Good morning friends! It is 4th of July weekend and I am just sitting here on this quiet Sunday morning, looking out my deck doors at the beautiful sunshine and reflecting on life. It is not often that I stop long enough to have time to notice the blessings around me, but I want to make a conscious effort to do that each day. I am even going to start a blessings journal and begin writing in it each day. During the school year it is so easy to get caught up in the mundane day to day tasks that we all have - lesson planning (though that can be quite fun and exciting, yet sometimes a chore as well), meetings, behavior concerns, academics, politics, paperwork, testing, testing, and MORE testing... It's so easy for me to become discouraged, down, and dwelling on the negative. I've decided that to change that I need to make a conscious effort each day. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there that feels this way from time to time. We all have struggles. That's life. It ha...
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