How to be prepared???

So, as you may know, I am due to have our daughter, Ariya, this Saturday! Well, that is my due date but it really could happen anytime! I am very excited! Also, you may know that I am a third grade teacher so leaving my kids for 8 weeks is not an easy task. I like to be in control of things! But, one thing that I have had to do is be prepared constantly. Every day when I leave my classroom, I have my substitute binder (which I'll post a pic of later!), my lesson plans and my daily behavior chart all laid out just in case something happens! It is amazing how much my life has changed since I started to become more prepared. I can't just leave school at night and say, "oh, I'll do that tomorrow", cause I may be in the hospital tomorrow! I have to be ready. But what this has shown me is how important it is to be prepared. I have not come home with work to do at night cause I get it all done at school just in case I don't come back. It is truly amazing. Also, I have become addicted to pinterest lately and have gotten some AMAZING ideas from it. I now have an absent folder for kids who are absent, and my sub binder just to name a few. I think tomorrow, I am going to take pics of what I have used from pinterest and do an "ode to pinterest" blog soon! How cool would that be??? Anyway, being prepared is awesome and I really think that this should continue even after I go back to work in March! I hope all of you can get prepared. If you're a teacher, I would LOVE to help you out!! So, have a great evening everyone and stay prepared!

Time has flown!

Well it seems that the last time that I posed on here was in July!!! I am so bad at this. Well I am now 38 weeks pregnant and am due in a week and a half! Michael and I are very excited. With 2012 here, I thought that I needed to start doing more things for myself, especially with the baby coming and all! When I started blogging MONTHS ago it was cause I needed more positivity in my life. I was becoming very unhappy with my life due to some unfortunate things that had occurred and I didn't know quite how to handle them. I was constantly being negative about life and if you know me, you know that is not who I am. I feel that I am one of the happiest people but these events that occurred really took a toll on my emotionally. I have always loved to write, especially poetry, and so I figured that starting a positivity blog would help me to see the daily positive in everything.

I want to start blogging again because in a few days, I am going to have a child of my own that I want to instill good values in. One of those is positivity! I want her to be able to look at the world through positive eyes and see the good in everything, no matter how hard it may be at times. I want her to see me doing it and being a good model at it. I want her to realize that even though bad things happen in life, they happen for a reason and we just have to trust.

So, I am going to start blogging again on life's daily positives for me, my family, and especially for my new daughter! I hope that when you are having a "this day sucks" kind of day, you can come here for some positivity!