And what are my student's doing while i am finally updating my blog?

Yes, that's right. I am updating my blog. It's been almost a year since I last put brain to keyboard and typed out something witty and clever to say. But, none the less, here i go. I have spent the last 9 months teaching, that's right, teaching! I am now a Marketing teacher at San Benito High School, and I have been fortunate to teach a great group of 12th graders , minus one or two I can't wait to never see again. We have only 12 days of school left as of today. Actually 12 days and 2 hours, but whose counting?

Personally, 2009 is a year I'd rather forget. First my dear, sweet, brave sister passed away from breast cancer on September 17th, 2010. It was so very hard to watch my once vibrant and active sister fight and finally succumb to this horrible disease. A few weeks later, a diagnosis I have known in my heart for a year prior, finally was put upon my beautiful son. He has autism. All along I had been praying it was a hearing loss, tonsils, ADHD, anything but what I knew to be true. I have had a long, hard road towards acceptance of this, and I won't lie and say that I deal with it gracefully everyday, but I do my best to carry one and hope that through early intervention, speech therapy and the grace of a higher being, he will get better. If it weren't for my parents and my husband, I would have driven myself and my loser cruier off the Port Isabel bridge a long time ago.

So, those are the reasons why I stopped blogging. Today, a sweet friend of mine started her own blog. She is almost married a year with a sweet baby boy on the way, and something about her youthful optimism got me back to the computer, and that is why my students are working on a research paper while I blog! (who am i kidding, i'm sure at least half of them are off task....)

I am also wrestling with a personal decision that is hard to make. Without going into detail, I want to do something for myself as kind of a fresh start, but monetarily it isn't the best time. But, then I think about my sister and wonder, if there ever will be a "right time" and that life is too short to always deny things for yourself that you truly want. So, decisions, decisions, decisions....