Out with the old, in with the new!

        There haven't been many exciting things that have happened around here really this week.  I finished up my last full time day at the Inn, and my first day of teaching is tomorrow!  I'm really excited, this next week is going to be all teacher workdays, and Wednesday night is our open house.  I went on Friday to a new teacher orientation, which was pretty informative and I got to see my classroom.  One of the things that the assistant principal told us was that there were over 61 nationalities represented in the school.  That is awesome!  It also kind of terrifies me a little bit, because now I'm afraid I'll end up with a native French speaker in one of my classes who is always out to correct me or look for any mistakes I might make (dude, I don't speak English perfectly, so my French is obviously not perfect either).  But, theoretically someone who is a native French speaker wouldn't be taking French, right?  I'm still a bit nervous, but now I'm mostly excited.  I went onto Pinterest and got lots of teaching ideas, I bought a roll/grade book, and a teacher planner book.  I spent four hours cleaning and organizing our house and all my classroom stuff... Thomas thought I was nesting and freaked out for about five minutes until I convinced him it was a different organizational disorder. 
         I've been knitting up a storm lately for all these friends of ours who keep reproducing.  I've made lots of little things, and I'm going to try and put up pictures of them on here when I finish them.  I know lots of the people who read my blog are fiber artists! 
       Thomas is really excited about having some free time coming up, that's for sure.  I'm getting together a list of things to have him do during September while he is unemployed/searching for work.  He will be painting our bedroom and Liam's, and organizing lots!  We will most likely at some point be moving - we can't afford the house we're renting if we only have one income (and it's a part time teacher's salary).  Hopefully there will be good news on the job front for Thomas in the next few weeks!
       Liam is beginning to show a few, a few signs of being ready for potty training, so we're hoping to do that soon.  However, if you ask him if he wants to poop in the potty, he says no.  Oh well.  He loves to help mommy make pudding, and that has become a regular weekend activity for us.  I've got a few pictures from the week that I want to put up, and I'll have lots more next week of my craftiness in my classroom! 

This is a little baby sweater I knitted for friends of ours (who will remain nameless as I haven't mailed it yet, and don't want to spoil the surprise)

Matching hat and booties!

                                          
                                                                      Pudding face!

And the bubble bath required to clean up the pudding face...

                                                                                  Celebrating Poppa's 52nd birthday with some cake!