Approved!

After waiting four months, two weeks and a day, my PA teaching certificate has finally been approved!! Hooray!! I honestly can't believe that this day has arrived! Now all I have to do is wait until after the Janurary 20th board meeting for district approval and I will be all set to go!!!! It also turns out that to make up the three math credits I'm missing, I can take the SAT Math Subject Test and if I score high enough, it will count towards that requirement! I'd much rather take a test for around $70 than a three credit course that I have to go to classes, take tests and do homework! Hopefully, that is acceptable for the PDE and I'm going to call to double check (since you never know).

Back to work!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!! Matthew and I made it home in very good time on Tuesday and it truly is a blessing to be able to be at home and celebrate the holidays with friends and family! I love seeing my parents every day! They're sitting across from me on the couch reading a book and doing a sudoku and drinking coffee. Because of all the horrible blizzard/snow that Minnesota got, Matthew and his family stayed in EC this yea for Christmas which turned out to be pretty wonderful since he was able to come over yesterday and play games with my family and I was able to see him on Christmas Eve. How wonderful!

The girls and I are having a hotel sleepover today since Emma got a free night so hopefully we'll be having a blast all night! Matthew and I are going to Minneapolis for a few days and coming back to celebrate New Years and the days after in EC. This trip is already going so fast! I'm just so glad we were able to make it home and that I was able to take off so much work at this busy time of the year!

Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad!!

Homeward Bound

Tomorrow, we're off to the land of beer, brats, cheese and Cheeseheads(a land where no one cheers for the Steelers or says yinz)! We leave tomorrow morning around 5am! Wish us luck as we travel across the country in which will, hopefully, be a snow-free trip!

We'll be back to Pittsburgh in the New Year, lol:)

Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, and Happy New Year!!

Spaghetti Pie

I made Spaghetti Pie last week. It turned our really well!

Terrific Tuesday!

On Tuesday, I called the PA Dept of Ed to discuss when I'd be getting my teaching certificate (it's been about 4 months..the general wait time is three...) and turns out ETS/Praxis typed in my social security number wrong, by one number, so PDE couldn't accept the scores. Lame. I called ETS and they sent it out and it should get there in 7-10 days ( I hope). My reviewer also told me that my Linguistics course that I took at UMD does not qualify for the math requirement here because it was not given by the MATH department! I have to call UMD and UofM and figure it all out today. Hopefully that class counts, otherwise I'll be given a temporary teaching permit good for one calendar year (until I take the remaining math course). Seriously, as Matthew just said "I thought there was this great teacher licensing reciprocity, whereby if you were licensed in a great state, then you could easily get a license in another state." Needless to say it was a frustrating ride to work, wherein I worked an hour later than expected (until 10:30), went to Target and then finally went home.

Matthew had all the Christmas lights on and our song playing on his Mp3 player. My first thought was that it was "the" moment, though thankfully it was not (aka no proposal *phew*). He had flowers on the table, had bought apple cider and was making me a quesadilla with onions:) What a wonderful guy!


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