Oops! I guess I've forgotten about this...

Well, I will admit it. I am not good at blogging. Oh well! Let's catch up...I am no longer at the children's home. I'm now working for Crandall ISD as the elementary music teacher at Walker Elementary. This means K-5 music plus beginner 6th grade band plus assisting with the marching band. Yay!!! I'm excited as this will be my first time to work with a band and I will admit, I'm a bit freaked out too. But as I was telling someone the other day, I have a TON of band friends and 5 other staff members to help me out! I'm moving in to my apartment the first weekend in August and oddly enough it is almost the exact floor plan that I had in Austin. Personally, I like that. I know where my stuff is going to go and don't have to worry about if I will be able to make everything fit! Strange, I know. For now, I'm living with my parents who also just moved. It's weird that I can no longer return to the house I grew up in, the place where I actually know how to get to Walmart and redbox. I loved Fort Worth because it had everything I needed and wanted. Now they live in Cleburne which is very country in comparison. The house is awesome though. Smaller but with only one kid at home now they don't need as many rooms. It has a hot tub which I have enjoyed relaxing in, a barn for Emily and her horses, a shed and a garage for my dad to store stuff in and work in and a lot of living space to enjoy. My favorite room looks out over the back of the property and you can watch the birds and llamas and horses and enjoy the sunlight. In the 2 weeks of living here I have had some great experiences that I never had in Fort Worth- riding horses at night with my sister, finding a movie theater where tickets are less than $5, getting to say "I'm going to town" whenever I have to go somewhere, the joys of Walmart here in Cleburne (mullet and ponytails, pj's and spandex), giving a llama a haircut, bathing Sofi 3 times in one week because she loves to roll in the horse poop, spending countless hours with my sister, sitting on the porch relaxing in the evenings and tanning during the day, giving horses baths, finally getting past week 3 in my c25k (and running 6 minutes straight for the first time in my life). There are some not so great experiences too like spiders everywhere, almost stepping on frogs in the most random of places, for some reason we still don't have a kitchen trash can, Sofi still rolls in the horse poop, we have to drive to a park "in town" to run. Over all, life is good right now. Things are falling in to place slowly but surely and I feel good about it all. I'm ready to get settled into my apartment so I can be closer to work and get started on my classroom and lesson plans. I'm really excited about this year and all that it holds!