It is so hard for me to realize now that I don't dread the month of August anymore. In Phoenix, school starts in August and not towards the end of the month either. So when the calender would creep close to August a sense of doom would invade me. Oh sure the start of the year was fun(setting up your classroom and getting to know your new students), but there was the sad goodbye of leisurely getting up whenever I wanted and going and having coffee(the leaded kind) at midnight because I didn't need to worry about how late I stayed up. But come August each year I would have to shift modes and inevitably I would learn why the last years teacher had cringed when I said I had Billy in my class. But now that has all changed. No longer teaching gives me no excuse to dislike August anymore. I must learn to embrace it. Oh sure it still gets warm and I don't like that. But today is only 71 and we have a nice breeze out. I thought I might as well bake while the weather is on my side. So to … [Read more...]