HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

WOW! What an ending to this year. Back in the classroom, teaching 4-yr-olds, has allowed me time to spend with my sweet, baby girl who just turned 7! 

My Oklahoma State Cowboys had an AWESOME season and will top it off with a win at the Fiesta Bowl on January 2nd.  GO POKES!!!!!

I have a renewed desire to start writing again. I don't know where that will lead or how long it will take to get there, but my ADD brain needs some sort of outlet, so off I go into the novella world.



I want to dedicate this blog more to the activities and adventures in my classroom as well as to our family adventures. In addition, I want to determine how to "monetize" the blog in an attempt to supplement this teacher's salary.  So, to get that started, I will need to start my lesson planning for the new year.

As for today, it's laundry, cleaning house and gearing up for a family New Year's celebration complete with snack foods prepared from recipes in my new "Hungry Girl" and "Biggest Loser" cookbooks; the hubs will head to the bedroom to read and Hannah and I will probably watch a movie or two.  I'll ring in the new year by watching the ball drop around the world and top it off with finishing story #2 in "An Amish Christmas" novella collection.

Tomorrow is a new year and a new start. I go in hopeful and anxious to see what 2012 will bring.

May you all have a safe celebration and

most prosperous,

blessed 2012!