Hangin'

Happy Monday! I am saying this because I teach and I have it off. Two of them in a row actually. So today is a reason to rejoice. Guess what I have done today?? Given a sax lesson, and driven for about an hour. Other than that, nothing. And it feels marvelous. Heather and I did not work out (yet) due to some scheduling changes, but we plan on doing it later today. Getting back into that routine is going to be very nice.

That's all I had to write about, because there is nothing to report for once:) Yay!


Sam

School, break, Christmas!

Merry Christmas Break! Heather and I are going to OFFICIALLY be on break tomorrow, but today will work. It has been a long and exhausting few months for us. As first year teachers, we've learned to WANT to walk away from our job to push the reset button. Before we were naive and thought we'd always want to be there to make our students better musicians, make our program stronger, etc. But, we have figured out that this is not realistic. Creating your program takes time, effort, and yes, the ability to refocus (and be ok with taking the time to do so).

This break we plan on taking it easy; sleeping in, eating a lot, working out. We will pepper our break with a little bit of preping for teaching, but that will not be our main focus. Although that will make us effective, simply resting will probably benefit us just as much.

All of our concerts went fantastically well. We have not though about it (I don't think), but they were our VERY FIRST CONCERTS as teachers. Considering that, it did go well. Certainly, there were some downsides and some (a lot of) things we need our students to learn to take the next step, but the concerts were a good place to start.

We hope you all have a great Christmas. Jesus is the reason for the season! I intend on trying to really make that a focus of the break. I hope you all do too!

Sam