Back to teaching (well, a little bit)

I started my summer teaching schedule today.  I’m only teaching on Mondays and Tuesdays over the summer, so it will be a nice break from the full schedule.  I added up how many students are taking at least a couple lessons over the summer and I have 45 students.  That’s really not bad considering I normally have roughly 65 students in the school year.  Unfortunately I didn’t do enough planning and prepping for today last week, so I was up to my eyeballs in paperwork and clearing the books and getting new student folders ready (I have SIX new students starting over the summer!)… so it was a busy day.

In other news we had a fun filled weekend:  we went to St. Cloud to visit Shannon on Saturday (pictures to come this week) and then we had a BBQ with church friends yesterday night.  The BBQ ended up being a little more exciting than we expected when they opened their grill to make the steaks only to find a mouse with less than a week old babies living in their grill!  They used their grill less than a week ago–isn’t that crazy!?  Needless to say, there was screaming and running around and holding the dog back… I actually turned away as soon as they started screaming because I thought they had already started the grill and that they were on fire, but I was wrong.  He had JUST turned on the burner and turned it off before he lit anything on fire… The did decide to walk to the neighbors and ask if they would use their grill for supper, though.  🙂