Hop-along-Troy

Beach was FANTASTIC, minus the chill in the air. We finally got to catch up with our buds Matt & Jennifer, as well as spend some time with our brother and sister Matthew and Katie. It was nice to just have nothing to do but sit around and chat! However, Troy's right foot had other plans. One of the pups got loose on Saturday afternoon and the boys apparently had to take off in a mad dash to catch her. (Us girlies were shopping, of course!) According to Troy, he did not have time to put on shoes, so off he went down the neighborhood barefoot. This track took him off road into the woods. ALLL NIGHT he complained, and then into the next day or so. I just made fun of him ( I ADMIT) because I thought he was being a baby. (sorry hun!) Sunday night he was complaining of pain and so we soaked it, iced it, wrapped it and nothing felt better. Then we decided that he should probably have it checked out. RESULTS= Torn ligaments and he has to wear a boot for 2 weeks!! WOW did I feel bad, but I bet next time he'll wear shoes ;)

BEACH BOUND!

Heading the the BEACH tomorrow for some much needed best friend time with our buddies Matt and Jenn! Cannot wait to just sit around and enjoy doing NOTHING! Loving the SPRING weather and hoping it sticks around! :) Hoping that our camera battery arrives soon (i lost ours) so i can start uploading photos of our umm 5 flowers outside :) HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!

Note from the teacher...

Here's some humor for your day!

I have one girl who loves to sing, especially during reading groups (small group time w/ me) On this particular day she starting singing an old song that i remember from like 8th grade "Barbie Girl"..we all knew it and we all hated it, remember? Well she decided to put her own, innocent spin on it and it has now turned into a favorite of mine.

"Im a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world...Life is tastic in a super basket!" =)

My boys in the class are all Romeo's and have suddenly all started wearing cologne. One morning ****** came up to me and said..

"Are you wondering what smells so good? It's Me..."

I mentioned my obsession, i mean love, of the Twilight series to another teacher. One of my small tots was eavesdropping (as usual 5 yr olds do) and felt the need to but in and say "I know that movie..Skylight and News Moon, right?"


The kids often talk amongst themselves and I usually pretend not to hear because they truly do say the funniest things! They are such "grownies" as I heard a friend say. One day the girls were talking about flower girls after reading some Junie B. Jones (amazingly funny childrens novels)
"I was a flower girl once. You carry a basket and walk down an island!"


February was the month of presidents, and on the day of George Washington's birthday i opened with "did everyone wish George Washington a happy birthday??!!!"
"Ugh no, he's dead!?"


We were talking about bubbles in the bathtub one day (I think it was the day i confessed to giving myself a soap beard to look like Abe Lincoln when i was little) I went around the room and asked the kids to share the funniest thing they made with their soap bubbles...i got the following responses:

" I make more bubbles....tehehehe"
"I make a brewski with my bubbles" (REALLY PARENTS?? REALLY?)


well that is all i have for now. I will leave you with a comment that continues to melt my heart :)

"Whenever you are sad mrs. staley, i will always cheer you up!" <3

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I get called "mommy" , "moma", "mom" on a regular basis, but yesterday and today changed all that. Today I was referred to as "memaw" (thats what i called my gma!) and yesterday i was called "daddy." OK that was a little too much. :-/

Really???

Is it SPRING yet?

Troy and I have both been having trouble with our allergies lately, and although Spring is an asthmatics worst nightmare, we're both ready for a change in weather. The COLD winter really did us in. We both were very excited to get another chance to see snow in Raleigh this year, but the majority of the season was spent inside freezing our hinneys off! (I just said hinney, haha!) Troy's been super busy as usual with Law school, but he has done an excellent job, once again! He is ready to be DONE with studying, at least for the summer. Almost 2 years down, 1 to go...I CAN'T WAIT! I miss him terribly, especially on the weekends when he is locked away upstairs with books the size of small homes studying :( And I know he misses me as well :) Almost there babe!

This summer is going to be full of excitement for us. Troy just landed an internship back home with a law office and we're moving back that way for 2 months! YAY! I am super excited!! It has been hard being away from friends and family so being able to live right there with them this summer will be nice. I am even more excited that I get to be home with Jennifer and Matt and their precious baby boy who is due to enter the world in mid June! :)

I guess it would also be a good point to discuss my panic attacks i've been having since Christmas. The level of anxiety in a person should be very minimal, but for some reason (stress) my levels have been sky high which often leads to unexplained attacks. The symptoms are no fun, but now that I have learned what they are and that they can't hurt me, I can better control them. Although they DEFINITELY still suck, I am aware of their presence and know that they will pass. It has also been very helpful to learn that a LOT of people suffer from the same thing I do- high anxiety leading to attacks. I have also been very sick with a sinus infection, topped off with the stomach flu which made things seem 10X worse, but i am feeling much better from that now too! I have also learned that God will NEVER give you more than you can handle, and this has been a very true testimony of my life the past few months. Symptoms very in every person, but when an attack is coming on I start to feel very nervous, shaky, shortness of breath, chest pain, light headed, feelings of unreality, scared, and honestly like I am going to die. These suck, but once they pass I am OK. They are basically the same feelings of a person who is having a heart attack, so that is why the first one I had over Christmas led me straight to the ER. THANKFULLY though, the past week especially has been great! I don't know if it is the warm sunny weather we've had or what, but I haven't had any feelings of anxiety and i've been in a much better mood overall! Thanks to GOD only, because I know without him by my side I would not be where I am right now.

Now, wasn't that a lot to take in? It feels better to be on the other side of the storm where I can talk about it freely and hope to offer some hope to someone else who is in my shoes! God has definitely been good to us and we are learning to thank Him for all our blessings, and all our struggles, because without them we wouldn't learn to lean on him during times of need!