A few hours later...running and houses

We've got a tenant in our house for two months. This is an incredible comfort to me. More comforting would be if the people who looked at the house this morning were to buy it, but that's maybe still in the works. Seems lots of people like the house, but few are qualified to own it. The folks who looked at it this morning are in some sort of a credit-recovery program that will allow them to buy a house, and they seemed to express a need to get a house soon. They apparently pulled up in a Mercedes to look at the house. Kevin said that's probably why they are in a credit-recovery program--car rich and house poor. What do we know? If they are interested in the house, and they can get the loan for it, we're totally willing to sell it to them!

10 miler update

As we were sitting having lunch today, Kevin and I came to the agreement that we won't be driving up to Louisville to run the 10 miler tomorrow. There are any number of reasons that we could list. The biggest is that we aren't feeling mentally or physically ready. I know I'm not. I know I could finish a ten miler. After enjoying the sufferfest that is an Ironman marathon--twice--I am confident that I can make any distance if I am willing to slow down enough and suffer enough. The question becomes what I'm looking to get out of the experience. And honestly, weighing all the other pieces of the equation, it just didn't make sense for us to go run that run. 

Reading

I was given a copy of The Freedom Writer's Diaries (or something along those lines for a title) at Christmas, and I just picked it up and started reading it. It's nice to see what a teacher is doing in her classroom that is so inspiring for her students. There's a bit of jealousy in me that I really do thoughtfully seek out opportunities to inspire my students, and I seem to get discouraged and miss the mark more often than I'd like to. But I guess I can just keep working at it. I grow so frustrated b y the state standards that require so much of my kids and take away some of the autonomy that makes a good teacher a good teacher. I seek balance.