And..... I'm done!!!!!!!!!

Wowza! Talk about a marthon. I worked almost non-stop from last Saturday and finally finished this morning at 11:00 a.m. It's now in the mail.

The boys were getting tired of me not giving them full attention. There were a few tears this morning as I ran up and down the stairs from my computer in our bedroom to the printer in our office. I finally stopped to give them some hugs before I took off for the Post Office.

Thank goodness for Eric stepping up to be Mr. Mom this week! He also helped proofread, figured out how to edit and transfer my teaching videos, and did all of my document scanning. I would not have gotten it done without his help.

Overall, it was a great professional experience for me to go through. It was a lot of work and I really wish I had been able to work on more of it before this week. That's the way it goes. I don't think I answered all of the analysis questions as well as I could have. If I don't achieve this time around, I'm hoping I earned high enough scores in some of the categories to bank them for next year. I'll find out sometime after Thanksgiving how I did on the portfolio entries. In June, I'll take six, half-hour tests over different math and teaching questions. Anyone want to reteach me Trigonometry and Calculus? I'm out of practice on those two.

Time for a nap!

P.S. A special thanks to those of you who helped me buy my fancy calculators and wi-fi system this fall. A lot of what I highlighted in my portfolio involved using those with my students.