Preparation

This year I want to be a better primary teacher. Not that I was the worst, but I can definitely prepare a little more. I'm going to make it habit to prepare more in advance and not on Sundays. I use to do it in the morning or during sacrament, ekk! But now that church is at nine am, that just isn't an option. And it's a new year and I want more out of this calling, so I'm going to start by putting forth more effort. It's sad that I could have been better with the girlies but we have three siblings this year so aren't the oldest always the ginney pigs, jk.

It's finally hit me, I'm going to miss my girls. They were so cute and spunky. It's a fun age when they're done with pre-school and start kindergarten. They talked about their playdates, and all about their parents! Sending them cute princess cards is on my to-do list this week. :) I especially am going to miss the times like two weeks ago a mom came up to me and asked if I would comment about how cute her daughter looked wearing a white shirt underneath her jumper and that it was modest, etc. I guess the girl broke down in tears telling her mom she wasn't beautiful if she made her wear the white shirt. It's crazy how influential as teachers we are. They soke up everything we say, which totally could be a good thing or bad, haha.

Primary can be a drag. It's hard sometimes feeling like your babysitting and missing the adult lessons in sunday school and relief society, but as I prepared the lesson tonight, the principals are all the same no matter how big or small. I'm still learning new things even with these simple lessons for four year olds. I'm grateful for my calling and this is going to be a good year!

Our new class has boys, and they outnumber the girls 5 to 4. That's going to be a change. I wonder what they will be like? Probably rambunctious.

Along with my hours of reading and preparing, I tried and tried and tried to make sugar cookies. I say try and try because it took some re-dos. They should be simple, I probably made them more complicated than it should have been but a few hours, one hot kitchen and some coaching from Trisha, mission accomplished. It only took two tries to make the frosting though. I guess I didn't realized there's a difference between sugar and powdered sugar. In times like these it's convenient having the Tuckers close by. So now I have some halfway decent sugar cookies for the kiddos tomorrow.