Not much going on

School is so much better this year! The 6th grade teacher is having a hard time, but I like my class. Ella had her first soccer game. Josh had his first game. We are busy, but we love it! It seems like we are getting a lot done on the house, even though there is still a lot to do. We spent Jordan''s 30th birthday in Temecula with his family and Josh's family. I love seeing the two 2 year old cousins together! They are so funny. Both have a good sense of humor and love to play together. We swam and just hung out. It was a great day.

I think the toughest part of this school year is having a new principal who has never been involved with an elementary school He was a wood shop teacher, worked at one of the high schools and then the adult school. So basically, he counts on all of us to let him know what needs to be done. It does make all of us feel like the plan is to close our school so it really doesn't matter who the principal is. He's a nice guy and easy to get along with. It's just that we (teachers) have to do a lot more planning to let him know things need to be done. Reorganization is never fun, but he really had a tough time with it because he's never had to call parents and tell them that their child is going to be going to a new school starting Monday. And for some reason, our district office really decided to make things difficult. We have some kids leaving who have been at our school for more than a year but they are the last one in. On top of that, a few of them have siblings at our school and the siblings are not leaving. It is a mess! Maybe the district made this decision based on the fact that they expect us to be closed next year anyway. Who knows. Oh, and one of the families who have a sibling leaving and a sibling staying just lost their dad a few months ago. I feel for the mom. Now that I am thinking about it, I think all of the district people who make these decisions have never been in an elementary school. We've had a big change in the district office over the last couple of years due to deaths. Everyone who replaced those people came from the high schools except one had one year as a principal at the elementary level. Sorry, just thinking out loud how this all came to be.

We had planned to go to Arizona this weekend but Bailey and Cole both had sleepover plans so we decided to make it another weekend. I miss the kids but not the drive on a Friday night!