another 2 hour meeting

Yep I just got out of a two hour meeting, helping me understand and be better at teaching science.  It was 2 hours long, and anther meeting on top of all the other things and meetings that I have to do and go to.   Do you ever feel like that?  But now that it is done and finished, it was a good meeting and I learned how to understand concepts and be better at teaching the "big ideas" of science.  Sometimes we get to complicated and don't focus on the main ideas that we need.  And understanding the main ideas actually make it easier to understand and know how everything works together better.  The same idea applies to our lives.  Sometimes we need to get to the basics and things will come together better and we will understand everything better.

Are we going to have any video stores anymore? Hollywood, Blockbuster what is going on?

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Are we going to have any video stores anymore? Hollywood, Blockbuster what is going on?  Well let me tell you what is going on, and you probably already know. One word. Redbox.  Or I guess the other big one is Netflix OK maybe it is two, what ever. So how am I going to relate this to our lives?  As I write this I don't have a clue.  Well, right now our TV is well half dead.  Ya it doesn't work, well we can play DVD and the old things, what are they called, o yes, VHS videos.  Yes I am still old school and have those, I don't have any Blu rays, or a Nintendo or Play Station or a Wii. O yes I would like one, my son really wants a Wii, but just don't have that kind of money laying around right now.  OK back to were I got sidetracked.  Sometimes we replace things in our lives that are good, and other times we replace some pretty important things with stuff that is not that critical.  So my point: we need to be really careful that we are not replacing the important stuff with other junk and filing chapter 11(like Blockbuster is going to do) spiritually, mentally or physically, or placing or family off to the side.

Wes



Hey look at what I found, it is not even out  yet.

I haven't made the best of decision when ever there is a decision placed before me, but I try I really do.  I got talking to a student today,  he was making some wrong choices that was affecting how he was acting and what he was allowed to do.  He said that he wanted to start over tomorrow, so he wasn't going to work today.  No we have to start today, because the choices that we make today are going to affect tomorrow, whether they are good or bad.  Today's  choices will affect tomorrow and possibly farther.  I got thinking, wow somebody should be giving me this talk, maybe someone was giving it to me, and using me as the mouth piece to try and teach myself.  Do you believe in a higher power? I do, and I'm thinking He was trying to talk to me.

Wes

Life comes at us from many angles, like a group of bullies picking on the little kid that has $5 for his lunch money for the whole week.  Where you feel like no one cares, because no one stops them or even asks to help you after they are gone.  I wonder how many of us put on a mask every time we walk out our doors and have to interact with the world.  there is no need for us to be hiding behind some kind of mask.  I will guarantee that there are many many people out there that is willing to help you in any way shape and form, we are just to stubborn to let them.  My challenge: let some one get to know you a little better and share some of their great self with you, as you share some of yourself.

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• Monday Morning Mantra: Selflessly Selfish (chicagonow.com)

The things I share, create the person I am. In caring for myself and who I am first, I can offer an endless supply of gifts the whole world over. Giving offers me insight into what I value in life. 
Repeat.

Back to School ll

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Back to School night was yesterday for us and I had one jam packed room. If you didn't know I am a teacher, 4th grade. If you are a parent you probally understand and know this. You really don't care what your kids are going to be learning, you care more about the teacher and if they are going to be a compatent teacher for your child. Or are you going to be like this teacher whipping the students the first chance you can.  4th grade really is a fun grade they want to learn.  I asked a ? of why 4th grade was the best one of my students said it was because we would be learning Cursive.    So it is just like the old saying.

They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

wes

A dog named Sheldon

Boys and puppies have a connection.
Our dog recently had puppies and my kids loved that, (I wasn't to thrilled about it, but...). One of the puppies was pretty smart and was able to get out of the pen that I had built for them. This was a smart puppy. So he started running around with my kids and my boy named him Sheldon. He had to have gotten it from his teacher's husband's name. Well my son and this puppy really had a connection, they knew what each other was going to do. My wife and I told our kids that they could keep this puppy if they took care of it. One of our neighbors kids wanted a puppy. What do you know they wanted this Sheldon, I didn't say anything about that he was the one that was named. Like a guy that had to many puppies, I was trying to get rid of them and let them take him. Yes that ended up braking my kids, and especially my boys heart.

Sometimes we as parents forget about what things are important to our kids. I hope that I will become more concerned about their feeling and desires.

Love your kids, and make sure that they know it.

Wes

Back to School

Life is just like "Back to School." How does it compare you say? Well doesn't it happen every year. It happens every year about the same time. Without fail Teachers will start getting their rooms ready. Parents and kids will be clogging up the stores buying school clothes and supplies. Buses will be on the road again. "Back to school" night will come and go and then there will be the first day of school. It is a cycle isn't it? You can look in life, any part of life and see cycles. The earth and moon have cycles, then there is summer, spring, fall and winter. Plants go through cycles. So do we as humans go through cycles, whether it is physical or not. Now that I think of it I don't know why I related "Back to School" with Cycles.

There is one thing that we can see it as. It is a consent thing in our lives. It will always happen. We may not be going to school or have a family member going, but it is still going to happen. Each of us have constants in our lives, sometimes we need to build our lives around these, if they are important enough. Others or constants that can bless us and help give us direction.

Well enjoy this school year.

wes

Act or React

Do we act in life or do we react? I have come to understand a little better about these two choices that we have. If we let life overcome us them we start reacting and we could and a lot of the times get drowned in what ever it is. When this happens we close off to things that are more important-family, friends, our relation with God. I probably have lost a couple months of learning and growing with my family because I have let other things, (mostly money take control of my thoughts and actions and my over all demeanor.

Yes these things are going to happen to us. That is what happens in life, we learn life's lessons. Well, hopefully we learn the lessons when they come our way. When some circumstance happens we need to learn to be able to control what we can and still stay close to the things that are most important in our lives.

It has taken me a little while to understand some of this concept and I'm sure that there is more for me to learn before it is over, and the next lesson starts.

Here is a challenge for you today, this next week or even month.
Ask someone how they are doing (someone that you would normally not ask) and then if you could help them in any way. Enjoy this experience. Let me know how this went.


Wes

Good things to come

Sometimes this is exactly how my wife and I feel through life lately.
But you just have to have faith and know that God does love you, and You can make it.

Bike peddles

Just this spring my son learned to get going on his bike by himself. Last year he started riding it by himself without the assistance of training wheels. The bike was still to big for him to strattle, let alone sit on the seat while standing; thus allowing himself to give a push of. We got it the year before when he turned 4. So he has been trying to get it down.
Well he would get really frustrated when he would fall down trying to turn the bike on our road when we would go for walks. He would get up kick the bike and say that he hated it. We would gently coax him and tell him that it was OK. Well I ended up telling him that it was a good crash each time that he would crash. After that when I wasn't around and he would crash he would tell me "I had a good crash Dad."
He now has the turning part down, and just in the last month has impressed me with his starting ability. We used to give him a push to get going and he relied on that to much, for when we had him try it on his own he would just get frustrated some more. He would try and push off but not get enough speed to hold his balance. Or he would turn the wheel and the bike would fall on him. Or he would get up on the bike but the peddles would be in the wrong position for him to push, and he would fall over. He did finally start to get it, he would prop up his bike next to a fence post, get on and peddle away. When
Then one day "Dad look!" He did it, all by him self with no external help. Yes he still struggled but he did it. There were a couple of times I tryed to assist hem and I got a "No Dad, I can do it." Now almost 2 weeks later he is flying around loving the freedom that the bike can give a kid.

We may struggle and struggle and struggle but we have to and need to keep going. There will be a day that it will just click. You will be riding that bike by yourself and you were able to get yourself started, you have that skill now and it is second nature. But in the mean time: Don't be afraid to get a push from someone that is there to help you learn.

love life

wes