It’s been a few days since I’ve blogged. It’s also been a few days since I’ve written my novel. BAD. So, today I’m buckling down to catch up on my word count and hopefully get a little bit ahead, because next weekend is going to be a busy one.
I’m amazed, but I realized this week that the end of this semester is in sight. I’ve already got November and December worked out and booked up, and I’m looking towards January. Our last day of school is the third week of January and then it’s up in the air whether we have to teach winter camps or have some vacation. We’ll see. Either way, it’s nice to see the half way mark in the near future. Time has really flown.
I’ve officially gotten the Christmas spirit. It was very hard to discipline myself to not go to Ikea and completely deck out my room. I’ve decided it would be a good year to try to limit commercialism. I’d like to just get some twinkle lights and a nativity set. These seem to be a whole lot harder to find than Santa Clauses. Although, as I mentioned before, our school performances are all about Jesus’ birth and nothing about presents, which is nice. In my grade 2 and 5 classes, I still feel like I’m doing something very wrong, when a kid asks me “Is Jesus God’s son?” and I say “Yes.” But from everything they’ve told me, we teach the kids to sing Angels from the Realms of Glory as the truth.
By the way this week we did the third verse: “Saints before the altar bending, watching long with hope and fear, suddenly the Lord descending, in his temple shall appear.” Try to explain the second coming to second graders who are learning the names of fruits this week. There’s a challenge. I made myself laugh!
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