Life in Kindergarten

You would think that since I go so long between my blog posts that I would have something super exciting to say when I get around to writing something, but in actuality nothing has changed that much. I’m still living in Salt Lake, teaching kindergarten at an under privileged school and loving my life.

In honor of my little angels this year I thought I would share some of my favorite kindergartener quotes of the day:

• “Ms. Tyler, I love you so much! Sometimes I call my mom Ms. Tyler; she says it’s ok though because you are young and cute.”
• “I know your secret! You are married to the real batman. You can't tell because he is undercover. It's ok. I'll keep your secret.”
• (After the poor kid ran head first into the slide) “Why won’t you cuddle with me?! Ms. Tyler! I need you to cuddle with me! Please cuddle me! It hurts, I need to cuddle!!!!!!”
• “My mom told me that your real name isn’t Ms. Tyler. You want to know your real name? (He whispers) It’s Melissa! She said I can’t tell anybody, but I think you need to know your real name.”

I’m doing the whole Elf on the Shelf thing with my class. It’s the cutest thing. They really think he is real. They tell me they saw him blink during class or that he flew past their window on the way back to the north poll the night before. I should take some pictures of all the trouble our Fred Jingle is getting into. I just love kindergarten!!

For Halloween I let my kids pick my costume. Since I talk about how awesome Batman is all the time they wanted me to dress up as batman. Of course I couldn’t just be a normal Batman, so I did a Pinterest inspired Batman. My roommate decided that she would do the same but with Wolverine, since she is in love with Hugh Jackman. My students loved it and now they call me Mrs. Batman and I’m pretty sure they really think I’m married to Batman.

Here are some recent pictures of what I have been up to. Nothing too exciting but I’m enjoying my life!

 As much as I do love living in Salt Lake I miss home a ton, especially my favorite guys!!

 This little man is the love my my life. My little nephew Caleb.












I had my first ER visit a few weeks ago. The doctor thought I had appendicitis and told me to go to the hospital immediately. He was successful in scaring me half to death, but he was wrong about my appendix. This was the picture I sent to my mom after the doctor told me I was still going to be able to fly to California the next day!

My roommate and I were excited for the first snow fall, but quickly got over that by the second one. Now we are hiding in our apartment until summer comes again.