Corny, but True

Lately, John Thomas and I have been so busy that we are lucky to spend ONE evening together at home a week! And they are normally Sunday nights, and we should be going to church. During the fall John Thomas is on a softball team that plays every Monday and Wednesday night. They either play at 6:30, 7:30 or 8:30. With these times he is home by 8 at the earliest, then we still have to eat. Tuesday nights I have Bible Study with a fantastic group of ladies! (Sidenote: I cherish my Tuesday nights with them. A coworker who I have became great friends with invited me at the beginning of summer and I have been since!) This leaves me Thursday-Saturday night, where you would think that I would be spending time with John Thomas. And majority of the time we are together but we are either A-having stuff that has to be done asap since the house is For Sale or B- doing something with family and/or friends! Please don't get me wrong, I LOVE being with my friends and family but I sure do miss John Thomas and I cooking dinner, eating, and hanging out together.

I heard Blake Shelton's new song, God Gave Me You the other day going down the road and I wanted to burst into tears. We have been so caught up with work (he seems to be as busy as I am) and other things that we haven't spent much time together and I know that I haven't truly appreciated him like I should have. I have a deep respect for those of you who husband's travel constantly (My mom being first! My dad is gone every week and home about every 4 or 5 weeks for a week at a time! I would HATE that!), or even work third shift. I just don't know how I would do that.

So no matter how cheesy I am being by posting this video, it is how I am feeling and my new favorite song to crank up and listen to while driving. A good reminder of how fortunate I am to have a wonderful husband if nothing else.

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Year One

I can't believe that I already have two weeks under my belt! I am off to a great start with my first year of teaching! I currently have 72 students, but that can change anyday with kids still transferring in or switching out of Honors ELA to 8th grade ELA. I really have nothing to complain about except that I am completly exhausted! :) However, I already had geared myself up for that! Thank you to all who said a prayer the first day! I had so many sweet and encourging text that helped make the first few days bearable!

I can not even explain how much I love and appreciate my team! This team has a special place in my heart anyways because it is the team I did my student teaching with! During that time I grew really close to one of the two math teachers on the hall and now we are great friends! They have all bent over backwards to help me! I thank God that he placed me with such great people to work with! Not only on my team but school and even district!

I will take some pictures to share later on! I hope that you are having a great weekend! I had a class for school this morning and now I am getting ready for couple's night. However, I am going single since John Thomas has gone to Bristol for the race tonight. That is okay though, I probably wouldn't have even talked to him that much there anyways, haha! Have a great Saturday night!

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Facelift

I am trying to design a new background and header so that explains the dullness of my blog! I don't like the uglyness that it has going on right now but until tomorrow night it is just going to have to do! I am hoping to have a new facelift of Gillespie's Gatherings tomorrow, along with an update about how awesome school and life is going! Love to all!

Back to a Routine!

I must admit I am routine type girl! So starting school today was good! Although I did not love hearing my alarm go off at 5:45AM, I did love seeing all the people that I work with! Made a 7:45 faculty meeting very bearable! I feel so blessed to begin my first year teaching at such a wonderful school where the support system is awesome! I still have a lot and I mean A LOT of planning this week, but I am ready for the kids to come and get the school year rolling!

Back in February I started a gym called 9 Round Gym. It is a a kickboxing/boxing 30 minute circuit. At first I was super dedicated going Monday-Friday and when I missed a day I felt like crap. Spring Break came and I only went two days that week and from then on it has been not so good. I never could get back going and so I went on to loose all the muscle and endurance that I had built up. I thought to myself over the weekend that today would be the perfect day to get back started since I am kicking off a new school year. Loved being back, do not love the way I am feeling. I know that it takes about two or three weeks to get back into it strong so I am making myself become dedicated to it and going at least five times a week! I am hopeful that it will work! I loved the feeling I had when I went!

Tuesday nights is when I typically go to my awesome Bible Study that I love so much but tomorrow I am going with two of my close friends to see Hillsong! I would recommend them to anyone! You should go check them out on youtube if you have never listened to their music. Such an inspiring group!

That is about all I have tonight! I am ready for bed and it is 8:45, ha! I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Love-

I promise...

That within the next week I will update and honestly start blogging! Now that I am getting back into routine, I hope, I will keep this up!