Once a month blogger?

Ya know, if I were to blog about the things that I think about, or documentaries we watch and my subsequent thoughts or reactions, or politicaL issues, I'd blog 10 times a day. However, this last month has been unbelievably crazy.

I finished my practicum with an A and a huge card signed by all my students (one little grade one girl said I was "buttiful" hehehe!
Loved the work, loved the students but I was often frustrated by the hinderances created by parents who weren't willing to recognize the struggles their children were having and allow me to intervene. *sigh*

I finished my last sociology class, Children in Society, also with an A, it was such an amazing class! I learned so much valuable stuff. How kids become resiliant and how as a teacher, I can promote resiliancy in kids I come in contact with.
This was such a huge huge thing for me. I often come home with an aching heart over the things some of my kids go through, went through and face. The question I always ask is "how can I stand in the gap for them?"
This course had a lot of great ways of not only standing in the gap for kids, but also how to ferry them across to the "other side" ie: adult hood, being strong, creative and able to withstand challenges they face.
When one person endeavors to make a child feel that they are loved and accepted unconditionally, that person has given the child a hand hold to grasp so that when those horrible situations feel overwhelming to them, they have a better chance to climb out of it with less of the damage sticking to them.
IF we teach children styles of thinking which are positive, as well as model posative thinking styles, we are also creating resiliant children in that they can cognitively see the situation for what it really is, and deal with it according to "glass half full" mentality!
* I think of you, Char, when I talk about this, you are the most posatively outward thinking person I've ever met!*

The little girls just got back from 2 weeks with their dad. They're exhausted! Jaala slept till 11am today!
We camped outside in the yard in a our new tent, just us girls, I had a great time! I blew up an air matress for the adventure (my old fat self doesn't love sleeping on the ground any more!) and Faron wondered out loud how long I'd have the thing to myself....it was a small single matress....I wasn't even asleep yet before I was sharing it with the little blonde, half way through the night, I had both of them. hee heeh hehe!

So big news. Faron and I finally just said, fuck it, we're getting married on July 20th. So yeah.

Out side in a park, in the after noon of the 20th, we're saying our vows and blending our families.
Just a few family members and close friends, and a pot luck bbq afterward.