Would You Rather...

Would you rather teach a classroom of pre-teens or a classroom of adults? Today my answer is the pre-teens. I'm still teaching the Sunday school class in my ward and after the last few weeks of trying to get people involved, I am just really discouraged. Today we were talking about Luke 2, the story of Christ's birth and no one would answer even the simplest of questions about a story they've heard all growing up. When my 6th graders do something like that, I know how to fix it, but I can't do what I would do with my 6th graders with the adults...they wouldn't like being treated like children, but that's how they're acting! I get so excited about my lessons every Sunday and think, "this will be the week!" and then I feel like I'm shot down week after week. Come on people!

I survived parent-teacher conferences this week. I had two more tell me that they are planning on moving...one next week and the other in May. It's hilarious how it always works out to be someone in my class but it always happens to be the best students.

I've been working on deep cleaning/organizing my house the last couple of weeks. I feel like I'm digging myself out of the holidays. So far, I only get to one room each weekend, but they're the rooms that are most important to me to be clean at this time. My bedroom is now a safe refuge again, the only thing is that I don't spend very many waking hours in there, but I need it to be a place that I can always be organized. The next is my office/guest room...the double doors are always open so everyone sees inside the room. It suffered all the excess from my bedroom as I removed anything that was not bedroom-related now that I have an "office" space. Next will be the kitchen and living room. After that, it will probably have to start all over again.