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2 bad moms skip to main skip to sidebar 2 bad moms wednesday may 17 2023 still around checking in on old sites and saw this poor abandoned blog still getting hits wow facebook became the go to for life updates and all such things for a while now not so much twitter isn t really for life stuff but probably not going to really start on here again we made the move to texas it was a very crazy move once we got here long story short we showed up for closing on the house in va on the right morning signed all the papers and started the two day drive to tx the buyers of that house ended up finally doing there part over three weeks later that was a very stressful three weeks life is good here we will be eternally grateful to have been in texas during the insanity of the past few years it was much less insane here noah is great he s taller than me now almost taller than ching he s about to finish 7th grade he s in band and plays golf he s an amazingly good kid we still have bloo and peppa we now have a boy cat named ghost we also have two chicken ladies running around the backyard and a couple of fish if you actually read this leave a comment and say hi posted by beth at 9 40 am no comments wednesday may 8 2019 i m not stressed you re stressed i keep waiting for the point in this process this sell your house move halfway across the country to buy a house start a new job hope the boy isn t too worried or sad about all of it start life over process when i exhale and enjoy the process life is all about the journey right this week was not that week we got the pictures of the house done this morning for the listing the house wasn t perfectly ready but that s ok it is ok right i m a list maker a planner with backup plans for my backup plans there are still many steps in this process and even as it becomes when when than if there are too many unknowns for my taste right now i keep telling myself this is where the rubber hits the road in christian life what s the point if there s not peace and joy even in these stressful parts of the journey it s not about my faith it s about his faithfulness it s tough sometimes but there s a lot of life on this side of the move there s beautiful weather even if half of the days are rainy there s the boy playing in the neighborhood with kids sitting in the front yard with bloo because she loves to be there watching our current little part of the world the end of the school year the coming end of the dance year time with friends before the move so much to enjoy there s a song lyric on amanda cook s new album that is so simple but means so much this i know of this i m sure that you hold my whole world posted by beth at 5 12 pm no comments saturday may 4 2019 the rest of the story 2 as i mentioned tuesday we met with our realtor to put our house on the market that meeting went well now we re working on getting the house picture ready whew going all marie kondo around this place ha on thursday and friday a company ching had applied to flew her down to dallas to do an extended interview get to know each other i was so nervous thursday lots of thoughts and prayers about faith and having any and that it s not faith once you know the outcome but mostly i felt things would work out and they did friday they worked out a start date which she and i had discussed she ll be down there on the 28th of this month that ll give her time to house hunt while noah and i finish up things here it ll be hard on noah but hopefully excitement will win over worry so much to do listing pictures small and medium sized repairs applying for mortgage for a new house finding a new house packing and on and on i know so many of you are experts at all this stuff i joked when i got my virginia teacher license i d end up trading it in for a texas one gotta start that application process soon so it s really happening going home posted by beth at 3 00 pm no comments tuesday april 30 2019 the rest of the story i posted on facebook this morning because it so awesomely reminded me that it was ten years ago today i got the keys to our house crazy we d been in northern virginia for two years and houses were cheap enough and we thought it made sense to buy we didn t really intend to stay for ten years ching wasn t even in town she was down south doing army officer stuff that ended up being a weird series of events that ended up with her finally getting out of the army although not quite the way she intended i did the entire move even having to sign all the paperwork for her packing and moving all the stuff plus our dear ramen and silly and little man then i got to unpack it all we had a lot less stuff then just over a year later we had noah fast forward to the past almost ten months and her finally getting out of defense contractor work again just not in the way she intended as part of this crazy time in our lives and it seeming all the doors were closing on reasons for us to be here we had scheduled an appointment with a realtor for today we had no idea it was ten years to the day later our house is going on the market we re moving back to texas the dallas area god has been so amazing this year he s taking us down a path we could never have anticipated it hasn t been easy but it s been so good the other day i decided it felt like being at an amusement park waiting and waiting and waiting in the long snaking lines to get on a roller coaster hot tired bored but excited nervous and now we re just getting into the seats we know god is going before us and making straight the path and if the setup has been this crazy then what s on the other side should be amazing posted by beth at 8 48 pm no comments monday march 4 2019 thoughts on standardized testing i was a student in texas in the 70s and 80s i remember when testing became a thing i understand why it became a thing kids graduating high school with no reading or math abilities and no one being held accountable yes it sucks we couldn t trust teachers or parents or principals or anyone else to actually make sure kids were learning what they were supposed to be learning then i suppose understandably testing took over there became a loop of matching test questions and outcomes to curriculum and so on in the 90s and 00 s i worked various jobs for the testing industry i saw how test questions were tested how passing standards were set i spent at 8 10 years scoring essays of all grades i also saw a real decline in writing abilities over that time so now we all complain about the stress and the teaching to the test and the teaching of testing strategies but what if we didn t what if we just stopped stressing about the test what if we didn t teach to the test what if we didn t teach test taking strategies what if we simply never put the curriculum standards the actual standard by number in the classroom what if we never talked about the test with the students what if we simply taught the students what the curriculum says is appropriate for age and grade level gave them testing assessments along the way that were similar enough to the test and when the time came just gave them the test i know i know it s all about the results and the money all the money so much money tied to those results but what if we just left the kids out of all of that part of it and just let them be students learning cool stuff in school posted by beth at 7 32 pm no comments thursday july 26 2018 what he remembers every day when noah gets in the car after summer school i ask how his day was first he always tells me what he ate of course then i ask if they did math how did that go not well what did they read he doesn t remember the other day there was a funny exception to his not remembering what they read i wish i knew exactly what the lesson was there was reading and some video he told me all about einstein and when they took out his brain to study it he asked if that was real how did they get his brain out he also vaguely remembered something about cars traveling at least something got his attention posted by beth at 12 08 pm no comments wednesday july 25 2018 long standing jokes with noah i can t believe our boy is going to be 8 in a few days it s getting harder to remember life before him at my age that s not really surprising i started playing with his little feet while ching was still pregnant she d be asleep i d have insomnia and noah would be moving around i assumed it was his feet somewhere along the way i started joking with him at bedtime that i was going to eat his feeties i d joke how delicious they looked that i might put some bbq sauce on them he always squeals and says no don t eat the feeties we still do this some nights the other thing we ve done for a few years is joke that whenever he has the hiccups it s because he s growing every time he gets them i tell him to stop growing posted by beth at 4 35 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom contact us name email message more moms bad hair days doing 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