There are few drawbacks to living in the district in which I teach. Many more positives. I love being 2 min from school and able to come home for lunch. I love having Olivia accompany me to school in the mornings and eating breakfast while I get ready for the day. I love knowing who Olivia's teacher is. I love the area I bought in.

BUT, I DO NOT like living on a street with kids from the Jr High I taught at the past 3 years who think it's funny/ok to target my home. Last summer, our first here, we were ding dong ditched at 3 am, when my parents were in town, and my dad happened to be sleeping in the living room. This spring, and into summer, we were ding dong ditched again, then TPed/forked, and now yesterday the house was egged! It seems to be getting progressively worse and I DO NOT like it. At first it wasn't a big deal, I was a kid once too. BUT, they do know I have little ones. The TPing was actually pretty funny because they used only one roll and did a pretty pathetic job I must say. :) The egging is taking it too far for me. They still did a pretty poor job, you can tell they're kids, and I'm sure they were scared of being caught. There were 3 or so broken on the roof and 3 or so right in the middle of our front picture window. Good thing it wasn't rocks I guess. I am still surprised I didn't hear a thing though. I'm thinking about having a security type light installed, soon. One that will turn on if someone enters the yard. That will probably help. The worst thing is that of the 3-4 houses with Jr. High kids, I only taught one home of kids and I don't think they are doing it. I could be wrong though. Hopefully with the move to the lower grades it will subside soon. We'll see...