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| bleh. it begins. the good news is i love my job :) i have to do so much documentation rationalizing EVERYTHING. its pretty crazy. and its crazy how much time im putting into the education of preschoolers.
anyway, my theme units are going to be... *drum roll*
the 5 senses
&
RECYCLING! WOOHOO!
(and i'm doing recycling during the week of v-day- how romantic...trash creations)
if you have any brilliant cool ideas that i could do with preschoolers, let me know.
i did find these 2 great recycling songs though that ill share with you:
Recycling For Our Earth
(Sung to: "Mary Had a Little Lamb")
Hear the cans go crunch, crunch, crunch,
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch,
Hear the cans go crunch, crunch, crunch,
Recycle for our earth.
Hear the bottle go ding, ding, ding
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,
Hear the bottle go ding, ding, ding
Recycle for our earth.
Hear the paper go crinkle, crinkle, crinkle
crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle
Hear the paper go crinkle, crinkle, crinkle
Recycle for our earth
Pick up Litter
(Sung To: "If Your Happy And You Know It")
If you see a piece of litter pick it up
If you see a piece of litter pick it up
You will make the world look better
If you pick up all the litter.
If you see a piece of litter, pick it up
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| sabbath is something i learned about in my undergrad. back then to me it was mostly a time of respite from people, since i was around them all the time. i did it sometimes, and it was always a fun play time for me. well, i really didn't think much about it truthfully. it was just a "good thing" to do, like helping people or giving $. and then in the homily at our wedding, sarah's charge to us was to sabbath together. sabbath was something God gave to the Israelites as a time to (as marva dawn explains in her book about the sabbath) cease, rest, embrace and feast and join with him in a holy space to just enjoy eachother. this year sabbath has come to mean something far greater to us than before. we started doing a sabbath on sundays the first weekend after david got his longterm (soon to be full time) job at an elementary school. this year, we have a lot more responsibilities but we have both felt this pull to sabbath on sundays together. and it was been absolutely wonderful. i think i really feel like the time was ripe for us to begin this together. before when i've tried sabbathing it was good, but i've never felt a pull, like its a necessity. or even to put it another way, keeping the sabbath no longer feels like work. which is the way it's supposed to be. it is so fun creating new traditions for our family too- we use our china on the sabbath, we have a special candle we bring out, and prayers we use to usher it in. anyway, that's my intro into sabbath keeping. i love it.
and now, want to hear something neato? on our sabbath one of my worries is
always "am i going to be able to get everything done?" i felt like i was spending all this past sunday trying to push away all these
worries and to dos for the week. one of those things was writing up
data sheets for our class on 5 kids IEPs so we can start to take data on how their doing with their goals.
usually it would take like 6 hours i would say. i was going to do this
on saturday, but didn't have time, so i
figured i'd just have to work extra hard all monday in between classes and also this week. BUT... i got it done yesterday in 2 hours!! it was amazing.
i felt like it was this neat really tangible way of God answering my
worries of "how will i get it done." it's given me a faith boost
and i think it will be easier next weekend to not worry so much and
enjoy my day with God, David and friends.
"The meaning of Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny or things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a dayt on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world. It is to be a day free from anxiety; it is, a day for praise not a day for petitions." Abraham Heschel
"If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath
And keep my holy day free from your own affairs,
If you call the Sabbath a Day of Joy, the Lord's holy day honored,
And if you honor it by not plying your trade,
Nor seeking your own interest
Or attending to your own affairs
Then you shall find joy in the Lord,
And I will set you riding to the heights of the earth
And let you enjoy the heritage of your father Jacob-
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
-Isaiah 58:13-14
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| last night was so much fun. we played star wars mafia until 12:30am- it's so bonding!
laura
and i have decided to make 2 other versions of mafia- a pride &
prejudice one and a harry potter one. :) look for it late july. does
anyone remember iv-opoly? anyone know where it went?? we were trying
to remember who we bequeathed it to...
laura is back! she's a reminder that people who move away really might actually come back to seattle. :) i think i always knew people i loved would move away, but this year it's becoming a reality. and before, i'd been the one moving away. being left behind is hard in different ways. when i left seattle my first year out of undergrad, my attitude was just that i'd make new friends there and i think that didn't let me miss my old friends as much as i really did. i made myself think that reminiscing about friendships was bad and i should be spending my time and energy being hopeful for new friendships. i'm glad God didn't let me stay there in that pretty shallow place. it's amazing to me still that God cares about that part of me- i made real friendships in college and i want to hang onto those. mourning the loss is good and necessary and is evidence of the depth of friendship.
christina & david won't be within walking or realistic driving distance for i don't know how long. they are rare friends and i wish we could just move next door to them forever. this is were part of me thinks growing up just sucks! at least i know that their move is not for a random reason ;) i know too well how hard it is watching someone you love not do what they love. one of david lowe's favorite quotes is "the glory of God is man fully alive" and i think it is so true- having your man not fully alive is no good for their hearts or your life together. so while i'm so happy for c&d that david is on the way to being more fully alive, i am so so sad to see two great friends that i love so much move to the opposite end of the country. it's a strange mix of emotion that i need to start realizing now so i don't just explode when and after they leave :)
jen & laura, you have given me hope about what friendship can look like long distance. i love how we could just pick up the phone and not have to catch up about all the details, but just talk about today. it's wonderful when your heart connects with people in a deep way, it's a reminder to me that we should never hold our hearts back in friendship. "don't be friends with them, or enjoy hanging out with them too much- they might move away in 2 years." bleh! never! but it's a real temptation in life now. in college i knew i had at least 4 years or more. but now it's different- the 20's are so transitory, especially in seattle where not many of us can afford real settle-down houses. christina & david, thanks for this last year and the many others too- and thanks for not scaling back on friendships the last month you're here. we love you, and i love you. here's to about 22 more days of physical proximity, and many more years of friendship.
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| additional people to see
danger/christine (you guys are a given)
amy li, my ranch 99 buddy forever!
of course ellen lin before taiwan! we have a wednesday date, right?
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| Things I plan to do this summer
Read: Click, Clack, Moo, Cow's that Type, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Writing Measurable IEP Goals and Objectives, The Practice of the Presence of God
See: Laura Turner, Jeff/Carrie, Jen/Young/Ella, Christina/David (WAAAAAHHH!!), Mari Y., Ali Fujii (if you wanna be on this list, contact me  ), kids from my class last year, Pirates 2, my first IMAX film
Memorize: Numerous Raffi songs and actions
Purchase: A Canon PowerShot A540, some rechargeable batteries, a flashcard, and a telephoto lens, Raffi's Singable Songs collection
Organize: 2 closets, various teaching material/junk i've collected the last year, wedding photos- bleh! anyone want to help?
Make: my bed, finish david's christmas stocking, various recipes from cook's magazine including the ultimate chocolate cake
Go: to Mt. Rainier, to Montana, to Glacier, visit Miyuki at work, to Vancouver B.C. for unlimited sushi (any takers?), explore seattle parks
Have: multiple get-togethers a week, including organizing some sort of newly-wed/young couples thing with people at calvary, not a baby.
YAY!!
hope to see some of you on friday :) here is a pic from david's graduation!
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