Parents, aunt and uncle...gone. Along with their four dogs, which when added to our two becomes six.

That makes six dogs and six people. Plus 2 cats - makes things interesting.

I took a $270 shower today, thanks to the plumber guys with the giant stinky hoses they stuck down our plugged sewer pipe. Peee-eeeewww.

EEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...backed up sewer in the drain the laundry room - can't run any water and we have company. Effin grody.

I got very little sleep last night - I tossed and turned laying awake with anxiety over the coming school year, my husband's job prospects, and Great American Stories: This is a class I'll be teaching this year, and it's a team-taught class with a History teacher.

Despite the fact that a friend of mine who teaches history wanted to take the history portion so we could teach together, someone else pulled rank on her and took it. I was apprehensive to work with this person because the simple act of getting together to talk this summer has been basically impossible (he is all over the place and expectintg a child on top of it all).

We need to basically revamp the curriculum for the class since it is a elective and has not been taught in 4 years, and with 65+ kids currently registered, it seemed like a daunting task. We had to not only rework curriculum, but also figure out how to deal with nearly 70 kids taking one class together! However, after finally hooking up today, we came up with some really great stuff as well as a solid schedule in our school's forum (auditorium seating and large projection screen system, very cool) and in the library for reasearch.

That takes away some of the worry, and as we head north for the next few days to visit old friends in our old town, I hope that I can let go of stress before the school year even arrives. I've just cleaned the house in a fever while hubby is at a work meeting because my parents and aunt and uncle will arrive shortly after we get home from up north on Friday to visit for the weekend.

This time of the year is always busy with celebrations, and this year is no different, although we have landmarks to clebrate: my (yikes) 30th birthday, my mom's 56th, my parent's 38th wedding anniversary, and us finally settling into our new house. Next weekend is the actualy housewarming, with lots of out-of-town guests, and the week after DMB at Alpine Valley. Then, it's back-to-school!

So for now I'll do my best to enjoy the last few weeks of freedom...

I've been playing with this for what seems like hours, trying to create a cute header pic, but I have literally no photo software. I finally got something visually pleasing together, but since I had to use word, it got all pixely in the translation. Oh well, I could play it off like I meant it to look that way, right?

I'll just jump back in...
1. New house in town where I teach - love it. Just had a great neighborhood get-together for National Night Out; met great neighbors and heard history of area from neighbor born and raised in his home.
2. Electric dog fence - love it.
3. Still love my job, teaching pretty much same stuff again.
4. Went to Greece for Spring Break - loved it more the second time with hubby.
5. Still gonna coach M.T. again this year - can't be as bad as last year.
6. Feeling pretty grown up, going to be 30 next week, don't know how to feel about it.
7. I swear I'm going to keep this blog up this time. I swear...