It's Been A While

I've obviously been absent for a while as I have been adjusting to motherhood and a new school year. I have seriously scaled back my teaching schedule, and am now only teaching one day a week. This is due to two reasons: 1) I wanted to be home more with my baby boy 2) Enrollment was so low at many of my centers that after paying a sitter, I wasn't breaking even. I'm assuming that low enrollment has been due to the tough economy, as I have never had issues with enrollment in my previous years, and have not done anything different this year.

I miss many of my old students, but am really enjoying this new schedule. I love my time with my son. I love being there for all those special moments. And working one day a week allows me to get enough of a break to stay sane, while doing what I love.

Also, I have plans of pursuing publishing some of my Literacy Launchpad curriculum in some way, shape, or form. I'll keep you posted on that. Teaching one day a week allows me to test run new stories and lesson ideas that I might include in my publishing pursuits. Perfect!

I'm also offering Literacy Launchpad classes at my local rec center, but for whatever reason those never seem to take off (I have offered them in there in previous years too).

That's an update on what I'm up to. I will be posting lesson ideas and reflections again soon!

He's Here!

My little bundle of joy arrived on the 4th of July. He's our little firecracker! Everything went awesome with the delivery and we've been home for a couple weeks visiting with family and adjusting to life with a newborn. Newborns sleep a lot, but yet it still seems tough to get much done with him around... I'm hoping I get the hang of all this mommy stuff soon and get back to blogging more regularly.

Yes. No. Maybe.

Remember me?? I know, it's been forever. The truth is, I was planning on giving this blog up altogether. It didn't seem to be becoming the awesome parent communication tool I was hoping for, so it didn't seem worth the effort I was putting in to it.

BUT I've had a change of heart. So what if it's not what I had hoped it would be?! I've been missing the blogging world! And every time I get a comment on here, or an email from another blogger, I feel sad (and guilty) that I've been away so long. So... I'M BACK! Kind of.

I've been having the urge to get back to blogging. So we'll see how this goes. I don't plan on posting everyday (not that I really ever did post everyday). It will probably be more like once a week, or once every other week. I'm not going to focus as much on lesson summaries like I did in the past. But fear not! I will still be sharing info about class, just not with as much depth as I was previously.

My plan is to just play it by ear, see how it goes. The plan is also to play it by ear and see how I feel. There's another factor that has played into me deserting the blogging world recently; my husband and I are expecting our first baby! I had been feeling pretty yuck for quite a while, so when the choice was between blogging or sleeping, sleeping always won (actually, I usually didn't have much choice in the matter). But I've been feeling much better lately (knock on wood). No more narcolepsy!

So... I'll be seeing you all around the blogosphere!!