Seven Random Things About Me and An Award!

I want to extend a BIG thank you to Pam at Pocketful of Centers and Carrie at the Common Core Classroom for giving me a new award!

I am enjoying blogging so much that getting awards from fellow bloggers is like icing on the cake...it just makes it better!

In order to accept the award I have to:

1.  Thank who nominated you. (done)

2.  Include a link back to who nominated you. (done)

3.  Include the award image in your post. (done)

4.  Give 7 random facts about yourself in your post. (see below)

5.  Nominate 15 other bloggers for the award. (almost...just 4 short!)

6.  When nominating, include a link back to their blog in your post. (done)

7.  Let the bloggers you nominate know by leaving them a comment. (done)

So let's start with the seven random things about me:

The first love of my life was Bruce Sprinsteen, I was four years old when I saw his Born in the USA video and declared to everyone that he would be my husband one day!

 

I was one semester away from graduating Mars Hill College with a degree in communication when I finally opened my heart to my true calling.  I switched my major, added 3 more semesters to my college career, and became a teacher within a year and a half of my epiphany!   

 I am a proud alumni sister of Sigma Alpha Chi.  To this day (eleven years after graduation) some my sigma sisters are among my closest and dearest friends.

I was born in a tiny town called Pahokkee, Florida but grew up in the GORGEOUS blue ridge mountains of N.C. and am SUPER proud to call myself a Mountain Girl! 

 

 I have my own Jack and Jill!  Jackson just turned 4 and Jillian is 18 months old. Being a mother is the most amazing blessing ever and I am so thankful for my two sweet bundles of joy!

 

I was named after Raggedy Ann!

 

This remains one of my favorite movies of all time!

I met my husband in a hip-hop dance club! Little Jon's song From the Window to the Wall was blasting and my husband says "the dance floor parted and there you were!" He was wearing a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and a horribly tacky belt buckle the size of his fist.  All my friends tried to make me stay away because they thought he must be crazy.  I just laughed and said "Awww...It's not like I'm gonna marry the guy!"

There you go, seven random things about me.  That was kind of fun!  Now on to the next step...

Here are my nominees:

The Bomb-Diggity Classroom 

The Teacher Garden 

Mrs. Christy's Leaping Loopers 

Teaching with Heart 

The Secret Life of a Teacher 

Little Lovely Leaders 

Mrs. G's Kindergarten in Heels 

Buggy in Kindergarten

Love Luck and Laughter

Clever Little Birds

Wanderings of Mrs. Woodbury

My First Teaching Blog

I am so excited to finally begin my first teaching blog.  It is something I have wanted to do for over a year, and as I am about to embark on some major changes in my teaching career, I thought now would be better than ever!  So the first step was choosing a name for my blog.  Of course, as an elementary teacher, I immediately started listing Z words that could go with Ziegler (my last name).  You know how much primary teachers love alliteration! I considered "The Ziegler Zone", "Zaney Ziegler's Blog", or "The Ziggy Zone".  Then I moved on to working with words that go with Kindergarten because that's what I get to teach this year! However, I doubt I'll be in Kindergarten  forever (as you get to know more about me this comment will make more sense to you), so do I really want to start a blog and then just have to change it's name next year, or the year after that, or the year after that?  So finally I decided to make it simple.  Teaching with Mrs. Ziegler just sounded too generic and Teaching with Mrs. Z just doesn't roll off the tongue that easily, so Teaching with Z will have to do.  Besides, after spending incredibly too much time obessing over the name of my blog I decided I was bored with that part of this process.  I am ready to get on to the fun stuff, sharing things with you!

I will be super busy this coming week because I am moving from one school that is six minutes from my front door to another school that is just four minutes from my front door!  In this economy, we can all celebrate saving mileage...no matter how small it may be, right?   Unfortunately, I can not get in my new room to start setting up until mid-August (insert gasp here). So I have to store all my classroom things, an entire decade worth of stuff, in the gym until my room is ready (insert incredibly dramatic and stressful sigh here).  But more importantly, I am going to the beach next week!  Yay!  Upon my return I can promise lots of new things for the blog.  Since I can't actually work in my room this summer, that means I will be spending endless hours searching the internet for loads of great things for teaching and then I can post the most awesome things right here on my blog for all of you.  Did I mention that this will be my first time teaching Kindergarten in ten years? EEK!  I sure do have a lot of prep work ahead of me...I can't wait!