Welcome!!

Hi Teacher Friends!

I have been a member of the blogging community for quite awhile.  I started my first blog in 2006, entitled "Cherished Moments with My 2 Angels".  I started that blog so that family members who didn't live near us could keep up with our day to day activities as a family of four! My husband Craig and I have 2 children, a son named Drew, and a daughter named Mikayla.  We have family members that live all over the United States, and blogging with pictures was much more conventient than mailing pictures. 

In 2008, I began a weight loss journey where I lost close to 100 pounds.  In 2009, I started another blog, entitled "Happiness Doesn't Come From a Bag of Chips".  My intentions with this blog were that it could document my weight loss journey.  It was about that time that I discovered Facebook.  I found that it was a lot quicker and easier to update a Facebook status than it was to post to my blogs - plus I could more easily update Facebook from my phone. 

So, here we are in 2012, and I have decided that I need a teacher blog about the wonderful things that are happening in my kindergarten classroom, and in all of the wonderful classrooms across our country.  Lots of changes are occurring right now in education, and I believe networking with others is so important, now more than ever.  I will call this blog "Mrs. Meeks' Munchkins" since that is the title of my weekly newsletters to my parents.  My kindergarten students are my munchkins, although I have also been known to call them "goose", "sweetheart", "silly", and "honey".  I believe that my job is to serve the youngest amongst us, and I take that job very seriously! I believe that teaching is a job I was Called for, and that all of those who I have the opportunity to teach have been in my classroom for a reason!  Once they are my kindergarten babies, they are always my "babies", no matter how old they get!  I hope that I teach them half of what these students teach me every day! 

My hope for this blog is that teachers from all over the country will read and share some of the great things that are taking place in their schools or their classrooms.  I hope to use it as a place for reflection and a place for collaboration.  I can't promise how often I will post, but I am hoping to post at least once each week!  I hope to include photos of work samples, TpT products, etc.  Please feel free to do the same, if you are here visiting!

I am excited about this new venture and the possibilities that it brings, and I hope we can get excited together!!