Back to the Grind

Well, playtime is over and it has been back to work for Kyle and Beth for about two weeks now. This means the alarm is back to going off at 5:30 in the morning...yuck! Luckily we both are really close to work, so we don't have to get up any earlier. I (Beth) am back in Kindergarten at Schweinfurt Elementary School. It has been a crazy start to the year. I have one student who is pretty wild. Any day I am not physically assaulted by him we consider it a good day...in two weeks this has only happened once (a half day). I have a class of 14 boys and 6 girls, by the end of this week I should be up to 8 girls. So many boys makes for a crazy time. But I really do love them all and hope that this year I can make our classroom a safe and stable place for them as their dads get ready to deploy. All but two of my kids have dads getting ready to leave for another year long deployment. Oh yes, I have already gotten a nasty virus and am currently fending off a sore throat, I have to get back into the habit of washing my hand constantly with those little germ carriers. Kyle is back doing whatever it is he does. I am not really sure what they do all day, I know they have PT in the morning and I think the rest of the time he just sits around. He did take a driving class last week, which he wasn't to thrilled about. He is busy studying for the promotion board and just found out he has a slot in pathfinder school so now will be studying for that too. Just in case you didn't know (like me) Pathfinders are paratroops who are dropped into place before a major operation in order to place and operate navigational devices to assist the primary drop of paratroops. It is suppose to be a very difficult school...they have a test every day. He is also working out extra hard hoping to go to Special Forces selection or Ranger school. To sum it up...he is crazy.