Fun Fall

What a busy fall we have had; soccer, cheering, half marathons, Halloween and lots of football! Here is just a small caption into our lives-we've been busy, almost too busy to even catch it on film!

Church water station at mile 10!

 Our Run for God group that completed the half marathon!

Hank was so proud of his daddy and extremely excited to sport his medal!

 My first U8 soccer team. Hank had such an awesome season and has really improved; catching on to the purpose of the game and developing a real love of the sport.

Haunted trails and corn mazes.

Annual family trip to Fort Mountain...featured here; all the great-grands!

Family trip to Helen Georgia...

and we brought Ganny along

 Happenings in the streets of Helen

 ...and a trip to Burt's Pumpkin Patch

Halloween

Day at Point Park

What a fun Fall we have had. I always love this time of year. It has been so relaxing this time around being finished with school and the ability to spend so much time with the kids and Kelly-it is so breathtaking. I am now looking on to the winter holidays and all that it brings!

First Day of School...for us ALL

All of us anxious and ready to start a new adventure: Me, first day as teacher at CAPS (children's assessment and preschool services) as the new co-teacher; Eden, on her first day of 4th grade; and Hank, on his first day of 1st grade! What a day for us all:) I am so excited to be starting my first year of teaching and I could not be more thankful for the opportunity. Stay tuned for the fun and all of the stories!

Summer Fun

Afternoon 4th of July lunch at Jefferson's

 Summer lovin' from my Hankie boy before the Rome Braves baseball game

 Ready for the fireworks

 Camp Glisson fun for Eden

 Welcoming new babies into our brood of friends

 Hessenbruch family mini-reunion

 Graduation dinner at Food Works

 Post-graduation dinner fun at the Riverfront Park

A trip to ATL and White Water-what a fun day!

And of course a one last trip to the lake...

Despite the fact I was finishing up my final courses of my Master's degree we still found plenty of time for FUN. From parties, to camping and baseball games, our summer was jammed packed! I would not have had it any other way. I am so looking forward to all the summer adventures that are sure to come of the life of a school teacher....we always have our summers off!

Finally...TEACHER!

Oh where to begin...
I have been on this path for quite some time, 1997 to be exact:) the year I graduated high school and entered as a freshman at Covenant College. I take full responsibility for not accomplishing my goals prior to now, but over the past 14 years I have had quite the road blocks-none of which I regret; injuries, life interruptions such as moving, marriage, the birth of two children...the list could go on and on. But none of that matters, for today I have finally reached the end of that road, I am officially a teacher, a Special Education teacher.
My heart has just grown leaps and bounds for these children; the disabled ones, the ones that others see difficult to teach and others whom consider them not teachable. I am now their advocate and I am so ready to take on that job. It's been an interesting road and I feel it all was necessary to be who I am today; God doesn't make wrong decisions, and I have walked the path for which He had intended.
I am graduating with a 3.98, not perfect but pretty darn close. I am so proud of myself and am so thankful for all of the support-from my mom for babysitting so much, my husband for taking over house hold duties such as laundry and running the kids around, to my kids whom gave up their mommy (only some) so that I could read, study, do projects, and go to class at least twice a week and their whole summers (twice). I am truly grateful to them all; I couldn't have done this without everyone's support.
I received a call on Thursday...an job offering. Wow, I interviewed in June and have waited ALL summer for this call! A teaching position in Whitfield County, the county for which I have grown up and have been working as a paraprofessional the past three years. I will be teaching preschool special education as a co-teacher in a Head Start classroom; an inclusion classroom with fifteen 3-5 year old's-half special needs and half your typical preschool student with no known disabilities. I am so excited and cannot wait to begin.

Commencement

Words cannot express how excited, elated, happy, honored, proud, etc., I am! This is a point in my life that I have wished for for quite some time. Everything in your life happens for a reason...like one of the undergrad's quoted at Commissioning "if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." God has had a plan for me all along and this was all a part of it; not the exact tract I had intended to take but God knew what I needed best.

So, here I am with a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Special Education and waiting to begin my life as a special educator. Let the fun begin...!