taking a break

so what have we been up to for the past two months? well, january was a lot of basketball. matt and i both had teams to coach this year - he had 8th grade boys again and here's my team of freshmen girls. it was a lot of fun to coach them this year....it's easy to get to know your team quite well when it's so small. we ended up 16-4 on the year and were conference champs. they made me look quite good :).

this year i decide to brave the homecoming game crowds, but it was all worth it to see matt dance with the pommers in a father/daughter dance that they put on every year. one of his former students asked him to step in cause their dad couldn't make it. i have tried for years to get that boy to bust out a move at a wedding dance and i've got nothing so far.....so i wasn't going to miss this. (i think he's going to post the video someone took on facebook)

february has been the month of homework. school is going great and i'm a few weeks away from being 1/2 way done. but as any college student knows, the last few weeks are always the busiest. next quarter i have a 50 hour practicum (classroom observations) and in the fall i'll be student teaching....which also means that i'll be looking for my own teaching job in less than a year!

teaching is going well for matt. he enjoyed his february break between basketball and baseball...and i did too. he went to the chicago auto show with some friends a few weekends ago and has actually made it home from school before 5:00 several nights this month. but tryouts start for baseball on monday so he'll be off and running once more. he's coaching the jv by himself this year and has a lot of guys trying out for the team, so he also has the awful job of making cuts. it's hard to believe that the season should start already when i woke up to 4 inches of unexpected lake effect snow on my car this morning!

well i'm off to do another project for school. adios!