Fall to Winter Update ----

Wrapping up student teaching

Looking for Art job

Planning on sleeping alot --- I need sleep

Finishing portfolio

Getting Kai ready for college

Seeing Joe and Bubbles for Thanksgiving and Xmas

Looking forward to seeing my grand-dog :)

Enjoying the dreary cold - yippie!

Knitting

Drawing

READING -- Fiction... wow!

Snuggling

Soups and other comfort foods --- Yummy


Baking Bread ! :) To share with new art buddies :) - I can't wait

Enjoying the breath.

Summer Update

Summer - Hot

Teaching - Art

Kids - Good

Hubby - Home

That's the highlights. More to come.

Change will come, oh change WILL come.....

Well where to start. Last Friday, Jan 28 - I got a shocking bit of news - the company I have worked for - for the last 4 years - laid me off, along with about 9 others.

The shock is wearing off and the reminders of "everything happens for a reason" & "it's probably for the best" & to quote my aunt "one door closes and a new one opens" (love that one!).

Remembering to breathe and that money flows like the breath and being open to new possiblities.

I had planned on jumping right into observing this week but my daughter has been home sick so, as blessings go, Thank You God - for this time to heal. There is always next week.

Plus I want to teach!!!! I know it IS my vocation. Amen!

Snow, Spring 2011 semester begins, student teaching on the horizon........

Well it's January---- February is already just around the corner. This semester looks to be the most jam packed yet. 71 hours of observation needed for student teaching, 9 hours of classes, 35 + hours of work required to stay fulltime, TEAC, finished portfolio, PLT test.... kids, bills, house and work. Hubby still out of town, son off at college - just me and cutie pie.

I just hope and pray that I can get through it all with my sanity and my health in tact.

I'm trying to breathe more - take things one day at a time and NOT procrastinate. Get my rest, vitamins, eat healthy.. think positively.

WISH ME LUCK AND ASK GOD FOR HELP AND MERCY! Amen.

thanks universe. vb

Winter Wonderland

Well - I survived Fall 2010 - semester. Not only did I survive but I learned so much! This time next year I will be finishing my student teaching and graduating :) !!!!

Now it's time to rest, relax, get some exercise and fresh air, read, sketch, breath, get organized.

BREATH - BREATH - BREATH.

Mama's got a New BLOG-ITUDE!

Well - where to start. Life could not be more hectic right now.

Son leaving for college in 6 days.

Daughter a junior in high school with a job, boyfriend, active social life and soon to be driving.

Classes starting back for me.

Working fulltime.

Some very scargy inevitable situations are coming to a head and hopefully coming to an end or changing in a way that will create a happier situation for my husband and myself.

And the usual money-worries.

I hope to be able to get used to life's interruptions some day. Just as things seem to settle in to a happy moment some other cog in the wheel slips into or out of place - footholds weaken, ground trembles, fear, worry and anxiety grab your heart, mind and soul to startle your insides to the point of a non-stop nausea.

But in all of this I want to say that I AM AN ARTIST. I seek to be creating, discovering, learning, teaching, opening the eyes of others.

My son is going on his own creative journey and I am watching him closely. I want to learn from him. My daughter is also my teacher. She is educating me in the world of nurturing. I have nurtured them both with my body, my mind, my soul, my heart and every cell of myself and now they are teaching and nurturing me.

Thank you God for the blessings ~ and those to come!

summer cold.....

Well OK it's not actually summer yet but I do have a yucky cold. My daughter had it first, even though she didn't seem like she felt this bad though - :P. She said this morning though that she DID feel this bad. :(

So much is happening right now - spring is bringing new birth. I always think of May and late spring in terms of birth because both of my children were born in May and I was born at the end of June.

My son is graduating from high school in just a couple of weeks. He is being born again to the world in a new way - as an adult. With this new birth comes a new kind of letting go for me as a parent. I know it will be similar to child birth, painful and exciting, scary and exhilarating, tearful and joyful.

My son is an amazing person and an inspiration to me to keep working at what I want. He works hard and keeps pushing himself toward his dreams and goals. There were sticky points during his boyhood but we worked through them together as a family.

Part of my heart will go with him to college in the fall. I feel so blessed to be part of his life. I have always felt that my children were a gift from God and that it was my responsibility to help them grow into decent human beings. Especially since at the time of their births I did not have a career or even an idea of what I was good at. They became my career. Now I am on to my second career even though it has been hard to figure out -- lots of stumbling of my own, teaching is the only choice for me. I have proven this to myself and art will give me a way to teach others how to improve the world around us.