St. Louis: The Gateway to the West

It's official, Simon and I are moving to St. Louis. I am going to be teaching middle school language arts with Teach for America. We are incredibly excited about having an adventure together and experiencing some place new. I am excited about the opportunity to teach my kids in my class next year and hopefully make sure that they will graduate high school no matter what. It's crazy because I already have all these ideas for an after school yearbook or newspaper club at my school an dI don't even know where I am teaching. What I do know is that it is going to be an incredibly challenging journey probably filled with many tears and agony over trying to decide how to make things understandable for my students. But I am hoping that after these next two years I can say it has all been worth it and I will be able to know that I have changed at least a few student's lives.

Top 10 reasons why I love my Simon

Taking a break at work from logging articles and trying to do something fun:

10. He can cook a mean chicken pizzza

9. He can cook in general..I would probably have Ramen 24/7 otherwise

8. Baby, baby, baby

7. He thinks my nose is cute

6. He really believes I can accomplish rock hard abs

5. movies/tv show marathons

4. tickles (but only in the morning ;)

3. challenging me to think big picture

2. dreaming about our lives together while being outside on the perfect day

1. believing that I can do more than I can even imagine with the rest of my life