriculum and put it together to rewrite NEW curriculum. Stressful to say the least.

So, in a "blog"shell, that was my day... Penny, stress, labor.