grades

so my grades finally posted.... 4 A's a C and a B..I am a little disapointed cuz that C brought my GPA down to a 3.71 but oh well not too bad for taking 19 credits in a semester... Im glad it's over!

I met with my teacher for student teaching and she is way amazing.. I cant believe I start next monday! AHH! but it will be okay i am positve!

Downside...i think that I might have to make this blog private now tho that im going in the school....Schools dont like your personal buisnees floating around on the internet..so yea I will have to figure that all out but i will keep everyone posted do not worry!

what a week what a week!(yea it's long)

Okay I am going to start back..way back..back at...Tuesday! mostly because I dont know what I did monday...........


Oh yea monday the girls from my class came over and we did an online orientation thing on skype...which is pretty cool..but ANYWAYS!



So Tuesday I had a nail appointment at 8am so I was to leave the house at 7:30 to be there on time...well I woke up at 7:25 and was like this AHHH! so i ran grabbed the monkey and flew all the way to 51st and Northern....just to arrive 5 minutes late and find out that my nail lady Leslie(who is amzing and I have gone to since 8th grade) had accidently overbooked and she already had a lady in the chair..a little bummed but sorta greatful that I didnt have to have Petyl sit there for an hour...I left and rescheduled for 1pm.



So with HOURS to kill I went to walgreens and to Michaels and then got a crazy urge to go to the mall. Baby in tow we made our way to Arrowhead..where beacuse of the early hour was pretty mellow. I just browsed for a while enjoing the chirstmas feel of the mall and then did I realize I HAVE A MERVINS GIFT CARD AND THEY ARE CLOSING SOON! So now having an actual purpose for the mall I picked up the pace...I got to the Mervins Peninsula of the mall and was HORRIFIED to see the gates were shut and the store empty....te lights however were on and with a little investigation(looking over the edge) I saw that the Down stairs was still open with a sign that said 2 DAYS LEFT. So I tried to make my way down there...now I say tried because I could not take the mervins elevator it being closed and then the mall elevator was closed and I didnt want to go in Dicks because I never been in there and was worried about where an elevator might be in that store so I opted for macys...well it took me like 10 minutes to find the macys elevator! that is crazy right! and brieson can vouch for this because during this excursion I called and woke him up..



anyways I finally made my way to mervins...and it was SOOO EMPTY! only like i would say 1/4 of the downstairs was even open and that was like very spread out racks of clothes and random items...it was crazy!!! at first I was discouraged and couldnt really see anything i wanted..but then the gift card inspired me and I got a dress, shirt, and two cardigan-ish sweaters for the classroom all for 26$ WOOT WOOT yeah it was exciting...






















So then I went to get uncle B to go to Target and shop some more...and as I entered the neighboorhood I saw the must sad thing EVER! this poor mama dog with her chest like FULL of Milk was running around DRIPPING her milk all over..and ugh I wanted to help her but she looked kinda mean(and I mean I can relate....that wouldnt feel good) and I am sure she wanted her little puppies and ugh it was so sad I tried to call her and see if she would be happy but no she growled so i had to give up and drive away but it was SO sad



















Then me Brieson Kambren and Petyl went to target and finished stocking presents there.....and I dropped the three of them back at the Rowlans and went to get my nails did.




That night we all went bowling and I must say I was ASTONISHED to see Brieson drinking a BEER! of all the rowlans he was the last one I would expect I cought him in the act..and you know he tried to hide it but I got pictures.....



























no but for real bowling was way fun Petyl didnt like it so much I think it was just a tad over stimulating for her pretty head..and maybe the sleepyness was setting in too... OH ! and I also was going to say that I saw an ex boyfriend there which was weird..I wish trustan had been there!!! erg..but oh well it was still funny to see his face when he saw me HAHA!


anyways way we played one game and I took Kam home ...it was fun for me tho and now I want to go again!

Christmas Eve we went to church but it was so packed there was standing room only and the overflow room was liek crazy so weleft and didnt see service... I was real sad cuz that is my favorite service all year long and it just makes christmas to me...but I let that depresion disapear and enjoyed a night of movies games and food back at the Rowlans house. I went to bed that night still feelin bummed that we missed church and that I didnt talk to my parents(cuz we only saw them at church for a sec. and then I couldnt get a hold of them after and whatever..) and cuz trustan doesnt really like christmas ..or a lot of things...and it just didnt feel christmassssy and i was sad..i went to bed sad and felt dumb about it but i just did ya know.


Chirstmas morning I woke up happy and excited for the day I got miss Petyl up and we wrapped presents(well she ran in to my feet in her walker) and then we yelled at trustan to get movin and finally made it to the Rowlans. we opened presents and had cinnamin rolls and watched Elf....I got such amazing presents(finally a real cammera so I can take millions of pics of my lil nugget now!) and it was just a fun morning!



After we went over to my parents house and we opened presents and had turkey and some burnt rolls(a tradition with my mom LOL!)
















then we watched a movie(which was lame..and really weird but my parents liked it LOL) then we played TABOO which is my FAVORITE game ever and I am AWESOME at it...we played for like an hour and a half it was so fun! but yea then we eventually packed up and headed home..



When we got home trustan told me he got me something(which he was anti this year especially) and told me where to find it....and I promissed not to tell anyone"(because it might display a softer side of my beastly man husband) but it was exactly what I wanted and so beautiful and romantical and yea



Today I think was the best Christmas I have had in ... I dont even know prolly ever I feel like I have the most amazng family the little three of us..the rowlan side and the young side...It's crazy like I have always felt like me and trustan were ment to be together like i just i dunno it's a long story ut i just truely feel like he was meant for me and me him...and the more our families get close i feel like it's even true that his family waswas meant for me...like each person brings out a diferent quality.. and i dunno this is gushy stuff i guess but i just.. I feel so blessed and couldnt ask for anything more!


Merry Christmas Everyone and Happy Birthday Jesus























Good night!










OH and P.S. My mom got me a bunch of clothes and stuff okay and she got me size 7 jeans and ya they fit my lil bootie so nice and i just had to share because size 7 jeans have not fin my bootie since I was a sophmore in high school WHAT WHAT!


Go breast milk-HAHA

HAIR HAIR HAIR

So my bestie Sam is going to school for Cosmotology and has been for 7 months now she will graduate in May and she loves it! She goes to school monday thru friday from 8am until 4:30(except on thursdays she stays late). Then she rushes all the way to Anthem to work in a Salon with this crazy owner who treats Sam very poorly. She does not want to continue at the Salon but she feels she is out of options because of her school schedule.

I came up with a plan for Ms. Sam..but I need YOUR HELP! She needs to get her name around anyways so why not get out there....

She is willing to come to YOU in your house and cut color style anything for SOO CHEAP!

here is a list of some of her services....

shampoo cut - $8

shampoo cut blowdry- $9

color - $15

full highlights - $25

Sam is amazing at hair..yes she is still learning technique and things but she has done my hair and I love it! she also has many other refrences upon request.

I know there has been a couple hair cutting fiascos within my blog followies and I want to put a stop to this insanity! here is a nice amazing future Hair Wonder! waiting to make your dreams(with your hair) come true!

It could even be a gift for someone you know! Think about it a day of hair pampering for your dear granny or a hair party with all your friends

okay so the last part got a little cheesy but lets keep it real my friend sam does a great job for way cheep....and getting hair done is expensive! She is willing to come to your house and I also said my house is available. She does kids, guys and gals and will work around you.

finished!

Wow I am done! i finished all the stupid assigments and I am done. ...And not just done for now i mean i am done with classroom classes..i mean i have student teaching but that is different... I AM DONE BEING A STUDENT(cross your fingers and please pray because there is one grade i am not so sure on!)..in the literal sense I feel you never stop learning but yea anyways

Tonight I went to a party for Alison(a girl in my cohort who is doing her student teaching in germany) she graduated today since she will not be here for graduation in May. It is so crazy! us girls have gone through so much! like to me it's crazy cuz growing up i always wanted to go away to university and join a sorrority or like have dorm friends etc....and i wanted to have all these girls and I would become like my best friends and we would all like get our degrees and then meet the perfect guy and all be in eachothers weddings and yea blah blah blah.

Well when I met Trustan my whole life plan changed and I decided I did want a young family etc and I just never thought I would have the college experience in my head. And then I met these 7 amazing ladys (bobbie will always be apart of the cohort!) and I know we will all go our own way but some of us will keep in touch and it will be amazing. I really didnt think I cared about finishing school..and i just felt like whatever but it really is awesome when you acomplish something and even more awesome when you have a group of women all acomplishing it together! it's crazy! so crazy

I will miss everyone so much!

Petyl's blog

so my kid up and started a blog behind my back........so u should prolly check it out

I HATE HATE HATE HATE SCHOOL!

ugh!
so i have one more stupid week of classes and I want to QUIT!i mean right now at this verymoment i do not care what my grade is i will take it and go......

Assigments to be done...
Monday: Moc Interview(that was not on sylabis!) with up to date resume. Also Practicum Portfolio(my in the classroom stuff from this semester)
Tuesday: Literacy Final(online...so big waste of time yes!). Post my 2 book shares on Vista(the stupid NAU online thing for ONLINE CLASSES even tho this is a real class i am taking....i still have to post online...ugh so LAME!)
Wednesday:Spanish Final. Spanish Composition. Spanish Exam make up(possibly..).
Thursday: Social Studies Lesson Plan due and present ALSO! Special Ed Final (have no idea what it is!). Special Ed. Assessment Assigment.
Friday: 8-10 page Latin Humanities Paper that i havent started yet and do not know what to write on and think is so SO SOOOOO stupid along with the teacher! Taskstream review for Practicum.

so yes one might think of just start on this crud and get it going BUT I CANT! i do not know what is wrong with me my brain is broken! and really i just could care less.....really i am only worried about the Essay i have to write on Latin America...I choose the topic of women/catholic church/mexico(long story but i had to be SPECIFIC when choosing so this is what came about) I wrote a stupid ABSTRACT for it and the input my teacher gave me just confused me

here is my abstract cuz i want u to se how stupid it is

"Christianity is a religion where people are supposed to love the sinners of the world this does not mean they are to condone the sin. In today’s society people are becoming more and more liberal in their thinking. This on its own may have some very important contributions however from a religious perspective one must stick to their morals. The Catholic Church is not discriminatory or inconsiderate when standing up for issues that directly show their beliefs. Women have specific roles and purposes within the church. The women that feel their rights are in question are women living for a society of today not a society of Christ. The Catholic Church should not change their moral position in order to fit in with a society of today."

My teacher wrote that writing about religion is fine but that i need to focus more on ideas,values and cultural perspective. I dont really know what she means and ugh so yea i suck! so now i am confused....procrastinating and about to cry cuz i am a baby and just do not want to do it!

so instead of dealing with this now at 10:42pm i am going to make trustans lunch and go to bed! WOW i am amazing right!



okay this was all a ventful post so I hope you liked it k bye

no...not some crazy drugs....

Yes, i know this picture must look like I was participating in some crazy drug party but i must tell u this is not the case. You see really I was just participating in some amazing natural ear candeling. You see my friend Sam had an ear ache and I told her about these ear candles i had seen my mom do before and then we were off! So on the way back from costco we stopped at the local HiHealth and bought some ear candles and ear oil. Then that night around 11pm we started! i did sams first and oh man they were amazing! i accedently cut the candle a little to close and flung burning paper on to sams head!.....but no worries blew that bad boy off and no harm was done! then sam did my ears and voilla we were wax free!

the following night happened to be A Christmas Story night at the Rowlan home. I preceded to tell them the adventure and it seemed to all start again. Stacey this time was off to the local HiHelath and I began candeling away. First I did Brieson (cuz i think shelly was a little skeptical!) then i did shelly. Both of them are now cured of there wax! Shelly can even hear out of a non-hearable ear!!!! maybe this will help her singing voice for the recital huh Tausha!....not that she needs any help!!!

Anyways today I finished off our box of ear candles with my hubby Trustan...also a skeptical Rowaln. he believes it really doesnt do anything and the smoke makes all the gorgeous waxy chunks form in the candle.

maybe you should check it out and write your opinion!

this last picture is my own personal ear waxed candle....thought you might like to take a peek!

also note that my writing today was in a nice ear waxy yellow for youto get the full affect!

if the diaper feels full.....dont push it against you..

SO! saturday or sabado whichever language u prefer it was a plan to go to michaels to get petyl a stocking and decorate it etc. then i was to go to target and get the rest of the christmas stuff i needed and then to frys for salsa stuff!!!!! so i picked up brieson and was suddenly hit with a hugemongous headache like ugh it was like death! and we got to michaels and went in and i was just carrying PJ cuz i thought this would be best and as we walked in to the store i was like "hmm petyls diaper seems full" i though i will just change it before we go into target and then i was distracted by the stocking choices i was going to make when i felt a squish...looked down to see i was now covered in beautiful Pea and Oatmeal POOP! and so was my little nugget! so we had to abort mission and head to the car. Now the situation was so out of control for a minute iwas not sure what to do. We opened the passenger door and bega to assess petyl (the priority at the moment) we carefully slipped her out of her clothing and wiped her down. i shuffld through the diaper bag and found some sweats and a lil hoodie for her. she was good to go and brieson held her while i then had to wipe myself down and gather the poop smeared articles. We then ran into target and i had to buy a shirt. ( now i know most would probably abort the whole mission and go home BUT i truely think it would have been more work to leave the store and attempt to doit again nother time! so i bought a white shirt and changed in the bathroom at target and we went along with our plan....we just left out the michaels because i didnt want to go back in there. IT was a pretty amazing mission and i am sad u missed it!

SALSA TIME!

So Brieson and I are going to be whipping up some of my famous Young Family Salsa

- Salsa de Joven -

We plan on bottling it up and selling it out(free samples will be available...dont buy it till u try it!)

it would be a great gift or side dish during these wonderful holidays

SO i will be posting more of the who what where when why and how later today

Tara McMurdie!

ATTENTION ATTENTION

SO TARA i was going through my junk email and deleting like crazy as usual when one of the 152 emails caught my eye....i saw ur name Tara McMurdie BUT before i could stop the compulsive deleting it was to late ur email was lost forever! u cannot undelete junk mail on hotmail! this is just not allowed i guess.... SO if you could please resend that..SORRY!


In other news ....

Turkey Day was BEAUTIFUL! uhm i love food! and today we are having turkey number two at my familys house so i am excited!

I will post more later with pics of this fabuloso weekend



HASTA

arrivals,crafts and twilight!

So this week has been pretty good good!

I got SOO much homework done and think i am finally on track..two more weeks(thats what i keep telling myself)!

wednesday my friend Sarah popped out her lil man Skyler he was 6lbs 15.5oz and 21in long and oh so HARRY! haha

Thursday both of my classes got canceled so that was pretty amazing that i didnt have to go to school!

Friday auntie Carissa came home and lil PJ was oh so excited!

Saturday was craft day at shellys church and carissa and i made these amazing magnetic boards and tiles and they trned out beautiful(which reminds me that we have to make the other one for grandma rowlan(or maybe it was grandma ellis?) but yea we should make it and i want to make one for my mom...a CAT one! hahha(u had tobe there hahaaa)

Sat night we went and saw twilight at AMC 30 and it was ehh....it was good. I mean I LOVE LOVE the books and so really nothing can compare with ones own mind but still it was pretty good! there was some cheesy lines and effects but it was still okay... i just will never forget when edward said, "hold on tight you little spider monkey" HHHAHAHAA so lame but now my favorite hahaha

OH but the preview before the movie for The Unborn ahh that looks so scary! i was like creeped out after that

So Sunday(today) trustan woke me up and said to make pancakes...so i showered and went to work on some chocolate chip pancakes

(just in case you need tips for chocolate chip pancakes see video)
for my spoiled husband just to go back up stairs to find him sleeping! ugh but he came and ate and then i got ready for church and then we were too late(well trustan was like not ready at all and my hair was still wet) so we didnt go! and i was erked at that but yea so then i did the laundry and read some of my book and Petyl by the way was sleeping this WHOLE time. she had woken up at 7 to eat and then sleept untill NOON when i went in there and woke her lil bootie up.

then we went over to my parents house and practiced some crawling exercises and then came home and I made some cookies.

Then I made some veggies for dinner at the rowlans which i was worried about because it was just randomness from the fridge BUT! i must say when we went to dinner they were pretty good!

so yea we hug out at the rowlans and ate and talked and laughed way to much(i swear everytime we all get together for dinner it is so hard to eat because i laugh so much and then water and food almost comes flying out my nose and mouth every second! it is pretty dangerous!)

and now the babies are sleeping and i am up writing a blog about nothing


so now i am off to attempt to finish the last twilight book

LATES

feeding baby fun

so first of all(i think i say this a lot ...i like to start that way i guess..it can be my trade mark!)

Anyways

So first of all I must appologize because i feel i have not given a great post lately....i mean an amazing thought out post..they have been pretty thrown together and lame so i must assure you this one will be interesting and yea okay but it is long...

INTRO

As a first time mamacita i have been learning SO much. it is so amazing and rewarding to know that i am taking care of this beautiful little nugget..but it is also SO SO SO scarry sometimes to think of all these things I have to do and DO RIGHT! ugh so with the feeding thing I really tried to listen and learn and learn and learn..

breastfeeding... I was so set on doing this I really wanted to be able to give that if nothing else to Petyl. i think that if possible it is best and now after 6 months of doing it i feel even stronger about it. sometimes i am not gonna lie your mind wanders and your like oh man those things are like doing something and you feel crazy for a minute (and like when your beautiful little nugget looks over and smiles...not at you..but at THEM..you really feel crazy!) but then you feel good like God's purpose is in action and that is awesome!

*side note- i went to this breatfeeding clinic once and there was this poster that had a mother feeding her baby and then all around her were different animals feeding there babies and it said something like "you cant get more natural than this" and i admit i kinda laughed cuz it's soo cheesy right but i mean it is true it is how God made us and there is nothing weird about it...

**side note 2-i must say tho i do think it is weird to just whip it out and do the buisness without no cover or anything i mean yea no

THE NEXT STEP(getting ready for cereal)

so then after i feel i mastered that last concept i felt safe and secure....and scared to move on LOL i really wanted to do things right i didnt want to rush my little girl for selfish reasons(so that i can sleep through the night) or give her allergies or whatever all those people tell you ya know. So i waited...i asked the doc. and waited some more. I listend to all his signs to look for and waited for ALL of them - the interest in food, the putting everythin in mouth, the drooling, the sitting up, sitting up reaching out and not falling over....then when she was sitting up and sneezed without falling over(and about to be 6 months old [TODAY SHE IS!]) i dived right in.....well sort of... I told Trustan today was the day and we were going to do it. I took all that doc advice and passed it on to him to go to the store "get some rice cereal and some infant juice because you mix the juice instead of breast milk because in order for iron to absorb the body needs Vit. C" so the now informed papa went to buy the goods(and call me when he got there so i could reiterate all the requirements).

LETS TRY IT(eating cereal!!!)

then that night when he returned we made a family diner date for petyl and got started. I read the little cylindar thing of rice(which trustan spent and extra $4 on for the DHA- he called it the supper brain cereal). I read and read and could not find any directions of how one goes about this. it ust said to mix in to desired consitancy. Now i do have common sense so i went with that and we just made a little bit and pretty runny for the first expiremental stage.

so yea she tried it and made crazy faces and was so stinkin cute and yes it was amazing!

day one....hmm i dunno bout this stuff

day 2 - still thinking

what do you think...AHHH

happy girl - give me more!

STILL SCARED!-Research Mode

so tonight was day 4 on rice cereal and little bug has jumped on board very quickly SHE LOVES IT! so then i was still worried well how much do we feed this beast? how often? then what do we do? so with all these questions running through my head i laid little girl down and ran for the internet search engine! i have looked at everything and i mean EVERYTHING. i first went to just the gerber website..and then the parenting magazine website and then i found the American Academy of Pediatrics website

but my favorite which i found most helpful and most useable was this http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ I was actually looking for like a chart to go by on what and when baby should eat but they just have so much on here!

THE PLAN

So after reading through and thoughts i have had for a long time about feeding little beauty i really have concluded i want to try and give the most natural and organicness to her. that website had all these little recipes for baby food and what the veggie or fruit does for them and all that but as i was reading (and taking notes...lots of notes!) i began to realize that some of these things i am just not going to do...for example the squash recipe....

1. Cut acorn, hubbard, or butternut squash in half, scoop out seeds2. Place an inch of water in a baking pan, then place squash halves "face" down in the pan. Check on water level while baking3. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 40 minutes or until the “shell/skin” puckers and halves feel soft then scoop squash “meat” out of the shell4. Place squash "meat" into your choice of appliance for pureeing and begin pureeing. 5. Add water as necessary to achieve a smooth, thin consistency.6. You can also peel the squash, scoop out the seeds and then cut into chunks and boil/steam until tender (like when boiling potatoes for mashed potatoes) then follow steps 4 and 5

im not going to bake something for 40 minutes just to mush it up and feed the lil one. i know i just wont do that. so from reading i found there are these organic baby foods now too.... i am going to do my best to give petyl organic...and as much like fresh things as realisticaly possible. I have a little baby food masher thing to try and make as much at home as i can. I just want to give the best i can ya know

EXCITED! and scared still LOL- am i a crazy mom

i dont know i am just excited like SO excited to have took all this in and learned. Like i think before i was just so uneducated on the topic and i felt like unconfident but i feel better now i feel ready to do this LOL!

there is one more thing tho that makes me nervous...AM I A CRAZY MOM? i mean do all moms start out excited and like gung ho about being healthy and then in 5 years am I just going to be throwing french frys at my babies?? I would like to think that I try and keep this healthy ness going i feel that I am pretty healthy (aside from my need for baked goods) and I dont think there is anything wrong with a french fry here and there....but am i just crazy do i got it all wrong is my plan...CRAZY?

FOLLOWERS

ugh i know i dont really blog for weeks and then i lay down another big mama but give me advice or just commentary thoughts(brieson) and yea i will appreciate it much!

dominos online delivery

So right now I was like hey i want pizza and i do not even care i want it NOW! so i went to dominos.com to do the online ordering cuz that is easier than having to talk to anyone! but yea so i placed my order and this thing poped up on my screen . it is called the dominos pizza tracker...see picture

so what this nifty contraption does is it tells you every detail of the making of your pizza. and the time so like underneath the thing would say YOU GOT IT ON THE WAY: Angela put your order in the oven at 9:05PM.... it is kinda hard to explain but anyways then it came on and said our pizza was being dilevered by Fatmire and that name made me laugh but then a cute old man came and i felt bad for laughing but anyways the pizza was AMAZING and you must order online from them so you can experience the amazing pizza tracker THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT

whew it has been a while

i guess not many exciting things have happened lately..this is sad!

I did get my hair cut and collored by my amazing amiga Sam..you can find more information about her life at http://www.samanthatrenkle.blogspot.com/. Anyways i turned out soo good and i love love love it!

I skipped school for like two weeks so i could do homework this was exciting and i am pretty much cought up now i just need to get ahead..the goal for the weekend!

In the classroom things have been crazy as usual. i think i am getting used to all the little monsters in there..i really feel bad for them because they really cannot learn that much when they havent been given the tools to know how to learn in class...ya know. like the teacher needs to lay it down and never did so theyre crazy. I had a little moment in my head on wednesday when they ere getting lined up for lunch. I looked at the wild beasts in line and thought 'i can do this...and i can do it better...' this made me excited. excited for a classroom of my own to turn little beasts in to well behaved educated little beasts lol. it was a good moment!

big news for the new job i was working....i got fired! well i mean not really fired our schedules just didnt work so much and ugh i am relieved. i mean i didnt want to turn in down cuz the extra money would be nice but it is SOOOO far! and i just wasnt into it ya know! so this is better. i will just pick up hours now and then until student teaching and it will work out.

well this is all for now... a borin update i know and i appologize i will try and find something exciting to write about soon! but now that i gave my self bed time(for 10:30pm) i must go and sleep! so good night.

oh and YAY for prop 102!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

google shmoogle!

first of all HALLOWEEN IS LAME now...or just people are i dunno we only had 2 trick or treaters! and i missed them both! that is so stupid but yea! anyways that is not the reason for my post. but i guess it did lead to it ..you see i was pretty bored waiting for lil princess' and monsters that never came so after laying petyl down i was called to the computer like i usually am. nothing real intersting to look at so i decided to google my name. First of all when i googled my maiden name Christine Young all that comes up is a 19 year old canadian porn star. nothing on the real me. Then i googled Christine Rowlan and you know what came up first. BRIESONS BLOG! and then after that it tries to find Christine RowlanD but that is not me so i dont care. then when i scroll down a few i finaly see me on a face book link. but get this it is all in German. I know because there was a "translate this" button and i clicked it and it translated to english and it was my face book. isnt that strange....why does y facebook come up german? weird!

anyways that is all for now. I am going to read my twilight book whichever one it is.....buenas noches or good night

THE ROWLAN

Now I cam across this book about different families. a girl read it in class. and there are any mixed families, biracial, single parent, adopted etc. there was one completly caucasian family in the whole book. and whos family do you think it was???

its the ROWLANS! even forest is in this dang picture! I couldnt believe it. I would have shaed sooner but until recently my only two folowers were Brieson and Shelly and now I have 9 people(THANK YOU FOR JUMPING ON BOARD!) anyways i know that well all of you are either from the Rowlans or know them and can agree that this is their family.

I mean i did find a few errors that make the pic slightly unaccurate.

1-trustan would never have hair that long

2-brieson is younger than carissa

3 carissa is not a twin.

but really if you switched the boy and girl around it is a perfect match!

a little deep

so there is this video and it is soo good everytime i watch it i get chills it is very visual i guess ! just wanted to share

the classroom from HECK!

it's a long one!

Backround:

So in case no one knew I am a student at NAU distance learning at PVCC. I am going to school for Early Childhood Education which will enable me to teach preschool through 3rd grade. Each semester we have been required to do 45 observation hours in a classroom. We call this the "practicum". I am in my last semester of classess and starting in January I will begin student teaching (which is where i am actually like the teacher and she/he just watches me and helps etc..)

I really do love going in the classroom. It makes me feel like okay i do want to do this still! it makes writing essays and going to class all worth it. As soon as i hit the front office i get excited. Like the smell of playground sand puts me at ease. I feel at home and I really truely cannot wait to have my own class one day. HOWEVER, I know it will not always be easy and scary classrooms remind me of that!

Present:

So I started my practicum yesterday for this semester(i am somewhat of a procrstinator on these things..so i have to do 45 hours by Dec. 5) I was only in the classroom with students yesterday for an hour and then i did all my interview stuff with the teacher during prep. In just that hour I observed that this class did not have a very firm classroom managment plan in place. At one point the teacher was running after two students barking "if you want your jelly bean you better be good"

Today:

I was a little worried but excited because I always get excited when I go in the classroom! So today I started off again. I was determined to be positive and learn as much as I could! ugh but this class is CRAZY! so the teacher has centers (which i think are soo good for learning) but they were either not functioning or what i feel as developmentally inapropriate.

The listening center didnt work yet the teacher rotated kids there anyways. So i went to investigate all the tangled cords and headphones. I got everything back in order and the kids were on task.

Then I went to check out the writing center. Which was students sitting on the carpet writing their site words on white boards..none of them were really doing it or at least they didnt fully understand what they were writing.

Then the Individual work center caught my attention. The students were to fill in these little boxed letter spaces with the correct words...i dont know how to explain it unless i show you so here is a pic....do not laugh i made it in Paint! So anyways the idea was to fit the correct words in the boxes and then match with the pictures. I DO NOT THINK KINDERGARTE SHOULD BE DOING THIS! i mean most of them didn't understand that it actually made words they were just trying to fill in the boxes and draw lines. and the other half would just sit there and be like "I dunno". The teacher even looked up and said to me that if it's to hard they can flip the page and just color. BUT! when she had explained the centers to everyone she said "(AND I QUOTE!) The individual work center is for all my SMART students to do" I swear she said that so what am i suposed to say "oh dont worry kid i know you cant do it it's only for the smart students." NO! So I turned individual work in to a small group and we knocked it out..sorta.

So each time the centers were to switch I would go get the listening center up and running and then i would go to the individual work center to help them. It was kinda stressful and I havent even got to the good stuff yet!

So think back to my first visit yesterday when te teacher was running screamin about jelly beans. Well there are two students on individual contracts to help them with their discipline throughout the day(which is why they get jelly beans(I still do not think this is good but whatever..)if it worked great BUT IT DOES NOT!) so anyways these two are very cute and smart children BUT OMG do they need some discipline BADDDLY! so of course during math I am sat at a table with the two lovely boys wo are crazy and these two girls who really are okay just a little slower at the math. but all together itwas awful! they were all feeding off of eachother and it was whole group math so even though i was sitting with them it was suposed to be the teacher teaching. One boy sitting with the group was refusing to do his work. When I asked him to "show me how you can color in 5 red fish" he told me "NO, I am not doing it." Then I said that he had to do it or woud lose free time and he told me "You're not the boss of me" he also threw in that "I hate you" and proceded to throw his rubber braclet at my HEAD! so as you can see this was going so wonderful! the teacher came over to check on everyone and the girls were kind of making it through and she seemed to almost not even notice how bad the boys were being. I was a little overwhelmed mostly because it is hard when your just the helper and you dont really know where your line is in disciplining the students. UGH so i tried a few things and he eventually got up and was standing behind the teacher playing with her papers and acting out.

After math it was time for lunch.... WHEW!

I went to shellys to have lunch and break with Petyl. It did recharge me a little bit...

When I came back to school the kids were coming in from their specials and the boy(who hated me) came up and gave me a big sweaty hug....now you have to know i was thinking BIPOLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh whatever so they did there story and fun centers (again with the boy running to all different centers and the other boy crying in the middle of the room fo like 5 minutes before being taken to another classroom) then at the end during clean up uhm the boy that hates and loves me RAN i mean RAN out of the classroom! I didnt even see him but the teacher all of a sudden ran after him. Then the boy for the rest of the day continued to be crazy throwing his shoes getting up and moving a table in the middle of circle....it was WILD!

Now after this whole experience you have to be wondering about this teacher....she told me she has been a teacher for 12 years. And i knew this was in no way possible i mean if that had been happening for 12 years she would be dead literally. Turns out it is her second year in the classroom she had been a resource teacher so basically she dd a lot of one on one all day.

It really gave me a great visual of why building classroom managment is the most important thing and that it must be done right in the begining. I really feel for the teacher because she has good ideas and she is trying but failing horribly on the discipline end. I do look forward to going back just because it is always good to learn what not to do! but i must say i am a little nervous about bipolar boy....

hopefully one day i will be like Harry Wong(like the king of classroom managment) and this will never be an issue

a cute story about the day to end on:

a little girl came up to me and asked "are you a teacher or a mommy or a kid?"

I said, "Well I am going to be a teacher and I am a mommy too"

and she said "Oh I thought you were a kid."

Then all the other ones around me started whispering "Oh shes a mommy" and

another girl said "do you have a boyfriend"

I said, "Nope i have a husband tho."

then another girl asked "do you have a boy or a girl?"

"girl"

"what is her name"

"Petyl"

"Pedal is what you do on a bike!"

"No her name is petyl like a flower PETAL"

"OHHH, okay"

they were all SOO cute even Bipolar! I LOVE KIDS! even when they're crazy.....

correction correction

like 1000 posts ago mis-spelled in a thank you and that i not acceptable. I mean i always mis-spell but not in a thank you so....


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sorry

p.s. you can have my pumpkins (i have 4)

oh and p.s.s trustan wants Caseys number but thinks he has an old one or something...you should tell im to call trustan

THE PREFORMANCE!

so last night Sam and I again took a chance at the community center dance class...this time we brought reinforcments..well we brought Brieson. Who actually knows the teacher and danced with her in the Hello Dolly Play! she was so excited to see him! anyways class was whatever. we rocked the dance for sure! even Brieson said so!but brieson was taking so many pictures and we kept laughing it was no good! i had to tell him no more pictures it was to crazy! then we did the most easiest lame dance in forever so really we gotta find something BETTER! but yea Brieson did take some...b4 dance class and some during and they did turn out pretty amazing! and i just thought i should share them with you all.

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pumpkin patch pictures!!!!!!!!!!!