The Past Few Weeks: Spring 2009

These are some things we had a chance to do during March and April of 2009. =) We had a lot of fun exploring caves near our town. Visiting CA was a great adventure...UNTIL I got seasick!! But eventually all fun must come to an end, and Daniel was deployed April 18th.

First Year Anniversary 8-11-08

Fun stuff we did in Las Vegas!

My Sad News

Today teachers in Nye County School District were notified of RIF (reduction in force). Sadly I was one of the SEVEN teachers at Hafen Elementary School to receive a letter. What does this mean for me? For me this means that I must now displace another teacher at another school who has less seniority than me. What does this mean for Hafen Elementary School? Our beautiful school will be left with 14 teachers. How has this been allowed? How has this happened? How will our school be able to meet the K-3 class size requirement of 22 to 1 student to teacher ratio and grade 4-5 25 to 1 ratio? I do not have the answers. I mourn the loss of my position at Hafen Elementary, as it is an AMAZING educational facility! What I hope and pray for is that positions/allocations will be given back to Hafen. I often wonder, why Hafen? Especially when other schools are only losing 3-4 allocations/positions. This is a question I hope will be answered sooner than later, as the children of our school will be the ones to suffer the consequence.

Broken AC

SO Erik and Amanda watched Simba at our house. Yesterday they came home at 6pm and our AC was blowing hot air and sounded like DEATH! Well, it was pretty bad I guess...120 degrees downstairs!! Hotter upstairs!! I came home from my conference today and OH MAN! IT IS HOT!! I decided to assemble my portable AC and stick it out....we will see if Simba and I survive. Anyhow, looking forward to getting it fixed!

Michigan Pics.

May 2009

SO much has happened and I haven't done a very good job of keeping this updated, so here's a short little list of the major things:

April 18th-Daniel left to Indiana, in June he will leave for Afghanistan.
May 2nd- Michael got married. Welcome Shelby into the family!
May 8th-Find out I might lose job.
May 9th-Air conditioning stops working while I am at a Conference in Las Vegas and Erik and Amanda are watching Simba and the house. Simba almost dies of heat exhaustion!