names.

no baby.

lest i forget though:

first names
thaddeus
theodore
september
elanore

middle names
elizabeth
virginia

and a photo from just after our first snow...old murphy dome road


right now we have snow snow snow!

dad.

my dad is having heart surgery next week.

stress.

this is what stress does to me at a normal hour of the night.

fall in fairbanks.

dear lisbet,

fairbanks is beautiful in the fall!

it would be great if you were here to come have a
cup of tea with me and take a walk through the birch trees.

but your pictures of norway tell me you are having a good time and that fall is beautiful there too!

please post pictures of you with the dogs. and northern lights.
i don't stay up late enough to see them.

love, sarah

p.s. i never took any pictures of my bangs, and now you'll have to wait till my next hair appointment since they are long and in my face now.

read this now.

How To Talk to Little Girls

read this.

i'm taking multicultural ed right now which unfortunately the teacher has made rather unbearable though i do agree with her on (most) points. she makes me not want to agree with her and our class has gotten rather bitter and antagonistic. but this article fits what we are talking about right now.

if you don't want to read about girl problems...go away.

my cycle started three days ago, (today is day three.) i usually have cramps on the first day, and then however long, the rest of the days are fine. which was the case until today. i was doing homework, feeling great, and then i suddenly had severe cramps. they were a little different than the cramps i normally get during my period, a little higher up, but they definitely started wherever my uterus is. i got up, took some advil and tried to walk them off. they kept getting worse, i had heat running up my arms, and i was getting dizzy and stumbling and my vision was getting blurred. i was fairly certain i was going to faint. i knocked on my classmates doors and finally one woman came out. she had me lie on the floor, and got a hot towel for my abdomen. we walked to the couch together but no position alleviated the pain in any way. finally i fell asleep for three hours. the advil had kicked in, and i didn't feel any pain, but i could still feel the cramps. i felt them all night, and now this morning, but they don't really hurt at all.

i didn't eat anything differently than normal, nor was anything out of date that i ate. i'm fairly positive i'm not pregnant. 99.9% sure. someone suggested ovarian cysts, and another uterine fibroids. we'll have to wait until i can go to the doctor up in fairbanks this fall.

any thoughts?

teaching mission statement.

i became a teacher because i have a strong desire to learn. i am ready for the challenge to make history relevant to middle and high school students. as a teacher i hope to make students as excited about learning history as i am. i will broaden their understanding of the discipline by providing them with tools to research and analyze the past, so that they can make responsible decisions for the present. i want them to understand that history is more than facts and dates. it is a way of understanding and knowing the world around them, to give them a firm context of their place in the world. in line with this i will help students foster an understanding of their personal value and thus create an environment of self-respect and responsibility. i will create a classroom that is safe for students to express and explore their ideas. finally, i will continually seek to challenge myself to know more about my subject and my students.