New to Town-LaPrade's on the Move

7/1/15

The past few weeks, my life has been a bit of a whirlwind.  While I am thankful for the oh so many blessings in my life, and I REALLY AM, I am also so ready for the feeling of settledness (I needed to make up this word).  Back in November, I got engaged to the absolute love of my life and best friend.  Back then when life was all calm and groovy I said "Hey, lets get married July 11, 2015, you're a coach, I'm a teacher, it will be a summer break, hey what a grand idea." HA!  Then the first week of summer vacation when we are sitting pretty and enjoying our first free week-BAM, life happened.  Kinney (my fiance) has been an assistant baseball coach for six years and during the first week of summer he interviewed, was offered, and accepted a head baseball coaching job.  2 and a half hours from our hometowns.  One month before our wedding.  I told him years ago that I would support him and be by side where ever life takes us, and I truly do mean that, even today.  So here we are, in Paradise, Texas--Population 400, ready to take on the world.   Basically the way the world, or the coaching world anyway, works is that when they get offered a job, the baggage (AKA the teacher wife) gets a job as well IF they have any available.  I have known plenty of wives who did not get a job because there simply wasn't one so I am very grateful to say that I was offered a job too.  And a good one at that.  As I have stated before, I have taught 3rd grade ELAR for 3 years.  This year I will be doing 5th grade WRITING (YES-Writing ONLY)! :) I am VERY excited but also VERY nervous because the curriculum they use here is different than the writing curriculum I used in Van.  Oh, and did I mention that my hometown was hit by an EF4 tornado May 10 and had to shut it's doors for the remainder of the year and next year my campus will be moved to portables to allow Kinder and First Grade to take over our building because theirs was demolished.  Because of this, we have not been allowed back into our rooms and have no been able to touch or see any of our things since May 8th.  The hope is that I will finally be able to get into my things that have been moved into portables for the next school year by August 1 and make the 2 hour trip to their new home.  While this is all exciting and crazy and stressful, the underlying fact is that I have a beautiful home, I have a wonderful job that I am so eagerly looking forward to, I have my sweet four legged children, and I have my very best friend in the entire universe right beside me as we jump in head first holding hands.  Life is good :)