Back in March, I was pink slipped from my teaching job. Fortunately, they were still hiring for my position and two days ago, I re-interviewed for my job. I was up against several highly qualified and amazing candidates with years of experience, but ultimately, my experience over the last year at Crossroads, the reading skills I implement into the English classroom, and my strong desire to come back won me back my job. While it will go back down to the .67FTE, I was told by one of my APs that there is a very good chance that it could become full time before the school year starts! While Luke and I can afford for me to continue the part time position, it would be awesome if they could bump it back to full time... All I have to say though, is that I am SO glad to not have to fill out teaching job applications this summer. Those are super time consuming. In fact, if I could only use one phrase to describe my summer of 2010, it would be Applications!
Our school is getting a new principal (our current one is retiring at the end of this school year), and it was just announced yesterday that one of our current APs has been hired for that position! I'm very happy with how the principal interviews resulted because Nancy has been in my corner all year and has been enthusiastic about my professional growth since September.
Lucy is now 4.5 months old and is growing like a weed! Here she is a month ago in the Dwight chair (we call it the Dwight chair because for Easter, we purchased the IKEA chair for ourselves, and since Dwight was our little Easter bunny at the time, it became his gift to us):
And here she is this past week:
It's hard to believe that this little cuddle bug (who is currently curled up and sleeping on my lap right now) will become a giant dog in just a short amount of time. We continue to take tons of pictures and videos of her, so feel free to visit http://lucylorenz.blogspot.com for more updates on her!
In other family news, Luke's sister graduated this week and got a job offer all in the same day! Congrats to Becca! Also, my sister, Lauren, graduates from UMD today with her degree in English (for being someone who never wanted to copy me, I find it highly entertaining that she has the same B.A. as me!). Congrats to Lauren!
Only 18 more school days until summer :)
