HELLO WORLD.

This is the first post for this blog.  Really I should come up with something mind-blowing to say.  In my mind I imagine all the awesome feats this blog will accomplish over the years, the lives touched, the inspiration shared, the collaboration accomplished...  That would be the dreamer in me.  Let's face it, this blog doesn't even have the about me section completed.  The blog has yet to find its purpose, its niche, or even more important *for you realists* it still hasn't found it's readers.  It is currently followed by one person, and that one person doesn't count, mostly because she's my mom.

Let me clue you in as to why I would have spent so much time building a website, which I actually love, even when I have no clue what I'm doing.  Back in college, I got started in the wild world of blogging as a reviewer for publishers in that crazy genre called young adult or YA.  I loved blogging. The writer in me just loved sharing all kinds of things and knowing that some people were just bored enough to read it.  

Teaching, as most know, is a tad time consuming *understatement of our lifetime* so most of the time I have little time.  Reading books for publishers on a schedule just didn't work anymore.  Looking back after my first year of teaching, well into my second, I feel that now I miss blogging.  I miss writing and the collaboration.  So I'm going to dive back into blogging, into a brand new pond of education blogging.  That is both terrifying and exciting!  

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to begin sharing what I do in my classroom, activities, and management systems.  I use technology heavily in my class, and let's be real: there is not much out there for middle school science blogs.  I really hope you are willing to hang with me.