Finding Krissi

Student teaching, student teaching, student teaching, my whole life is wrapped around student teaching. All I can say is it has been awesome!  Yesterday on my way home I was thinking about how worried I was about student teaching. The list of concerns was long and at the very top of the list was the question, "what if I hate teaching?". Since then I have come to realize that I love teaching. I have also learned that when you are doing what you love you are filled to the brim with happiness. Follow your passion use to seem like cheesy statement. Now I know that when you find that thing that matches up with who you are life is full of potential. This journey has been amazing and I couldn't have done it without Brent. I have come to realize that he is essential to my life. He is literally my other half. He completes my life. Over the past six weeks he has taken on the roll of mom like a trooper. The house is clean, dinners made, and kids are taken care of. It ...

I am currently ignoring a very long to do list. A list, that no matter how many things I am able to check off as done, continues to grow. It is exciting and exhausting all at once. Today, I was asked by the Young Men's President how I was adjusting to my calling. I stopped for a second, thought, and started to laughing. I told him I have so much going on I haven't really thought about how I felt. Everyday is just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and getting done everything that needs to be done. Not to say I haven't learned anything from my calling. I am learning lots and lots. In fact, here is a short list of some of the things I have learned. #1 People think that when you are the head of the organization you are at the top. I have learned that in truth you are at the bottom. The bad thing about being on bottom is all the crud runs down to you. All the negative feelings, complaints, injustices, and not fairs land on top of your head. Sometimes it ...