Update time!

It has been a while sense I have wrote anything...oops!! I have not had Internet access during the past few weeks.
The week before I went on holiday was a week of just working in my schools not teaching, but doing administration things. It was a week to think about the fact that I have had several children that I have learned to love and grow in our relationship together. It was something to think about that I will not be continuing with teaching all of my children the next term. Three of my children have are graduating from Springboard. Two of them are graduating for good progress and are able to do things back in class on their own. The other child is going back to class because the child is working better with some one in the classroom. I will also be giving some of my children to new volunteers and I will be getting some new ones. Again sad to see them go, but good to know that they will be going to have more time spent with them at Springboard.
It is something to really think that I have had an impact on these children and that they like to spend time with me as I do with them. I am glad to see that they are going back to class but sad to see them go. That I will not be spending the time with them any more.
For the past two weeks I have been traveling through Italy. I have been able to see a lot of things!! I enjoyed my time there, but still missing my community of people that I would have spent my holiday with. I knew that I would be having these feelings but still the fact that the people around me at the time were not my family that I would have had. I know that family is something that one can make with the people that surround them. I just had a bit of a problem doing that when only one person that I went with spoke English and the rest of the people around me really didn't speak English. The people that were around me really didn't speak English it was a bit more Italian. The other thing that didn't really make it Christmas for me was that there was no big meal, a tree and there was no SNOW!! Those things to me make me think about the holiday times. Not having that to me made me think that it has not yet come for me.
When I write this it makes me think about the fact that this time is more about a time for giving to God! That I am saying that I am not happy with what I am doing or what is going on in my life at this time. That is not true I do like what I am doing and I know that I am giving my time and love for these children to God. I give this as a gift to HIM!
I will catch up the past two weeks in the next few blogs in the next week.