Wait a minute…I need to add something here…

I have just re-read my previous blogs back to back, and did not realize how critical I am about myself.  I do think that I am a good teacher overall.  I know that there are areas that I can grow more as an educator.  I do have a healthy self image. So please, don’t contact a local therapist for me yet.    I do have some really good information to share in case you would like to see that I am capable of singing praises as well as singing the blues. 

After assessing my students last week in reading, I am please to report that many of my students have increased their reading ability by at least a year and most have grown as much as 2 years since the last 9 weeks assessment. My middle to high readers are flourishing.  My two lower students have made progress, but these students are also ELL.  I am thrilled to see that both of these students have increased their reading ability.  I am very proud of my readers.  They continue to amaze me daily.

Another bit of good news, my husband and I found out last week that we have been accepted by the adoption agency that we had applied to at the begining of the month.  We passed the first application and are almost finished with the full application.  When we turn that in at the end of the week, we will have to go to a meeting in the spring and then get our home study completed.  Once we have gone through all of those steps, we will be prayerfully waiting to hear about being matched with a birth mother.  We are very excited to have started on this journey.  We have been talking about adoption for the past 4 years and now here we are on the road to welcoming a sweet bundle of joy into our family.  It almost seems like a dream.

I am sorry to have written 2 entries about myself that seem to be such downers.  Wow, what a way to introduce myself to my class and professor.  I really am a fun loving, cheerful person who usually sees the glass as half full.   I was just a little overwhelmed this weekend with some things that have been going on personally.  I just had to put some things into perspective.   I am all better now.