Catching up...

I feel like I could write pages and pages of what has been going on the past 3-4 months. However it would probably take me half that time to do so. Therefore here is a quick glimpse of what my life has been like.

Oh how fast the days go by. It seems like yesterday when I walked away from coaching at Texas Lutheran University to coach and teach at a small town in the hill country. Coming from a family of teachers I knew that teaching was anything but easy but I was prepared for getting there around 7:30 every morning and leaving right after practice to home in time to fix my loving husband dinner and then take my dogs for a walk and perhaps clean my house. (Please hold the laughter out of respect for me.) Instead I get up around 4am to get a quick run in before I get to the school at 6:15ish for morning practice and hopefully get home between 6 and 8pm after having vball or bball practice and possibly catching up on special education paperwork. In my next life I'm teaching kindergarten and not coaching. Anyways the past few months have been a whirlwind of tears, laughter, yelling, and a few thrown clipboards.

I have coached and taught next to a great person who has taught me what loyalty and caring is all about. Keri is the type of person that will never do anything half way. She will put forth 110% at whatever is put in front of her. Its actually quite draining to watch how hard she works. We had met three years ago when we both had moved to San Antonio (following our husbands of course) and I became her assistant coach for a club vball team, and since then we have kept in touch and now became close friends. Its pretty scary to see how alike we are...I'm sure the students love that too! I had the honor of being beside her as she coached the varsity vball team to the 3rd round in playoffs, broke the school win record, and all as the 4th head coach in four years! Oh and along w/ that she has turned around the special education department at the high school. Like I said I'm tired just writing a very brief paragraph about her.

Now its basketball season and I'm realizing that my temper didnt go away...it has just been in hibernation for a few years. Its great to coach a game that has always had a very big chunk of my heart. Now if only I could teach a few of the girls the difference between offense and defense. Then maybe I could move on to what traveling is. (I'm not kidding about the last two sentences.) In just four games I have been told by the refs to calm down. Well if you know me, you know that they might have a problem on their hands! But bball has just started to theres plenty of time for me to learn to relax and take it easy on the refs. You can start praying for me now.

As for Zac, he helped coach his football team to the first round of playoffs and a winning season. I believe that this was just the 3rd year that they had made the playoffs in school history. He seems to be liking it so far but I know he still yearns for the caliber of athletes that college has to offer.

It has been a surprise for both of us teaching special education. I'll just say that its amazing what they do not tell you during your masters program. We both come home scratching our heads and wondering just how some of these kids have reached this level of high school. Not to say that students w/ disabilities cant achieve what "typical" students can...its just mind blowing that some programs just pass them on just to get the students out of their hair. Its a huge mess and we need to change it but thats another blog another time.

So in closing I'm saying thanks to all the teachers and coaches out there. I do not think that you are given enough credit for what you do. I can not find the words to honor you the way you deserve.