18th Sep 2006
being a puppymama and beginning again
The beginng of the semester is a time that is so full — so much going on as I get three classes together (and this semester I also add to it an independent study and supervising a student teacher in Newark) that it’s hard to take a breath. Then we added a puppy to the mix — a four-month old teething puppy who can go from mellow to nothing but teeth like the flip of a switch. I know, I know — if I was teething like that too I would be chewing on everything I could — this would include soda cans, Bella the downstairs pug, Chris’ laptop, Spenser (who shot out of Willa’s mouth like he had been launched from a cannon). It’s not easy to do work and entertain a baby at the same time, as I am learning well. Yet she has brought such happiness here — Chris and I can’t help but laugh at her wiggly body and broad smile. She knows nothing but happiness. There’s something very right there.
And classes are good, and full. I have plenty of students — two classes of students preparing to be teachers and a reading and thinking class I am very excited about — a challenge for me to get them as excited about reading as I can be. Wish me luck and give me suggestions — I want them to love it too.
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