I always thought that our spending habits when it came to groceries were pretty normal (maybe because for the first six years of our marriage, we lived in a poor college town full of poor college students), but based on some of the comments coming in lately asking how we manage to spend …
You guys—I’m on spring break. I have actually been on spring break since Tuesday at exactly 3:06 PM. Sadly, you wouldn’t know it by looking at my daily activities though, which have been noteworthy only in the fact that I’ve gotten a little bit of extra sleep. Recently, I have come to accept the …
Life’s been pretty busy lately, but now that I’m going into the home stretch of the school year, I have had a *little* more time to read, and my latest crop of books has not disappointed. Just a reminder as to the significance of the ratings: 5 stars = life-changing (and I try not to …
After my humiliating goal attempts in February, I was determined to make last month count. And I don’t know if it was the determination that came from having achieved so very little the month before or if it was the coming out of the sun and springtime weather, but I kicked BUTT in March on …
Confession: Sometimes I miss being in school. Isn’t that weird? I mean, I’m literally “in” school 50-60 hours a week, but being the teacher doesn’t exactly hold the same “in school” feeling as being a student does. There are some things I don’t miss about being a student of course–I don’t miss staying up …
Part of my motive in blogging about financial matters is to get more people talking about money—it seems like money is usually the giant giraffe in the middle of the party that no one’s talking about. I’m sure most of us have heard at some point in our lives that it’s rude to bring up …
I’ve been giving my students the Myers-Briggs personality test to kill some time during homeroom this week (where I have 8 minutes with those kids every day pretty much to do whatever the heck I want). They’ve been really eager to find out their personality type, and I was pretty curious myself to take the …
1. All week this week, we Language Arts teachers have been administering the SAGE end-of-level writing test to our students. Standardized testing is the worst, and the most awful thing about the new tests we have to give out this year is that my Language Arts classes have TWO FULL WEEKS of testing (just …
