Wow am I a slacker! School is finally out and Summer is here. It was quite the first year of teaching. Growing up in a family of teachers I knew it was a busy job but I guess it never really sank in until I got my own classroom. I had a darling class of first graders that I'm sure I will never forget. I loved the team of teachers I got to work with and learn from. In April I recieved a letter stating that they were going to give me a contract to teach the next year. I was so excited and grateful that I was being blessed enough to have a job next year. Then life got interesting, turns out they didn't have as many teachers retire as they thought would and they weren't sure I would have a teaching job next year. I was a bit of a basket case. I carried on teaching my darling students for a month stressing inside about the next year then word came that I did in fact have a job they just weren't sure where it would be at. I found out in May that they were losing two teachers at Lewiston Elementary and that I was one of them, I figured this would happen but I was so sad to be leaving a wonderful principal and staff and most importantly good friends. When the principal called me in to give me the news she gave me my new assignment by asking what I thought about 4th grade, My response " I'm sure its a great grade to teach, however I'm not quialified to teach 4th grade because I'm only early childhood certified" She just sat there stunned by my news and said "well this makes things a bit complicated, I will make a call and we'll see what we can do. As for now your just kind of floating." Wow that was bit of a shocker, I supposedly had a job but then kind of didn't. It was only a couple of days but it felt like months and I was told I would be teaching 2nd grade at Birch Creek Elementary (the new school in Smithfield, Utah). Though I'm a little nervous to be teaching 2nd graders I'm totally thrilled about my new job. I already know the teachers I'll be working with and it will be a blast.
Now to the excitement of my summer. I had about two weeks left of school and I found out I had a hole in my heart. WHAT? You read it right a hole in my heart. It wasn't anything new really in fact I have had this hole since the day I was born, Actually we all are born with a hole in our hearts (this was new to me). Apparently these holes are supposed to close up by the time we are two years old, Huh? Two years old, so I've been walking around with a hole in my heart that shouldn't be there for 28 years? Totally crazy!! So we scheduled surgery for June 7th to fix what is called a PFO, and the last two weeks of school was a roller coaster.
I didn't want to travel to Salt Lake early on the morning of June 7th so my mom and I decided to head to Salt Lake the night before so we could get up and not feel rushed to get to the hospital. It was a totally good idea and it was so relaxing and to be honest with you I wasn't nervous at all, I was just ready to get it over with.
Now I know this sounds terrible but it wasn't an open heart surgery, Modern medicine is truly AMAZING!! The doctor made a little incision in a vein in my leg and they went up and put a little device in my heart, except when they got to my heart the dr. realized I didn't have one hole I had two holes! WHAT? TWO HOLES. So they put two different devices in my heart and hopefully in about 6 months my heart will have grown over them and filled in the holes and I'll be good to go.
Tomorrow will be three weeks since my surgery and things have gone pretty well. I don't feel any different, in fact I feel pretty much the same except for a couple of weird things they say are normal.
Well, I know this is a lot to read especially since I haven't written anything on my blog for about 11 months and well to be honest things have been pretty boring until about May. So now you are all caught up on my life, no that you really wanted to hear it all.
I hope all of you are doing well and I'm really hoping to do better at keeping up this blog thing.
