I know, I know, not original at all, but Jeff and I are both hopping back on the wagon! We are in pretty bad shape and need to get eating healthy and exercising again. I am basically in the same shape as this summer, which stinks because I was doing so well with exercising and eating well until about mid October. My clothes were all loose, and I felt GREAT. Now the weight has all crept back and I am addicted to sweets. I hate that! We're trying to clear the house of junk, but some of it is Hannah's!
Anyway, yesterday and today I've felt better and have been eating for the right reasons. I just have to be real careful not to focus too much on my failures because I get depressed and turn to food. I've been so hard at work on Board Cert. stuff, I think food has become my stress-reliever, which is so ironic because it only causes more stress. I make food my idol and defile my body with it. Like in 1 Corinthians 6:12-13:
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
I realize it's not sexual immorality, but food is meant to nourish my body, not for me to long for it and eat more than my body calls for. This will no doubt not be the last such entry, but I'm resolved to keep focusing on the prize, on Jesus and His love for me, not my temporary body. The true damage I do when I give my heart to food is not physical, but spiritual. I will ask His help to focus on those rewards, of losing the desire to turn to food and finding my fill in Him instead of losing weight. That is my resolution for 2008!
Sunday, December 30, 2007
NBPTS
NBPTS (National Board for Professional Teaching Standards). I'm going for certification in EAYA-WLOE (Early Adolescent to Young Adulthood - World Languages Other Than English) - Whew! How's that for some acronyms?
Yeah, I should really be working on my entries right now, but I'm just going to take a moment to post. Most of my waking hours it seems go into working on National Board Certification. I love that Hannah, being 6, doesn't just let me work. I mean, sometimes she does, but I need someone who will kick me out of workaholic mode. I love my job so much it's actually my hobby! At least that's the way I think of it - I'm always coming up with a new idea for a lesson or doing something with technology for school. However, the Board Certification stuff is actually work. You have to be so mentally "in the zone" to do it. It's so worth it, though. I really have analyzed my teaching on such a different level. It's not about creating some fluffy lesson plans; you videotape yourself, analyze and reflect based on worthy standards in 4 entries (~16 pages each, and you are cutting out everything possible to get it all to fit!). Oh, and there's a hideous 4-hour exam too. Only 1/3 of people pass the first time, and I intend to be one of them - I, or more like my husband, needs this to be over in June. My sacrifices are their sacrifices, and so onward I go.
Yeah, I should really be working on my entries right now, but I'm just going to take a moment to post. Most of my waking hours it seems go into working on National Board Certification. I love that Hannah, being 6, doesn't just let me work. I mean, sometimes she does, but I need someone who will kick me out of workaholic mode. I love my job so much it's actually my hobby! At least that's the way I think of it - I'm always coming up with a new idea for a lesson or doing something with technology for school. However, the Board Certification stuff is actually work. You have to be so mentally "in the zone" to do it. It's so worth it, though. I really have analyzed my teaching on such a different level. It's not about creating some fluffy lesson plans; you videotape yourself, analyze and reflect based on worthy standards in 4 entries (~16 pages each, and you are cutting out everything possible to get it all to fit!). Oh, and there's a hideous 4-hour exam too. Only 1/3 of people pass the first time, and I intend to be one of them - I, or more like my husband, needs this to be over in June. My sacrifices are their sacrifices, and so onward I go.
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