GOD IS GOOD!

Danielle's surgery could not have gone better! The surgery was just around 4 hours or so and she was in a room less than 24 hrs post op. Prayers have been answered and more are requested for recovery...she is a fighter and will do more amazing things!

school update...
i now have 21 angels ;) and for a little while on tuesdays and thursdays i have 24 students with 3 of them being students with special needs-in addition to my 3 with special needs. It's been stressful and busy, but it's such a different kind of stress from last year...i have a bunch of work that i will have to do this weekend, mainly because i haven't done much of all this week!

I would like to introduce you to one of my best friends...she is also one of my husband's best friends...her name is danielle, although i usually call her dani.
she is an AMAZING friend and person, she went to lambuth with me, and worked at lakeshore with me, now she is finishing up school at mtsu and she works with a youth group in the boro.
she has 2 wonderful dogs and i just love her dearly.
just over a year ago dani found out she had heart problems...i went with her to one of her cardiologist appointments...we talked, we cried, we have laughed and so much more...
well on friday morning she is having her first surgery to fix her heart problem.
her cardiologist and surgeon are amazingly talented and she has a thermal blanket of prayers being sent up on her behalf but i ask you for more prayers, add to the thermal blanket of prayers so that she can feel the community that is praying for her and the entire medical staff!
i pray for a smooth and productive surgery with no complications and an even smoother recovery.

dani-if by chance you read this...i hope you know how much you mean to drew and i and i have gotten all my work done for friday and then next week so we will be leaving jackson as soon as i can walk out of my classroom tomorrow afternoon! I LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH and you have an ARMY OF PRAYER WARRIORS praying for you!

just a few things for a LONG WEEKEND

*lesson planning
*julie and julia
*cleaning the apartment
*laundry
*modify activities
*cuddle time with danielle
*trip to nashville
*selling books to mckays
*buying books at mckays
*netflix on the xbox
*sleeping late
*more lesson planning
*center activities
*trip to trader joes
*car ride
*clean out car
*laugh
*smile
*grocery shopping
*church

just a few things on my to-do list for the long weekend...no biggie-HAH!!

Hump Day!

I have made it over hump day, and it's a long weekend coming up...

I have so many different feelings right now than I did this time last year. Last year doesn't even begin to compare-from the very stressful job, to the getting the swine flu, to the planning a wedding, to the side effects from the swine flu and trying to go back to work to early, to the newly married life, to so many different things...I just cannot express how blessed and lucky I am to have done so much over the past year.

We have been in school for 23 days today...we count every day! It's hard to believe that I have already torn the 1st month off my teacher calendar off my desk...it's hard to believe that progress reports go home on friday...it's just hard to believe!

Dive into 1st Grade!

So I know that I didn't keep my last promise about keeping the blog updated but so far this year is SOOO much smoother than last year. So my goal is to keep this updated, and update at least once a day! I will begin with just some pictures from my classroom.

These were taken right before school started and now I have a different seating arrangement, more students, and words on the word wall...and we're working on our 5th week of school while some schools are just starting...

The view from the front of my room looking towards the back door. The things on the floor are lillypads. The kids line up on these and they have helped make our lines very straight and nice looking!

My classroom library. Dive into a good book! The kids love to sit on the couch and I have 2 bean bags over there too.

The view from my door looking into my room. The front board area and carpet is where we have morning meeting and it's also where I do a lot of whole group instruction.

Dive into Mrs. Goldsby's 1st Grade! The outside of my door. The fish next to the door have the kids names on them!

it's been too long...

...it really has been way to long since my last post and really since a consistent sting of posts, not that anyone really reads this, but for me at least, it's been WAY TOO LONG!!

So much has gone on since I last posted...I have gotten my classroom ready for 1st graders, Drew and I went on a road trip, I got my hair chopped off, and so many other little things that have made this month so interesting...

Yet again, my goal is to write or post something each day and hopefully with my routine I will actually complete that task...

stream...and pictures

it's been wayyyyy too long...but i just can't seem to get back into the groove of posting.


school starts back soon-we can get into the building on the 15th to work, i plan on spending the 15th and 16th up there working and then no more until i have to be up there for inservice, we'll see how well that plan goes!!


wishing that i could get into East to work on my room and get all of my school stuff out of my living room and garage


drewby and i are taking care of my uncle's house while he is in new jersey working he has 2 dogs and 3 cats and it's been so much fun, another fun note-marv has offered us his house-to rent it for the same amount as our apartment but we would get another bedroom as well as a backyard and a garage...there's some work to be done and it would be a little while before we would move in but it's a promising thought