I know you have been wondering why I have not blogged lately but there is a good reason, I am changing jobs along with everything else that is going on here.  I am getting very excited though because I have a large room and it is a true science room.  I have regular tables and then 8 lab areas with running water and electricity!  How cool is that - just a hint, really cool  and I can't wait for school to start now.  I will start by sharing my room with my best friend (hers isn't ready yet) and then, after three weeks I will have it to myself.  I fell like I have found the lost Incan City!  I changed jobs because this one starts at 7:30am and finishes at 3:55pm and I only teach from 11:01 to 3:55, the rest is prep time so it works out great for me.  Finally I will be home before 6 every night and won't have to get up at the butt crack of dawn !  I will have more time for Chris, Emilio, Ethan, and Bobby of course - I am in heaven.  The only drawback, if you want to call it that, is that I will have to present on the program they are just now adopting, Understanding by Design.  I have been working with this for the last 4 years and it is a difficult concept to understand but once you do, it is a marvelous one for making sure you teach to all the standards. 

I am smiling most of the time now and that is a new thing for me!  I think there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.  My son, Chris, will finally get to face the young man who put him in a wheel chair and my hope is that he finds it in his heart to understand that there by the grace of God goes he.  He could have hit someone the night he got his DUI and fortunately, he didn't.  I do want this young man to see the result of his making a bad choice in a split second.  Hopefully it will bring home to him how easily he could have taken my son's life, he has changed it significantly as it is. I pray that both Chris and Chad will find some closure with this trial, pray for both of them on the 16th of August!  They will definitely need all the strength they can muster. I hope they can support each other in the same way they have throughout the previous 4 months.