Maria's Place

This week..........

.........has been really good.  I was involved in a discussion Sunday afternoon, that gave me a release, a permission to be myself.  I have felt freer and more myself than I have in several years.  I am not even really sure when I started hiding myself.  It was a gradual thing I am sure of it, but one that had taken over, I wasn't free anymore.

That release has been wonderful. I am excited about life again.  I never realized that I had become so closed over. It has been a good week.

* Stouffer's frozen meals - easy dinner tonight
* DVR's - 'nuff said
* online edcation - my Master's is going well
* W@H Ministry
* the stack of books beside my desk

The news isn't good.

I was hit with the news of a school shooting at my alma mater. My best friend works as an admissions secretary there. Please keep the faculty, staff, students and families in your prayers.

New mission

for this blog -- I have my Xanga for personal things -- it will stay that way - I am just comfortable with it.  This one will be more open and more thinkerly topics -- I may even revive my blogspot as a mirror image for this one or use that one for books I don't know.  So hopefully this will be the last of the rambling posts over here.

I have a list of topics that I want to post on and will be thinking of others -- I have varied interests and that will probably be very noticeable here.  But that is okay too.

Where oh where?????

Has Maria been hiding????  You see that stack of books, essays and lesson plans?  Look behind them.  See that stack of papers to grade? Look behind them.  See that grade/plan book, report cards, and curriculum notebook?  Look behind that.  See that messy house?  Look past that.  See those lovable (most of the time) kids?  Look around them.  See that handsome, but some what bedraggled husband?  Look just a little past him.  See that Bible and Disciple study manuel?  Look just a little further.  Ahhhh there she is sound asleep.  Or at least there is where I am going in just a few.  At the moment the computer and blog are stuck between the kids and the husband  but that is getting ready to be shut down for the night.

Later Gators

Is this thing still working?

hello!! Anyone still there?

5 Minutes for Mom has done it again and again!

Today's prize is a Kodak 5 in 1 printer!

Declutter - day 5

Today was kind of easy -- I have been working on this one for awhile, in a way.  I took a milk crate full of things back to school to be used at school.  I gave some away, shared other things and put the rest up to use in my classroom.

Declutter - day 4

I took the old jump and play saucer that has been sitting on my porch for 3, count them T-H-R-E-E years, out in the weather, to the dumpster.  It was looking pretty nasty, so off it went.!

I took the old jump and play saucer that has been sitting on my porch for 3, count them T-H-R-E-E years, out in the weather, to the dumpster.  It was looking pretty nasty, so off it went.!

5 Minutes for Mom has done it again

Some great back to school giveaways
The first one is a Label Maker!
Stay tuned for more!