If you're a bird, I'm a bird

I've always been fascinated with dreams. I've prayed that God would give me the gift of interpretation like he did Joseph in the Bible. I've owned a dream journal and dream dictionary in the past to look up adjectives and nouns from my dreams. Never gained a whole lot of insight from them though. Similar to the green snake in my dream I found out that most of our dreams included things we thought of or saw in our waking day.  I was getting ready to say that I haven't thought about snakes recently, but just remembered that my neighbor told me about a huge dead snake in the road at the entrance of our neighborhood 5 days ago and I've thought about it since.  In my dream, snakes were curled up and stretched out everywhere. They would appear and disappear under furniture. One did strike at me and bite me as I was running by it. I was so paranoid-standing up on furniture, afraid to walk anywhere, looking over my shoulder and under my feet constantly. I ...

I know it has been a long time since I have written a post. I have several drafts on my dashboard (blogger term), but they are deep topics, like attachment parenting and homeschooling and pornography for women. These kind of posts require inspiration, time, research, and much thought, rather than just rambling about my day or current life situation. Rambling is much easier to do than blogging about topics I am passionate about or trying to inform my readers. I started back to school on August 1 as an elementary homeroom teacher. I knew transfering to a homeroom position, that I was going to be required to do more than my role as an EIP teacher. That's why so many teachers want to be EIP teachers. You get paid the same amount of money, but the work load is lighter. When I requested to return to 4th grade homeroom, I was looking for a change, trying to escape a colleague, and in all honesty, I was hoping our house would sell and we wouldn't even be in Athens anymore. I felt ...