I have been trying to articulate what’s been going on–but so much of it is stuff that I have blogged about before and people don’t necessarily want to hear me rant about the public educational system again and again.  This topic is consuming much of my life now–as I have been observing student teachers and teaching interns–who are all working in urban public schools.  The state of those schools and the education in them is horrible and I don’t know what else to say about it without ranting and getting on my soap box.  I can say public education is broken and needs to be fixed–while we have schools for our kids–many of our kids aren’t getting an education and that is just as bad (if not worse) than not giving them health care.

I am down a total of 28lbs–that makes me smile.

My kids are healthy and happy.  Noah has a big boy bike w/training wheels and loves riding it.  Z got on it the other day and her legs are long enough–she pushed a little on the pedal and the bike moved–scared her to death.  That made me smile too.

Overall, life is good.  I am just busy and exhausted and trying to balance it all.  The semester is only 9 more weeks.  I can do it.