Goodbye 2012

Stole this from J.S.C. on FB. I don't know where she got it. 

You weren't a bad year. There were some really good times, some great trips and fun with family and friends. Looking back I didn't share as much of you with the blog as I did with 2011 and 2010. Sorry about that, but it felt as if I was really busy, but I didn't have much to say. I shared more with my scrapbook albums instead.

Looking ahead to 2013 (which begins in less than 90 minutes on the West Coast) I can hope for health and wisdom. Beginning the year with a broken foot seems to negate that first wish, but I look forward to ditching the crutches by the end of January. Wisdom takes many different forms. I have some tentative plans which, God willing, will come to fruition. If they don't, then....we'll see what 2014 brings.

Christmas

Here's a few photos from our holiday.

Christmas on Crutches

Yep. One last outing for a few last-minute things, trip over a curb and spend 3 hours in Urgent care yesterday. The final verdict after peering at the x-rays: a small fracture in my left foot. That means crutches for the next 4-6 weeks. It's not painful, but it's really, really inconvenient. I hated crutches 20 years ago, and I hate them now!

What I know to be true.....

Tonight I was blog surfing, and one link led me to another, and another and finally I found this:



Sarah Kay performed her spoken word poetry at the 2011 TED Conference. It's well worth the 18 minutes of watching time. But for those who don't wish to/or don't have time to watch, Sarah is a poet and a teacher. She assigns lists to her students, and those lists become poems.

So....This is what I know to be true right now:

Teaching middle school is hard.
I don't think I'm very good at it.
I'd go back to teaching high school in a heart beat.
Winter Break will be too short
January is a crappy month
I don't want to have a birthday in February.
I don't want to be "that" old.
Life has not gone according to plan
That makes me sad.
I'm working on acceptance.
Maybe someday I'll get there.

Tree 2012

It's a little bigger than last year. Okay...a lot bigger than last year.