School, School, and More School

Wow, where has the past month gone? Oh yeah... school is back in full swing. This year I have a total of 30 students (I have two different part time classes). It was not my first choice to teach the part time classes, however, a huge drop in numbers has changed our Kindergarten classes a bit. I am just super thankful to still have a class, even though my work load is double. My two groups are really great kids and I seem to have some great parents too.
For those of you who may not know, I am also in school. I just started grad school about 3 weeks ago. I am attending Walden University (all online learning) and working towards my master's degree in Reading and Literacy. It has been going well so far, it is lots of work and me being diligent and getting home from work at 4:30 to start my homework.
Week 2 of grad school (last week), I sat in our office at the desk attempting to write my 1st grad paper. I new exactly what I wanted to say, however, before I began writing I needed to set up my document in APA (American Psychological Association) style, which includes numerous things, too many to even explain. But for a few: special margins, headers, page numbers, perfect grammer, citations, etc. I had several books laying around me to assist in this task. A half hour into setting up my title page and headers, I was complaining out loud to myself because I was frustrated and didn't know what I was doing. 1 1/2 hours later Marty came home to me laying on the floor with my head down crying. I haven't been this frustrated since high school when I was asking my daddy advice on homework and we got into little tiffs trying to figure things out. How was this happening again? I took a break to make dinner, apologized to my oh so patient husband, and sat down for attempt number two.
Tears, yelling, what for? My paper took me only 50 minutes to actually write. I submitted it two days early and successfully got an A- on my first grad paper. I feel pretty good. Well for now...paper number two is on the agenda for tomorrow:)

Labor Day Weekend

We packed up the truck, met our friends John and Sarah and their two kids Jack and Maggie and headed over Kebler Pass. It is a 2 hour drive over the pass and then all of a sudden we were in Crested Butte, CO.

Mt. Crested Butte

Me and my little buddy Jack. Jack was in my Kindergarten class last year, and now we are good friends with his family.

Our beautiful view from our campsite. We love, love, love camping in CO!

Roasting marshmallows with Maggie, Jack already inhaling the smore I made him:)

It was a great weekend to be away with our friends. We just hung out around the campsite, ate lots of good food, and bummed around the little mountain town.