Monday, March 30, 2009
Spring Break
We're on Spring Break this week and it's so excellent. I am SO glad that I am done with my National Boards portfolio because I have the entire week to do...nothing, really. The girls and I are going to do stuff around the house and Andre has Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off, so we are just going to hang out.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Under Contract, Accepting Offers
We are officially "under contract, accepting offers" for our house. We got a pretty good offer on Saturday night, countered Monday, and they accepted last night. It's all contingent on several things, but the big one is they have to sell their house first. That's kind of a drag, but hopefully they'll be able to unload it quick. They have until June 30 to close with us...and if they aren't under contract with their house by May 30, our deal falls through. Which would really suck for a lot of reasons, so hopefully that won't happen!!! One of the good things is that we have a "bump" clause, which means that if we get another offer with no contingencies, we can give our current offer 3 days to decide if they want to try to get financing or whatever or else we can bump them in favor of the new offer.
Oh, and I'm mailing "the box" today. So my portfolio, which represents an ungodly amount of work, will be off to the assessors for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Now all I have to do is study a whole bunch and go to the assessment center on May 26 for my test -- 6 prompts, 30 minutes each. I'm not nearly as stressed about it as I have been about my portfolio.
Oh, and I'm mailing "the box" today. So my portfolio, which represents an ungodly amount of work, will be off to the assessors for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Now all I have to do is study a whole bunch and go to the assessment center on May 26 for my test -- 6 prompts, 30 minutes each. I'm not nearly as stressed about it as I have been about my portfolio.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Martin Lawrence is funny
Andre and I are watching an old Martin Lawrence comedy show on Comedy Central. He's doing an imitation of white people when they get pulled over by the police. Funny.
Our girls are asleep right now. Ah, the silence. They are so cute, though. Tonight they wanted to listen to "daddy's music" on the radio--the spanish station. They try to get me to listen to it in the car, too, but I usually can't find the station :-)
It's been a busy week. I've been finishing up on National Boards. Yes, the saga is coming to an end. Actually, it's not, I still have to take the assessment center test, but I'm mailing the really hard part (the portfolio) on Tuesday. Kami, Paul, and I were all at school working today...on our day off...
Andre is working four tens right now, so it's nice to have him home for three days straight. The days he works are a little bit of a drag, though, b/c I barely get to see him--I get home from work and he leaves right away. They change shifts every month, though, so it's not like this is forever.
I've been following the progress of Emily, the daughter of a friend of a friend (it's complicated to explain). Regardless, Emily had a hemispherectomy today--surgeons removed 1 hemisphere of her brain. She has been suffering Rasmussen's Encephalitis for a few years now and this was their last result after all other treatments had failed. Please join me in keeping Emily and her family in your thoughts. http://emilystoermer.blogspot.com/
Our house is still on the market. Obviously. If it has sold I would've mentioned that first :-) Another house in our neighborhood just went on the market, too, and they are asking way more than we are--hopefully that will really work in our favor.
It is 10:30 right now and I feel like it's midnight. Going to bed!
Our girls are asleep right now. Ah, the silence. They are so cute, though. Tonight they wanted to listen to "daddy's music" on the radio--the spanish station. They try to get me to listen to it in the car, too, but I usually can't find the station :-)
It's been a busy week. I've been finishing up on National Boards. Yes, the saga is coming to an end. Actually, it's not, I still have to take the assessment center test, but I'm mailing the really hard part (the portfolio) on Tuesday. Kami, Paul, and I were all at school working today...on our day off...
Andre is working four tens right now, so it's nice to have him home for three days straight. The days he works are a little bit of a drag, though, b/c I barely get to see him--I get home from work and he leaves right away. They change shifts every month, though, so it's not like this is forever.
I've been following the progress of Emily, the daughter of a friend of a friend (it's complicated to explain). Regardless, Emily had a hemispherectomy today--surgeons removed 1 hemisphere of her brain. She has been suffering Rasmussen's Encephalitis for a few years now and this was their last result after all other treatments had failed. Please join me in keeping Emily and her family in your thoughts. http://emilystoermer.blogspot.com/
Our house is still on the market. Obviously. If it has sold I would've mentioned that first :-) Another house in our neighborhood just went on the market, too, and they are asking way more than we are--hopefully that will really work in our favor.
It is 10:30 right now and I feel like it's midnight. Going to bed!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Recently...
Our house has been on the market for exactly two weeks today. It seems to be going pretty well, but it's kind of weird because it feels like we've been trying to sell it for months! Keeping things perfect all the time really sucks. It helps that Andre is on 4 10's right now, so he has three days off during the week and is able to get lots of "honey-do" lists finished (lucky him).
I've been working like a crazy person on National Boards. I'm trying to get my portfolio done and mailed by March 23. I will be pretty relieved once I've mailed it...actually, I'll be pretty stressed to mail it b/c what if a) I forget to include something in the box or b) the post office loses/destroys/damages/steals the box or c) I send it to the wrong address or d) etc. However, once I know they get it, then I will be relieved.
After mailing "the box" I will be working on Prom stuff (Junior class advisor...yay me) and also studying for the massive test we have to take (also for National Boards). Prom is May 2 and Massive Test is on May 26.
I can't wait until May 27.
Of course, by then we will be moving (I hope) and maybe building a house. At least, for the first time ever, I don't have anything to do this summer except teach summer school for a couple of weeks. Oh, and go on a vacation for our 10th wedding anniversary :-)
About the girls...Olivia and Victoria are doing so well. This girl smacked Olivia in the face yesterday at daycare b/c Olivia wouldn't let her play in the same center as she was. Andre was pissed...and can't understand why Olivia didn't smack her back. I told him we've taught her otherwise, remember? Olivia is over the whole thing. Andre is still pissed.
They didn't have school today and Andre had the day off, so they all stayed home together. I called to see what they were doing and Victoria answered the phone....
Victoria: "heyo?"
Me: "Hi, who is this" (I knew)
Victoria: "This is mmmmmictoria." You can totally hear her smile. She says her name like this when she's excited and can't pronounce it correctly. She has problems with pronouncing L's all the time, though...I think I blogged about that once...yegs, oyivia, yove :)
I've been working like a crazy person on National Boards. I'm trying to get my portfolio done and mailed by March 23. I will be pretty relieved once I've mailed it...actually, I'll be pretty stressed to mail it b/c what if a) I forget to include something in the box or b) the post office loses/destroys/damages/steals the box or c) I send it to the wrong address or d) etc. However, once I know they get it, then I will be relieved.
After mailing "the box" I will be working on Prom stuff (Junior class advisor...yay me) and also studying for the massive test we have to take (also for National Boards). Prom is May 2 and Massive Test is on May 26.
I can't wait until May 27.
Of course, by then we will be moving (I hope) and maybe building a house. At least, for the first time ever, I don't have anything to do this summer except teach summer school for a couple of weeks. Oh, and go on a vacation for our 10th wedding anniversary :-)
About the girls...Olivia and Victoria are doing so well. This girl smacked Olivia in the face yesterday at daycare b/c Olivia wouldn't let her play in the same center as she was. Andre was pissed...and can't understand why Olivia didn't smack her back. I told him we've taught her otherwise, remember? Olivia is over the whole thing. Andre is still pissed.
They didn't have school today and Andre had the day off, so they all stayed home together. I called to see what they were doing and Victoria answered the phone....
Victoria: "heyo?"
Me: "Hi, who is this" (I knew)
Victoria: "This is mmmmmictoria." You can totally hear her smile. She says her name like this when she's excited and can't pronounce it correctly. She has problems with pronouncing L's all the time, though...I think I blogged about that once...yegs, oyivia, yove :)
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