SOOOO EXCITED!

I just purchased two tickets to CASTING CROWNS CONCERT on April 30th- Next FRIDAY!!! OMG I am sooo excited! They are my favorite and have been forever! I can sing every single one of their songs by heart! I am super excited that Justin and I are going to have a date night...maybe dinner then the concert. I am so so so excited. My favorite man and my favorite band!

The Joy of Spring

Today my team leader comes in my room and tells me that we need to go the long way to lunch. For those of you who don't know- my school is three seperate main buildings then a library building & a cafe building. (its "character") so anytime we go anywhere we have to face the weather. So anyways, back to my story, she comes in and tells me to go through the office to lunch so we headed the long way to lunch without asking questions. Come to find out..this little guy was the reason why... (see him on the brick?)that door is the door to my hallway! We go in and out of the door many many times a day. Thankfully though no kiddos saw him and he was gone by after lunch. YUCK! You can't really see how big he was!! SCARY!! I don't know who would have freaked out more...me or the kids! ha! glad we didn't have to see him!

Ahhh-Mazing

For the past couple weeks I have been trying to find some cheap sandals & boots! I remembered this website one of my sorority sisters had given me in college and I had then gone and bought green, pink, purple, white, (all colors) you can think of high heels- however, now I need some cheap shoes that I can wear all the time! Well I could not think of the website for the life of me- so I messaged my friend and she remembered! YEAH!!!

It is www.gojane.com I want these...And to make it better...only $15 GREAT!! I will be doing some damage this afternoon when school gets out! : ) Their clothes are super cheap as well! PERFECT!

Long Time No See

I have decided that this time of year is just busy and crazy for everyone. My google reader has been down and I haven't blogged near as much! I am through with my observation and finished all my TPRI's! I am so excited. TPRI determines who gets out of school in May and who has to stay till June. I only had 2 kids!! : )I was pretty proud. I still haven't heard about my observation but I think it went well. My kids are still talking about it. I did a lesson on the brain. We talked about the different parts of the brain and when you put your friends down or say something that hurts your feelings your brain "downshifts" and you can't learn as well. Every day now, I hear "J, could you not do that? You are making my brain downshift?" or this one is one of my favorites... "Guys!! Stop talking! You are making Mrs. Knights brain downshift!" : ) Love it!


Yesterday we went on our field trip. We headed to the Children's Museum. It was so much fun. My kids loved it. They had so much fun. After the museum we went to the park and ate lunch and then let the kids run around and play. I'm the smartie though, that left my emergency kit at the museum. It had every kids info for my class and one of the other teachers as well! Also, our personal stuff such as germ x, advil, blood pressure medicine, etc. Thankfully though I called the museum and they have it so I had to go get it after school! I don't know where my brain was!

Pippy

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Genesis 47:13-27

My cousin sent me this is an email, and I just had to share. Its long, but totally worth the read. You can't refute the word of God.

Genesis 47:13-27

Recent Virginia Church Service- Stimulus Sermon

I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in Virginia a hug and a high five. This guy is obviously a leader.

Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is.....It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000 years.

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"Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will to the 47th chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27. Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ".....(reading)...

"Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again. So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. 'There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh.' So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain. What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters? That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master? Yes. But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! 'Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.' God provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained possessions!

But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one. We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call Mr.Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, 'You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh'?

Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.

Bow with me in prayer, if you will...Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says 'And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..' And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to You because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government.

In God We Trust...

Happy Birthday Old Man!

Today is my better half's birthday. We didnt do anything special. When we got home we headed to one of J's favorite restaurants for Birthday Dinner! However, today after my observation we had library and then we had a few minutes once we got back to the room before lunch so we called Justin and I asked him how his day was going, etc. and then told him my kids had something they wanted to tell him so I put him on speaker phone and all 14 of my kids start singing Happy Birthday! They all sing at the top of their lungs and add a cha cha cha after every Happy Birthday and at the end they all sit in silence staring at the phone waiting for his response. (His response was another reason why he is NOT a teacher) He says..."What was that!?" I quickly took him off speaker phone and looked out over my class to see all eyes big with wonder and disappointment and I quickly told him they were singing you happy birthday...say thank you. So I put him back on speaker phone and the eyes lit up when they heard his voice say Thank Yall!

Happy Birthday Old Man! I Love you!! You are my other half, my best friend. The love expressed below could NOT be heard or talked about but must be seen with our own two eyes. I love you.