6 weeks until summer!out

I can't believe my first year of teaching is almost over! It's been a whirlwind. I just found out on Friday that I will be teaching summer school. That's a relief. Granted there's still 4 weeks of the summer that I won't be working but I'm hoping that things work in my favor for my certification. I finally got everything in and submitted to the state for my certification! It took a little longer than I expected because of needing extra transcripts, and then something would get lost, and it just seemed to be never-ending. Then last weekend I went on the dept. of education website to check the status of my application and it had been accepted!! What's more, is that instead of certifying me from the date it was accepted, they certified me for the whole year!!! I'm super excited about that, in case you can't tell. Why? Well, I've been paid a teacher associate salary all year. If the state says that I've been certified for the whole year, there's a chance that I'll get back pay. So keep me in your prayers because that would help me out a whole lot. I had planned on having all this paperwork in and finished back in January and having my raise already. I should be getting the certificate in the mail this week or next week so I'll definitely be taking it to my boss as soon as I get it.

There's a lot of other stuff going on at school, but I can't really talk about it on here since it involves my kids. I do know that I'll be moving up to the middle school for a good chunk of the day next year. I also have a new room at my home school for next year. It's bigger and not next to the bathroom. It's very distracting this year. Every time anyone uses the restroom next to my room you can hear the toilet paper being rolled, the flushing, and the washer and dryer that's in there (it's a staff bathroom).

In other news, Hobbes seems to have allergies, or something. We noticed a couple of weeks ago that he was squinting his eye and it was watering. So Chris took him to the vet and they did a test to see if it was scratched. It wasn't, so they gave him some medicine for allergies, since the same thing happened last year. He had to go back for a follow-up last week and he was still squinting. So now they want to test for herpes or glaucoma, but Chris told them that we would wait and see with more medicine. I think that they are just trying to make money. So we'll see what happens. We might look for another vet for a second opinion.

Well, I think I've written a long enough book for now.