Recap of [2011]

January

The start of my final semester of classes. Student teaching interview. 
Continuing to work with my cardiac-electrophysiogist.
Researching the power of a healthy diet and it's effects on the body.
   

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February

Grandma turns 90! 

We had a big open house for her and all of her friends :)

**she has more friends than I do!**

Starting undergoing chiropractic care.

March 

Mom's birthday!

POTS Symptoms were running rather high :/

Spent hours and hours in sped classes learning how to administer the WRAT assessment.

(one long and lengthy comprehension test!)

One out of the many pages...
we scanned them as we had to practice administering this test on many a friends ;)
Extra copies just in case we needed a new sheet for mess ups!

April

Blizzard in mid April! Crazy!

POTS symptoms controlling my life :/ Not a fun month.

Countdown until geneticist appointment.

May

BUSY MONTH!!! THINGS START TO LOOK UP :)

Revelation of our family history and nationality -- received grandpa's old adoption papers.

Letter official: Fall Student Teaching Placement

Start my coupon craze!

Osama-Bin-Laden is dead!

Monday mom nights: The Bachelorette starts!

Here is a snippet of my grandpa's adoption summary.
He was brought to the agency is a suitcase!

June

Omaha/Iowa flooding worsens.

Chauffeuring Grandma and funny stories develop!

Pinterest became highly-addictive!

 Famous information about our family!!!

 July
Geneticist appointment is here! I have an amazing genetic counselor and specialist.
...after 6+ months of waiting
Official EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) diagnosis is revealed.
Click here for more information regarding EDS!

August

Student teaching in 1st grade begins! 

Funny stories of past students!

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September

I turn twenty-three and received adorable gifts from the kiddos.

Husker football season is here!

How sweet is this?

Her and her mom baked the whole class homemade carrot-cake cupcakes :)
She was SO proud.

October

Fall Break is here!
Halloween parties in first grade.
A much needed rest and catch up picking pumpkins :)
Blog break for awhile and more awesome pictures from my lovely kiddos.

Acres and acres FULL of millions of pumpkins!

Mad skills for first grade! (especially the beginning of first grade!)

November

 Assessment presentation - Mom saves the day! Story here

(a.k.a. the big kicker for assessing your knowledge of teaching and assessment)

12-14 minutes. NO going over. 

You were graded on: confidence, oral presentation skills, knowledge of content, and more specific target areas.

CRAZY nervous.

Lesson for my project! 

Pictures were incorporated during my presentation

Introducing domino's to teach addition!

part-part-whole concept using manipulatives

Differentiation & Formative Assessment :)

Summative Assessment

December

Fall Elementary Education student teaching comes to an end :/ 

Bittersweet.. 

Spring 2012 special education placement received: Middle School. I have mixed emotions.

Currently: Applying for grad school & employment for August 2012!

What a year it has been. 

Primarily, it has been full of doctors appointments/health and teaching! 

I'm so proud of everything I was able to accomplish and am anxiously awaiting an even more busy 2012 year! SO much to look forward to :)

My blog has grown so much and amazing friendships have emerged.

I'm hoping these relationships continue throughout 2012 and beyond 

♥

Best wishes for a new year, friends!

See you in 2012.

xoxo

erinj0.

Last Chauffeur Day of the Year

It's Winter Break, and I have free time, so that means I'm back to being my Gram's chauffeur! 

Where to, you might ask?

To organ class, where else?!

And might I tell you, it's not just any organ class as my gram would put it, "there are no beginners in this class... we all play very well and are quite experienced!"

after all, it is the advanced class

Typically,  she has classes every Wednesday 

(but due to the Christmas holiday and all, it was moved to Friday ...just for this week!)

Pretty snazzy looking for pushing 92, eh?

It was too funny. Last night I got a call from her. 

"Erin, I'm just checking again, you can still take me and pick me up from Organ tomorrow, right?"

..."yes gram, I'll be there promptly at 10:00am!"

that was the fourth time she reminded me.

In one week.

So, I got to thinking. Which is never good. But really. Listen to this.

My gram has two hearing aids. Without them, she is deaf. literally. 

When she plays the organ at home, you can hear it from three houses down.

I wonder how loud it really must be in the building where they play...

oh dear. I can't imagine.

Any who.

After her organ class, she goes out to lunch "with the girls" 

(cute, huh?)

She calls me from her little jitterbug (a.k.a old persons cell phone!) and fills me in on her where-a-bouts. 

It's always one out of three places.

i Hop

Garden Cafe

Fernando's

Today it was good ol' i Hop :)

When I go to pick her up from one of those three locations, I always have to sit and chat with the girls for awhile. I mean really, old people LOVE to talk and hear stories. I always have to budget for at least a good 30 minute conversation before I can leave.

Today, I brought them some goodies in a cute little mason jar, pulled tightly with a bow, for a late Christmas treat!

Santa's Chex Mix

Craisins

Pretzels

Peanuts

Corn Chex

(drizzle white chocolate and let cool)

add M&M's and mix together.

Santa-Hat's

Buggles

white non-parcels decorations

red (white chocolate candy melts)

mini-mallows

Click here for the full recipe

It was good to see the gals, but some were missing due to Christmas parties, traveling and all. Stay tuned Wednesday for pictures of the girls and some funny stories!

Until then, check out some older posts and funny stories from my gram this summer here and here. 

Can you believe TOMORROW is New Year's Eve?

My recap of the year in tomorrow's post.

xoxo

Miss Indecisive

Hi Friends 

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As you have probably noticed, I have changed my blog look. 

I want you to know that I am probably the most indecisive girl, so going as long as I did with my old layout was pretty darn good!
Is it great. Eh, no. Will it be perfect. Never.
That's something I always have to remember!

When I go to the shopping mall or just a store, I usually end up asking a random stranger their opinion on things; whether it be which color they would prefer or which flavor they like better. My friends and family are quite embarrassed by me at times. I know, I'm pathetic.

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Like most of you, I am on holiday break until I begin my last semester of student teaching. While it has only been a week or so, I am getting rather stir crazy having no concrete plans/lessons to write/things to plan. I am a person that likes to stay busy, so I had to accomplish something. 

What better than to work on my blog! 

I went back to somewhat of a previous look that I used to have...

AND

I added some pages and pepped things up a bit!

If you are new to my blog, perfect! If not, hopefully you can learn something new!

Click here to read about my best friend, my one and only and how we came to be.

♥

I am planning some new things for the "new year" so bare with me!

and during the next couple of days, I really want to catch up on some old blog friends :)

So, of course I have to ask...

what do you think of the new look? 

xoxo.

erinj0