First Week of School

Well, I guess I can say I survived. This week has not been as I expected at all. Things are very hectic and both the students and I are frustrated. I hope that next week is better as we will begin actually working on music. Prayers are greatly appreciated and will be added to the hourly prayers that I have been sending up.

On a side note, I have completed the Decorating Basics cake class at my local Hobby Lobby store. I thought it would be fun taking the class, and I hoped to be able to make a cake for Isaiah's birthday party. The class was a great stress reliever those last 2 weeks, and I'm excited about making a train cake in October. Here are some pictures of the items I created.

The cupcake cake we made the 2nd week of class.

As you can tell, Isaiah likes it!

Our final cake-Week 4.

The flowers were very difficult to make.

I'm glad I have a little boy who won't want flowers on his cakes!

New Beginnings

It's almost time to start the new job. I went Monday to check out my rooms and now I am totally at a loss. The high school room is like any other newish choir room. A large "box" with 2 practice rooms and a little office/library. Not too worried about it though they won't give me a key until next Thursday and I am supposed to have everything ready by that next Wednesday! The middle school room is very interesting. Looks like it used to be a theater room. Risers are built-in as if they used to be a stage with booths that served some purpose years ago on each side. Complete with gigantic lights hanging from trusses on the ceiling and lovely concrete walls. I'm a bit scared of tackling that little project. They were willing to give me a key at the middle school, but all the music is at the high school, so I could only get "room" stuff ready there. I opted to drown my sorrows with a little shopping at Mardel and Target. Still have no idea what I'm going to do.
I know my child is almost 2 years old, but he's never been in a real "daycare." I called today and get him set up in the Sanger ISD childcare. I almost cried while talking to the lady on the phone. I'm sure she thought I was being ridiculous. She kept asking me if I really wanted to enroll him, and all I could think was, "Do I have any other choice?" I'm sure the childcare will be great for him. He loves to be around other kids, and I know they will do some wonderful teaching as well. We go next week to meet his teacher and see what it's all about. Today Isaiah was so funny. I made Spaghetti-O's with meatballs for lunch, and apparently he didn't like the meatballs. He took them all out and set them to side while he ate only the O's. Too funny! Here are some recent pictures.

My little man eating everything but the meat!

Isaiah, aka Woody, watching TV.
Crazy boy! Check out the massive bruise from falling and hitting the cabinet door.