First Weeks in First Grade...

The first few weeks of the school year are over...it's almost October and I'm surviving! As usual, I'm exhausted at the beginning of the school year. Starting at a new school, in a new grade, in a new classroom was overwhelming at first, but I'm starting to get the hang of things now. I am feeling extremely lucky to have gotten this new job and although I knew my old job had unreasonable demands, I can now really see how stressed out I was all the time (for the past four years!). I'm so excited to be working in a positive environment! Now I just need to learn to relax a little because my last school kept me on edge all the time and I still haven't let go of that feeling at work!

I don't have any updated pictures of my classroom, but I will have to grab some soon because it definitely looks different in there with student tables and student work up!

Quick Traverse City Trip!

 Last weekend, Gil and I headed up north to Traverse City with our friends, Jon & Tina. We got up there super late on Friday and headed to a cute little place called Brew for some martinis. On Saturday, we headed to the Leelanau Peninsula for some wine tasting.

We made a quick, impromptu stop by Sleeping Bear Dunes. It was windy and cold and rained on and off all day. But still so beautiful, of course!

We were gonna stop by the Cheese Shanty in Leland for lunch, but didn't really think about where we'd eat our sandwiches. Way too cold and rainy to eat outside! We ended up eating in Glen Arbor instead.

Leland

Raining across the lake

Tina making the trek in heels...haha trooper!

 Sunday we watched the Lions lose in overtime at the Jolly pumpkin on Old Mission Peninsula. We also hit two of the wineries beforehand, 2 Lads and Chateau Chantal. Love 2 Lads, one of my favorite views! We drove back home after the game was done.

And when we got home, there was some produce waiting to be picked in the garden! Fun, quick weekend! Oh, how I love Northern Michigan!!