La Sonya

I am almost to the end of my 30th year. It's been a real good run. I read every year my correlating Psalm with my age. This last year was a real champ of a chapter. I've enjoyed reading it several times through the year. Here are some of my highlights from it. Okay, I was going to post my favorites but really the whole things is. So here it is: Psalms 30 I will exalt you, Lord , for you rescued me.      You refused to let my enemies triumph over me. 2  O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,      and you restored my health. 3  You brought me up from the grave, [ a ] O Lord .      You kept me from falling into the pit of death. 4  Sing to the Lord , all you godly ones!      Praise his holy name. 5  For his anger lasts only a moment,      but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night,      but joy comes with the morni...

I'm on a 5 min break from lesson planning at school. I seem to be in overdrive today! It's a good thing since I leave for 3 days for meetings in Phoenix (which I keep accidentally calling Phonics. . .) I commiserate with other teacher friends who have found ourselves some how in the middle of April! This is the best month (mainly because it's Earth Day) but it's the CRAZIEST month because I'm gone at least one day 3 out of the 4 weeks. Not that I don't like meetings and socializing but it's just a bit crazy. Last week was the week I was here everyday and believe me I made up for lost hours by staying over 12 hours 3 days last week. I'm still finding myself oddly surprised at how much I love teaching. It almost feels rude because I have so many friends who don't get to love their jobs as much as I do. I mean, I love my job! 12 hour days aside this is fun. We are growing things, little minds and little plants. I'm teaching how to add 3 digit nu...