Happy July!

I try to make time to post on here weekly, even when things get really hectic. So you know I must be insanely busy when I haven't posted for TWO WEEKS! Good grief, this senior semester is ROUGH!

I've been really focusing hard on completing all the work necessary to make it through my classes, while trying to actually absorb the information and feel like I'll be able to apply it to my teaching career. Which is no easy task, lemme tell ya. Thank goodness there's only a few weeks left!

This past week was a bit rough on Zoe, since she's in heat currently and going through her "puppy period." She's extra cuddly and gives us her sad puppy eyes when neither of us are paying attention to her...life is RUFF for a weenie with parents in college!

Remember that Edgar Allan Poe unit I've been working on for one of my classes? Well I had a conference with my professor last Tuesday so she could look over it. I was pretty nervous about it, because this professor is SUPER picky about how detailed our lesson plans are, and how things are organized. Everything has to be a certain way. I showed her my unit plan (which was 73 pages long...thank goodness I only had to submit it digitally haha) and she LOVED it! She said she was worried when I told her that I was doing Poe for 8th graders, because Poe can be boring for kids. But the activities I'm doing with them are things that will really make the stories fun and interesting, and she's just really impressed by what I've created. So basically I felt like I was on Cloud 9 all day haha. It was AWESOME that all my hard work was received so enthusiastically! Hooray!

My "brain blast" moment of the week was a few days ago, when something randomly occurred to me. You know those "open when" letters people make for friends that live far away, or for missionaries? Well, the scriptures are like "open when" letters from God. They're there when we need them; when we're having a hard day or are upset over something, or we need some encouragement. Or even when we're having a great day and some love from our super awesome Heavenly Dad doesn't hurt, it only helps. Just thought I'd share that with y'all.