This song has been running through my mind for weeks now. I hear it almost every morning on my way to work, and I just can't get it out of my head. Not that I want to.
Revelation Song
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Holy, Holy is He
Sing a new song to him who sits on
Heaven's mercy seat
Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of Kings
You are my everything
And I will adore You
Clothed in rainbows of living color
Flashes of lightning rolls of thunder
Blessing and honor, strength and glory and power be
to You the only wise King
Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of Kings
You are my everything
And I will adore You
Filled with wonder, awestruck wonder
At the mention of your name
Jesus your name is power
Breath, and living water
Such a marvelous mystery
Yeah...
Holy, Holy, Holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come, yeah
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of Kings
You are my everything
And I will adore You
10.25.2009
10.18.2009
Adventures...
Our weekends recently have been so fun! I actually have taken some pictures, so I thought I could share. Several weekends ago I took my niece Grace out for a girls' night to the Secret Keeper Girl tour, which was so much fun! Here we are before the event:
Two weekends ago, we went to the Oklahoma State Fair. Hello baby piggies...
Chocolate-dipped cheesecake = A-MA-ZING.
Grown man in Disney's Cars hat, also amazing.
Hello, chicken.
Last weekend, we were planning on going camping, until WINTER decided to make an early debut. So, instead, we went camping in our living room! It was very fun. We set up the tent, ate our camping food, and sat in our camping chairs. Wish I had taken pictures of that, but I didn't.
This weekend was fall break at my school, and Caleb took Thursday and Friday off from work. We went down to Dallas for a nice long weekend away. First, we visited the Texas State Fair.
Next, we went to see the musical Mary Poppins. We were early, so we sat outside taking pictures.
Then, Caleb said, "Smile like Megan." Megan = 4-year old niece whose posed smiles look very forced.
Later, we went to our first NBA game, the Dallas Mavs vs. Detroit Pistons.
The Mavs had two retired jerseys hanging from the rafters...one of which belonged to a KSU alum! So, we thought that was pretty cool.
Of course, after this I stopped taking pictures. I'm terrible about taking pictures. The rest of our weekend looked like this:
Friday: sleeping in (yay) and shopping. We spent the morning/early afternoon at IKEA, and the late afternoon at an outlet mall. It was fun. We were mostly window shopping, but we did find some good deals and got to dream a little. We ate at Rainforest Cafe that evening, which was fun.
Saturday we went to Six Flags over Texas. Caleb and I have very different ideas of a fun day at a theme park. My idea of fun is to get there early, ride as many roller coasters as many times as possible in the amount of time that the park is open, and go home exhausted. Caleb's idea of fun is to sleep in, get there around noon, ride the following rides once: antique cars, canoe ride, and the train, and go home sometime around late afternoon. This is NOT an exaggeration. Honestly, those were the three rides he wanted to go on. We compromised. Lame. Next time, I need to go with a roller-coaster buddy. We left early, and I was a tad grouchy. However, the grouchiness dissolved with pizza and ice cream while listening to K-State trample Texas A&M. (Also helping the mood were the scores of KU, OU, and NU games...)
Today, Sunday, we visited some of Caleb's family down in Dallas. We went to church with them and enjoyed Mexican food before heading north.
I think life is going to slow down a little for a couple of weeks. We're settling in down here, anyway. It takes me a really long time to feel like a place is home, but this evening when we finally drove back into Tulsa it sortof kindof maybealittlebit felt like home. Maybe.
Two weekends ago, we went to the Oklahoma State Fair. Hello baby piggies...
Chocolate-dipped cheesecake = A-MA-ZING.
Grown man in Disney's Cars hat, also amazing.
Hello, chicken.
Last weekend, we were planning on going camping, until WINTER decided to make an early debut. So, instead, we went camping in our living room! It was very fun. We set up the tent, ate our camping food, and sat in our camping chairs. Wish I had taken pictures of that, but I didn't.
This weekend was fall break at my school, and Caleb took Thursday and Friday off from work. We went down to Dallas for a nice long weekend away. First, we visited the Texas State Fair.
Next, we went to see the musical Mary Poppins. We were early, so we sat outside taking pictures.
Then, Caleb said, "Smile like Megan." Megan = 4-year old niece whose posed smiles look very forced.
Later, we went to our first NBA game, the Dallas Mavs vs. Detroit Pistons.
The Mavs had two retired jerseys hanging from the rafters...one of which belonged to a KSU alum! So, we thought that was pretty cool.
Of course, after this I stopped taking pictures. I'm terrible about taking pictures. The rest of our weekend looked like this:
Friday: sleeping in (yay) and shopping. We spent the morning/early afternoon at IKEA, and the late afternoon at an outlet mall. It was fun. We were mostly window shopping, but we did find some good deals and got to dream a little. We ate at Rainforest Cafe that evening, which was fun.
Saturday we went to Six Flags over Texas. Caleb and I have very different ideas of a fun day at a theme park. My idea of fun is to get there early, ride as many roller coasters as many times as possible in the amount of time that the park is open, and go home exhausted. Caleb's idea of fun is to sleep in, get there around noon, ride the following rides once: antique cars, canoe ride, and the train, and go home sometime around late afternoon. This is NOT an exaggeration. Honestly, those were the three rides he wanted to go on. We compromised. Lame. Next time, I need to go with a roller-coaster buddy. We left early, and I was a tad grouchy. However, the grouchiness dissolved with pizza and ice cream while listening to K-State trample Texas A&M. (Also helping the mood were the scores of KU, OU, and NU games...)
Today, Sunday, we visited some of Caleb's family down in Dallas. We went to church with them and enjoyed Mexican food before heading north.
I think life is going to slow down a little for a couple of weeks. We're settling in down here, anyway. It takes me a really long time to feel like a place is home, but this evening when we finally drove back into Tulsa it sortof kindof maybealittlebit felt like home. Maybe.
9.09.2009
The nose knows.
This little guy made his debut in my classroom today, and he made my classroom a much more pleasant place to be. :)
8.20.2009
Tiredness
Extreme tiredness has set in.
This has been my first full week of corralling 160ish 6th-7th graders and trying to teach them a thing or two about subjects and predicates in the mean time.
...and I am utterly sleepy! I got home last night and fell asleep, woke up for an hour or so, then went back to bed, slept 8 hours, and woke up still tired.
I love school, I love the other teachers, I love the kids (most of them...no, let me take that back. I love them all, and I like most of them...), but by the end of the day I just want to stop talking/thinking/making decisions and just EXIST. I was trying to teach my students about linking verbs and state-of-being verbs this week (a hard concept to grasp at first--how are words like "be" "am" "are" "was" "is" etc...verbs?), but after this week I feel like I have grasped state of being verbs in a whole new way. I get home and I want to just "be". Not DO anything, just BE. The act of "being" is enough action for me after a crazy-full day with these wonderful, lovable, squirmy, crazy pre-adolescents!
I just didn't realize how exhausting it would be. Sleepy...sleepy...sleepy.
The good news is, I'm not emotionally exhausted yet! I wake up sleepy but excited to go to school, plan lessons, grade papers (for the most part), and watch the "Ah-ha!" moments when a sweet little face goes from being puzzled to being master of the English language. Love it. Love it. Love it!
Cute moment of the week:
First day of school. 6th graders wandering the halls, scared, trying to find their classes.
On most of my students' printed schedules, it has their English teacher as "Ms. STAFF," because they hadn't hired me yet when the schedule was printed. So, several times throughout the day I had students coming up to me saying, "Umm, excuse me. Are you Miss Staff? Because my sheet says I'm supposed to be in Miss Staff's class." It was hard not to laugh, but you just couldn't, because they were so genuinely concerned about getting to wherever they needed to go to find Miss Staff. So cute.
Speaking of sleep...I'm going to go get some. Happy almost Friday!
This has been my first full week of corralling 160ish 6th-7th graders and trying to teach them a thing or two about subjects and predicates in the mean time.
...and I am utterly sleepy! I got home last night and fell asleep, woke up for an hour or so, then went back to bed, slept 8 hours, and woke up still tired.
I love school, I love the other teachers, I love the kids (most of them...no, let me take that back. I love them all, and I like most of them...), but by the end of the day I just want to stop talking/thinking/making decisions and just EXIST. I was trying to teach my students about linking verbs and state-of-being verbs this week (a hard concept to grasp at first--how are words like "be" "am" "are" "was" "is" etc...verbs?), but after this week I feel like I have grasped state of being verbs in a whole new way. I get home and I want to just "be". Not DO anything, just BE. The act of "being" is enough action for me after a crazy-full day with these wonderful, lovable, squirmy, crazy pre-adolescents!
I just didn't realize how exhausting it would be. Sleepy...sleepy...sleepy.
The good news is, I'm not emotionally exhausted yet! I wake up sleepy but excited to go to school, plan lessons, grade papers (for the most part), and watch the "Ah-ha!" moments when a sweet little face goes from being puzzled to being master of the English language. Love it. Love it. Love it!
Cute moment of the week:
First day of school. 6th graders wandering the halls, scared, trying to find their classes.
On most of my students' printed schedules, it has their English teacher as "Ms. STAFF," because they hadn't hired me yet when the schedule was printed. So, several times throughout the day I had students coming up to me saying, "Umm, excuse me. Are you Miss Staff? Because my sheet says I'm supposed to be in Miss Staff's class." It was hard not to laugh, but you just couldn't, because they were so genuinely concerned about getting to wherever they needed to go to find Miss Staff. So cute.
Speaking of sleep...I'm going to go get some. Happy almost Friday!
8.09.2009
One year ago,
I love him so much more now than I did then, which I didn't think was possible. We thank the Lord for a wonderful year of life and love, and pray for many more years to come!
8.05.2009
Lately...
A couple of weeks ago, our friends Robbie, Gail, Sarah and Jason came to visit and see the musical Wicked with us. We had an amazing time, and while Robbie & Gail went off for an evening to celebrate their anniversary, Caleb and I got to spend some quality time with a couple of our favorite kiddos...
Cuteness.
A few days later, we had some other friends from Manhattan come down to see Wicked and stay with us. We went to the Tulsa aquarium, which I hadn't been to yet. Loved it!
And, finally, I have a job! I'm the newest addition to the staff at Glenpool Middle School in Glenpool, Oklahoma, a suburb to the south of Tulsa.
I want to tell the whole story of how the job came about, but it's probably too long for a blog post. If you see me, please ask me about it, because it's a good story. Basically it can be summed up by saying that the Lord is absolutely faithful and absolutely better at orchestrating minute details than I could ever be. After months of searching and applying for every English opening I could find, this pretty much fell in my lap, thanks to a few...no, make that SEVERAL people who spoke up for me!
I'm thrilled...it's a 6th & 7th grade position, and I will be teaching writing & grammar...my passion in language arts! I do need to brush up on my grammar...I'm going to pull out the old A Beka textbooks. *grin* I'm a little nervous about the sixth-grader part, but only because I haven't been in a class with kids that young before. It will be an adventure! I report for new teacher orientation tomorrow morning.
A couple pictures of my classroom... it's very much still in process. School starts next Thursday!
My corner (note the K-State football and basketball posters...)
The front of the room...
Far side of the room...
Okay, so it's not that exciting yet, but it's a start! More to come when it's all cutesified.
Cuteness.
A few days later, we had some other friends from Manhattan come down to see Wicked and stay with us. We went to the Tulsa aquarium, which I hadn't been to yet. Loved it!
And, finally, I have a job! I'm the newest addition to the staff at Glenpool Middle School in Glenpool, Oklahoma, a suburb to the south of Tulsa.
I want to tell the whole story of how the job came about, but it's probably too long for a blog post. If you see me, please ask me about it, because it's a good story. Basically it can be summed up by saying that the Lord is absolutely faithful and absolutely better at orchestrating minute details than I could ever be. After months of searching and applying for every English opening I could find, this pretty much fell in my lap, thanks to a few...no, make that SEVERAL people who spoke up for me!
I'm thrilled...it's a 6th & 7th grade position, and I will be teaching writing & grammar...my passion in language arts! I do need to brush up on my grammar...I'm going to pull out the old A Beka textbooks. *grin* I'm a little nervous about the sixth-grader part, but only because I haven't been in a class with kids that young before. It will be an adventure! I report for new teacher orientation tomorrow morning.
A couple pictures of my classroom... it's very much still in process. School starts next Thursday!
My corner (note the K-State football and basketball posters...)
The front of the room...
Far side of the room...
Okay, so it's not that exciting yet, but it's a start! More to come when it's all cutesified.
7.13.2009
I like lists.
Things I like about this new life in
- We live close to a beautiful walking/biking trail!
- Quik Trip on nearly every street corner—49 cent diet mountain dew and yummy taquitos.
- Wearing purple in the land of maroon and orange.
- Caleb’s brother and his family being nearby.
- There’s a dollar theater in town, although I usually just want to watch movies on the couch with my hubby.
- Caleb having a job where he gets off at the same time each day.
Things I don’t like about this new life in
- It’s been too hot the last few weeks to use the walking/biking trail.
- Lack of teaching jobs.
- Roads that aren’t free to drive on!
- Not feeling like home / not having friends here yet.
This summer, I’ve enjoyed:
- A visit from Jason and Susan.
- Having the nieces over for a slumber party.
- Having my mom come visit!!
- DVR.
- Hours upon hours of alone time. [Not sure if this qualifies as something I’ve enjoyed or not, but it’s been unusual, anyway.]
- Participating in a ladies Bible study with my sister-in-law at her church.
- Doing my own “personal investigation” (via books and the internet) into the Nicole Brown - Ron Goldman murders…Did O.J. do it? I have made up my mind as to what I think happened…
- Trusting God with the big stuff, and trying to trust Him with the small stuff.
- Visiting a very unusual church.
- Sending and receiving lots of postcards from all over the world via postcrossing.com
Upcoming events I can't wait for:
- Amanda coming for a visit!
- Robbie, Gail, Sarah and Jason coming for a visit / seeing Wicked!!!
- Finding out what the school year holds for me.
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