Whoa, Nelly!

It's been a long time since I've written! For good reason. My husband and I packed up all our lives, sold our lovely home and moved to Jupiter.

OK. We didn't really move to Jupiter.
It just feels like it.

Actually, we landed in the lovely Southern California - where the weather is amazing, the people are weird (as in, weirder than "Austin Weird"), and the public education system is TERRIBLE.
Oh yeah, and the gas is $4.75 a gallon and it cost me $45 to get 2 dresses and 3 men's shirts dry cleaned the other day. (I believe they are cleaning our things in gold, from the original gold rush of 1849).

I'm sure I will fill this blog with all the ridiculous stories of our transition, but the two things I want to leave you with today are:
1. We are over the moon thrilled to be close to our families. God is good!
2. This transition has been one of the most difficult things I have ever done...but our families are worth it.

More stories on all that to come! In the meantime, here's a picture of our very first morning in California.

National Book Reading Month

Did you know March is National Book Reading month? (Like we need an excuse to read?!)
Sometimes hooking kids into reading can be quite challenging, especially if the child did not have books in the home during the early years or if Engish is his/her second language. (Or, for my student, BOTH!)
But there are so many, many was to engage children in the excitement of literature that all school age children should feel comfortable and want to interact with literature daily!
If you have little ones that are still a bit wary of reading, try a few of these things:
- Take a student interest survey and find out what topics would be great books to snag from the library
- Watch movies about books!