Road Trip and Medals for our Troops

Hi all, well the deadline has elapsed for us to take adv advantage of a most generous rebate my government had been offering to home buyers….. We felt it was too risky to buy a home here, when we weren’t sure of our ability to secure full-time employment in the area. This economy is crap!! I know so many people who are out of work and struggling. I have been subbing some, but the school year is over now. . We had planned to take a road trip tomorrow, to investigate northern California properties and pay a visit to my daughter who’s staying with her mom in San Diego. We’re waiting until next week however to decide where it is we’ll be going and for how long. We want to do some more research via internet and phone before we leave.

The good news is my “highly qualified” professional teaching certificate (equivalent to the British QTS) is valid in both California and Florida (two States we’ve been looking at) without having to do further testing, filing or waiting. The bad news is both of those States (along with most others) are facing historically high teacher layoffs. What we’ll likely do is return to school and pick up another teaching endorsement in one of the high need areas, such as special education or education technology. Like I’ve said we’re looking at both Florida and California, so we’ll choose one and most likely move there by the end of next week. My fingers are crossed for California as we’re both wanting that, but have to be practical as well. Sometimes we humans can be guided by our hearts instead of our heads, which is the cause of much grief in the long run.

I see that President Obama wants to give our fighting troops medals for “holding fire” on the battle field (see link below)…. What a genius he is, why not just have them load up with blanks so the enemy doesn’t get hurt? You know that war is hell, always has been and always will be…but to tie up the hands of our soldiers is just plain crazy!!!

This being Memorial Day weekend, a big !!!thank you to all of our troops everywhere!!!

Click Link Here – Hold fire, earn a medal