Oh goodness what a school year and a week!!! Where to begin...
So we start out our new school year, my 5th year teaching in GA, with 3 furlough days. UGH, that means, we had 3 working/paid days taken away from us. The first two, were our preplanning days. No Gov. Sonny we don't have ANYTHING to do in our classrooms those two days, we'd gladly stay at home and not work. Needless to say I was at work b/c either way furlough days or not, my room was expected to be completed and ready by open house Thursdays night. Well here comes Thursday night, I'm all ready to go, I have 15 kids, I'm waiting at my door to greet my new students, and here I get my 'new' class list with 23 students. Yes, 23 is our maximum this year. So the night continues and we can't give anything out to the parents b/c we were basically told to tell them that they might be in my class but then again they might not. My parents were so kind to me, but not happy about the situation at all!! Well also by the end of the night I had one more special ed. students so now I have 24 students in my room 5 of whom are special ed.
We are now in week 4 and we were told since the beginning of school, yes we see you need another teacher.... ok... so you see we need one school board, now what are you going to do about it? And we hear nothing.... then we hear, yes you should get one... then we hear no you might not get one... then we hear no you will not be getting one. I am freaking out. My class is FULL FULL of talkers and distractors for my special ed students. I have too many students!!! So we move four students out. I am now down to 20... ahhhh nice!! Then the VERY next day we were told move a teacher out of 2nd to first grade. OMG why couldn't they have done this 3 or 4 weeks ago??!?!!! Oh well... so I did get to move 4 more students out as well as other teachers that were maxed out. I am now down to 16 and it has been great!!
Then this past week... we were called up and said hey we want to show your house. Dave and I are like ok... whatever, this has happened about 3 or 4 other times, but we don't think our house has ever been showed. So we straighten up, and clean a bit but we don't go out of our way for anything. Go figure when we clean up like this we get an offer. Wow!! totally wasn't expecting that! What do we do? Man I have prayed so much this past week!! We didn't really care of the buyers offer, so we counter offer. His offer was a fair offer to begin with, but it's not what we wanted. He then counter offered again. We then sat down and really hashed out the pro's and con's or moving/selling and where would we go. Dave doesn't have a job. What do we do. We decide to reject the offer and possibly pull the house off of the market. We're good to go right? WRONG!! 10 minutes later the realtor calls back with the original counter offer!! We feel that this is a sign from God saying hey this is your last time, take it. I have given you 2 options to take it already, this is your 3rd and final chance. So we take it. Dave signed the papers and if the appraisal goes well it's a done deal. Closing will be on September 25, and we'd have to be out by the 29th of September.
OMG I'm freaking out!! We went out house hunting with Jon and his realtor yesterday around Newnan. Dave and I drove around to some area's that we thought might have some possibilities that we'd like. Who knows where we'll actually end up. We're looking at foreclosures mainly but there are houses out there in our price range too surprisingly. Please pray for us that we are heading in the right direction and find the house that is right for us!! We know we won't be able to find a house and sign on one before we close on our house, but we're hoping to possibly have something in mind by the end of the month!! We'd really appreciate the prayers right now!!
Peace Out!! That's about all for now... hopefully I'll be able to update again sooner with more information.
~Dave and Jess
