Link Party!!!!

How much fun is a link party????

I just joined Cara Carroll's link party and I just love reading about other teacher's who have blogs.  It kind of puts a name with a face for all of us who are bloggers and um....blog stalkers!  :)

OK, here is a little about me....

Mr. and Mrs. Walsky

I am getting older!  Let's just stay that I am very close to 40.  Not yet, but feeling it every day.  :)  I have been teaching now for 16 years.  I taught 12 of those in Kindergarten, 2 in 6th grade, and 2 in First Grade.  I also started the year as a Reading Specialist and went back to the classroom because I missed it soooo much!  I will be one of those teachers who never retires.  Yep, that is me....I can see it....pushing my oxygen tank around with my class in the hallway!

I also am a Professor of Early Childhood Education.  I like changing education from the inside.  I really want to prepare our teachers for the "REAL" classroom, not just from a book.

I also am a certified Yoga Instructor!!!!  Love me some yoga.  If the whole world practiced yoga, there would be world peace!  Problem Solved!!!!!

Here are my two cutie pies.  Davis (8) and Jackson (5)

I love these kids!  One looks just like me and the other acts just like me!  I am so glad I have 2 boys.  I don't know how to do hair so god knew that when I was pregnant!

I have lived in Virginia, Florida, and West Virginia.  I met my husband at West Virginia University!!!!  In our minds, there is NO other school.  Let's GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!  It is a pretty funny story how I met Mr. Walsky, but we have vowed to tell everyone we just met in the library, studying VERY Diligently!  There will be no telling of myself at his fraternity party and Mr. Walsky walking outside to see me using the bathroom outside.  Yep...I was the Pi Phi pee-pee girl all night.  Charming Huh??? A real fairy tale.  Hey, he asked me out, and we have been together every since!

Now for the Q & A



Q: What would you be doing if you weren’t a teacher?                                       
A:  I would be a Vet!  I love animals, and science.
Q: What are your hobbies?                                                                              
A:  Graphic Design, painting, refinishing furniture, yoga, learning anything new.                                                                
Q: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?               
A: The President of the United States.  Seriously...Every writing assignment in elementary school, I have me standing on top of the world with the US Flag.  I also wanted to disarm nuclear weapons.  I think my second grade teacher was a little shocked at that one.  It was our Christmas List Project.
Q: What are your guilty pleasures?                                                             
 A: Diet Dr. Pepper or Diet Dr. Thunder(Walmart Brand, and even BETTER!!!!) Starbucks White Mocha, Vampire Diaries.
Q: What is your biggest fear?!                                                                  
 A: Mice and Rats!!!! If there is ever one in the Walsky house, I will be at a hotel.  I WILL NOT come back until I see evidence sent via phone or email of a dead creature.
Q: When you’re on vacation, where do you like to go?                              
 A: Florida to see all of my friends and family.  I miss them like crazy!  I miss the food in Tampa and the atmosphere.                                                          
Q: What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?                                            
A:  Live Life to the fullest.  If you want to do something, do it.  If you want to learn something learn it!  You have been given the precious gift of breath in this life.  What will you do with it???
Q: What do you value most in others?                                                             
A:  Smiles and not taking themselves too seriously.
Q: If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass down to your kids, what would it be?                                                                                                  
A: To see the good in everyone.  Everyone is a reflection of the divine.  God don't make no junk as my mom always says.  Everyone has goodness in them.  Sometimes they drive us crazy, but there is something kind, loving, and divine in everyone.  Find that in someone and focus on that.   
Q: If you could have lunch with anyone in the world….living or dead…who would it
be?                                                                                                          
A:  I am thinking God.  I am so thankful for all I have and all that I can pass on to others.  I would buy God lunch and just say Thank You for all he has done. 

 I think I would also like to go to lunch with Oprah.  Can you just imagine the conversations and experiences she has to talk about???
Now tell us one random thing about yourself:



I once won Publisher's Clearning house for $50 for being the first entry from my state.  I love to tell people that I won Publisher's Clearning House :)  It is just funny... 
I one time got stuck in an elevator when I was 7 for two hours.  I was in a hotel and ran back up to the room for my mom (we could do that then).  These nice guys sang to me the whole time and took care of me.  When I got out, my dad thanked the "The 4 Tops" musicians for taking care of me.  I had no idea who they were.  Pretty Cool