Daily Reflections

  I am so exhausted...this will be a short post.  I just wanted to make an entry before time starts slipping away from me again. Craig texted early this morning and said that he and Amanda are getting divorced.  It's very sad.  This has been a long time coming...but it is still very heartbreaking.  I wish that I could do something, anything, for them.  I feel like all I can do is pray.  I know that Mom is there, just in another realm.  I wish more than anything that she were in this realm with us. I gave a talk in the Quartz Hill ward last week.  I didn't feel confident at all.  In fact, I keep ruminating on my mistakes.  I feel like every single day, every time that open my mouth, I say or do something that I regret.  ---------------------------------------------------- I wrote the above paragraphs on Sunday, then I fell asleep!  Ha ha.  It's currently Tuesday night and I'm going to quickly end this post. I felt insp...

 This week was busy! School started (with the students)!  It was really nice meeting my students.  I had a few "squirrels", students whom I will have to be a little more strict with, but for the most part, my students are really well behaved.  I'm proud of myself (for once) because I am really trying to get on top of classroom management this year.  I think that the strategies that I'm using this week are really going to be effective.  I'm so blessed to have the opportunity to have 72 students that I can get to know, develop relationships with, and hopefully influence their lives for the better for the one day a week that I get to have them in my class. We celebrated Bryce's  birthday today with Jon's parents and Darlene's family.  This is, hands down, the easiest and most tastiest cake on earth!  Bryce turned 13 on Thursday!  We gave him a guitar earlier on in the year so his actual birthday was low-key. Lizzie is so extremely talented!...