As Everything Develops......

[lLife has its ways of surprising us!! A few weeks ago I visited one of my medical specialists. He concluded that the medication route was not working well for me. It was time for a procedure to make my body work better.

As I thought about all of this, I realized that the problem was not that the medication was not working well. It was, instead, working too well!! It was causing a problem for me!! This meant I needed to get off the medication. I concluded that a surgical procedure that would eliminate the problem I was having may just be the way to get off the medication--for good!!

The procedure was this past Thursday, March 3, 2011, and it seemed to go okay.

The point of all this is that I don't really know what may happen whenever I seek to correct one problem in any part of my life. Interventions always disrupt the current system in some way or ways. Some of these ways are good and some are bad (usually referred to as side-effects).

This applies to all parts of life. Whether intellectual, emotional, spiritual, or physical the effects of any intervention are disruptive in some way or ways.

I am recovering well from the medical procedure so far. How will I recover from other procedures that are currently intervening in the various aspects of my life and the life of my family? Will the effects be positive, negative, or mixed?

Come what may, life is life and I am thankful for it!!

Well--Finally Another Post--Wow!!! It's been a month!!!

It is late at night--again. I have a lot of thoughts on my mind and I just discovered where to find your comments. Thanks to those of you who have commented and read my posts!!

Gabe is coming along well. We have just polished off one year of court-ordered guardianship by submitting a status report to the judge.

This evening when I came home I was welcomed by a little boy giving me a big hug and saying (not for the first time, btw) "Dad, I love you so much!!" He always says it several times when he says it.

He is back in preschool and loving it. He has several wonderful grown-ups surrounding him with love and therapies. Life is good.

I am also back in school--teaching instead of counseling. I am loving what I am doing and am having the usual challenges of teaching a new grade. My class is full of 32 wonderful kids!! Each one is unique and beautiful in her/his own way. I am the "low count" class. The other two classes have 34 students each. If any new 5th graders register at our school, guess who gets them. Yup, that would be me.

I also am working my IBI and PSR positions and loving that.

These all keep me very busy and the outside-of-school jobs (both professional positions) have so far kept me from catching up fully at my day job. But I plan to get all caught up this weekend--and perhaps get somewhat ahead in my planning.

The superintendent came by this week, observed, and gave me a helpful comment. The principal came by and observed, as well.

One thing a former principal said  in my presence years ago--"Public education is never boring" still rings true.

I am so blessed to have what I have!! These students are wonderful!! I am getting back into the teaching part of education and enjoying being part of the faculty at Jefferson Elementary!!