the games we play

for the past hour, while watching the mavs/spurs game, michael and i have been playing a game of charades.

it's hilariously fun.

i never realized how bad i am at this game.

i'm ready...and i hope you are too - this is a super annoying post

i'm ready for a house.

did you know that every time i wash dishes, water splashes all over the counter. that's not because i'm a messy dishwasher, it's because the sink is so small and the faucet sprays weird. it's annoying.

i'm ready for a house.

have i mentioned that when you turn on our bathroom lights, a really annoying vent/fan thingy comes on with it? it's loud.

i'm ready for a house.

i'm tired of having to clean up my dog's, ahem, potty break.

i'm ready for a house.

as wonderful as it was to finally have our real couch in our apartment, michael and i are getting really annoyed having to watch tv together like this. in fact, the other night, we had switched sides on accident and michael couldn't even watch tv. he honestly said that it felt too weird to turn his head to that side and he couldn't see the tv properly. how sad are we?

i'm ready for a house.

i need more room in a freezer than i have in this one.

i'm ready for a house.

i'm tired of hearing so much noise outside at night time. the other night, there was a guy and a group of his friends drinking and hanging out on his balcony. it was like 2am. they were loud. i almost went outside with the beebee gun.

i'm ready for a house.

maybe my friends and family will come visit more when they have a comfortable place to stay and they're aren't jolted awake because of a stupid vent!

a pain in the...

about two years ago, my wisdom teeth started coming in. it was really weird though, because only an incredibly small portion of my tooth was visible through my gums. over the past 6 months, those sweet, little wisdom teeth have started coming in more and more.

i think i know what babies feel like when they're teething! poor things! no wonder they're in such bad moods!

for awhile there, my teeth would hurt on one side for a day or two, then the pain would pass. in fact, the pain wasn't even that bad. now, in the past two weeks, the pain has been really bad and extremely consistent. it won't go away. my mouth hurts on both sides all the time. it hurts the worst right when i wake up. today, my mouth was hurting so bad that it gave me a headache. with all this never ending pain, my emotions have been starting to show themsevles. today, i left my room for a quick bathroom break (don't worry, my kids were supervised) and on my walk through the hall, i could feel my eyes tear up and a lump form in my throat. i got myself together before it was too late, but i still felt like a fool. i know hurting teeth is nothing to cry about, it's just that i'm just ready for it to be over.

michael and i are in the process of looking for a dentist and oral surgeon. it's just that we live in a really big city. i'm hoping he chose someone today and gives them a call.

it would be totally worth it for me, to spend my spring break in bed recovering, as long as i could be rid of this pain.

all of this pain, sure is a pain in the hiney.

a new birth

we are housing luna moth cocoons in our classroom.

today, one hatched. his name is Flameball. his wings are drying beautifully as he hangs upside down from a leaf.

we're all so proud.

chores stink

what makes it so stinkin hard to put away the 72 loads of clean laundry you spent your entire saturday working on?!

i mean, seriously! i did move my clothes to the guest room (which, if you recall, is where my dresser and tinsy closet are located). unfortunately, nothing made it past the bed.

except for the few piles i thought i would bring into the bedroom when i first got started, (that now sit on the floor), i have gradually piled all of michael's clothes into a laundry basket (it's overflowing). that basket remains in the living room floor where i left it 3 days ago.

i have participated in many washings, where directly after the dryer, i folded and put away. maybe i'll get that way again for the summer. sad to say, but i'm not that way now and i don't care.

if you are not like this and wonder how on earth i could, read this.

out with the old, in with the new...ugly style

well, on monday afternoon, i was forced to pack up my classroom like it was summertime. our entire school is having the carpet removed from our classrooms. it is being replaced with tile like the stuff that covered only about 1/6 of the classroom floor and all of the hallways. there is now a beautiful, two-square, forest green tile border between the old white tile and the new white tile.

classy, huh? to top that off, they aren't even gonna wax this floor until summer. talk about ugly.

it wasn't fun having my kids move everything around (see, I had to be ready for all of this at 2:45, the time the bell rings), and then sit on the floor for the rest of the afternoon. i guess maybe it could have been like a goodbye for them. sit on this nasty old carpet that you'll never see again.

the thing is, the carpet wasn't that bad and now i'm stuck with ugly white, bright tile that is hard and cold. it's too easy for the desks to move on (you know how i am about things being perfectly organized), it's too hard for the kids to sit on every morning during group time and every afternoon during stations. we don't even have a rug. sure, i could buy one from some great teacher supply store, but i don't really have $400 to spend on a rug for my classroom right now.

i guess i'll have to make due.

the kids actually handled everything okay today. they spent the day doing independent work and then afternoon stations while i put the room back together. it was stinkin ridiculous. could we not have waited for summer, or at least spring break, for this?!

anyway, i'm glad the whole process is over and i'm just hoping our principal will have mercy on our souls and give us some carpet. it's just too stinkin loud with 21 first graders and nothing to muffle the sound...

westover hills

michael and i tried out a new church this morning.

westover hills ag.

i must say, it was one of the strangest experiences of my life.

don't get me wrong, the church was beautiful (and big), the worship was nice (although there were many songs michael and i didn't know) and the preaching was good, but...i just have a certain expectation for preaching.

i've had my own experience of visiting other churches, well up until fourth grade anyway. since then, i've gone to my dad's church. i must say that i've rather enjoyed that. i just love saf. i love the worship there, i love the people there and i love, love, LOVE the pastors there. it's just weird for me to be looking for another church, knowing that any that we find could never compare to the one we truly love.

the pastor this morning preached on God's pay days. the main idea was prosperity in things not only wordly but in the blessings God gives you. pay attention to things that are not only monetary. He gives graciously to his children.

every time he mentioned pay days, a picture of a payday candy bar popped into my head. now, i know we've been eating really healthy this week, but still, it was a little ridiculous.

anyway, though we liked whag okay, we think we'll keep looking. maybe something a little smaller, maybe something a little more like home.

no matter where we end up, we know Jesus will be there.

i miss you daddy.

alright, something exciting!!!

i've done 7 loads of laundry and i'm not done yet. what does that tell you?

yea, we've been living lazily lately.

i'm sorry you can't all have this much fun on a saturday.

on a lighter note, i did sleep in until 11:30 this morning. eat your hearts out ladies.

i know, i know. enjoy it while i can before i have kids.

what do you think i'm doing?

the thing is

that by the time i get home from work, i can hardly focus long enough to see what's going on in everyone else's lives, let alone focus long enough to post something myself (how do you women teach children and then go home to children?!).

i've always been a reader. it's what i love to do. give me a long book or a short post and i'm happy. i've never been a writer, and although i love blogging, there is some times something so blah about writing my own.

i'm sorry that i am so boring. it's just that i come home from work, read your blogs and totally zone out for about 45 minutes watching the food network. i'm just tired of thinking. if my six year olds would back off for a few minutes everyday, i'd be a little better. well, who knows actually, because i've actually had a pretty good week with those little twerps.

anyway, i'd just like apologize and say that i wish i had something other than my piles of laundry and 1/2 in dust covered furniture to talk about. i guess i could post about how much i miss my friends. spending a couple hours (maybe if we're lucky) once a month, is just not good enough for me. why did i say i wanted to buy a house here? why not san angelo? stupid.

well, maybe i can write later this weekend about how i don't have any laundry or how i've taken beautiful pictures of my children...oh wait, nevermind.

i'm such a sucker

michael left before i got out of bed this morning. he had a training session today in austin.

i went to work as usual and let my kids pass out their valentine's right before lunch. then, i went to lunch. i was sitting there eating a sandwich when the secretary from the school walked in holding a red vase full of red roses and purple flowers.

"mrs. kotze...these are for you."

it caught me off guard just because i wasn't expecting anything, but the flowers are beautiful. they are exactly like a bouquet michael sent me when we lived in san angelo. aaahhh, they were my favorite flowers ever and he remembered that. the card said,

"everyday feels like valentine's day with you in my life."

i almost cried. i am such a sucker for the cheesy, sweetly romantic lines. i totally want my husband to feel that way about me...at least one day a year.

i proudly carried my flowers back to my desk and breathed them in for the rest of the day.

my flowers are beautiful and so is my husband and my marriage.

thank you baby. you are the love i've always dreamed of and so much more. thank you for making me feel super special and loved today. you are totally speaking to my romantic heart. i can never express how i truly feel about you. "i love you" just doesn't do it justice.