Well, we got a good start on my to-enjoy list for fall—right after I hit “publish” on my last post, I looked up the info on the closest you-pick apple orchard and found that it opened that very same day! Since mine and Matt’s Saturday didn’t have anything else set in stone, we packed …
I seem to always forget how much school consumes my life, especially at the beginning of the year. When you go from having free rein of your time to working 50-60 hours a week, it all of a sudden seems like I have no time for fun anymore (especially since our weekends lately have been …
images via Hallmark 1. You have started to refer to the (loud!) university students who recently moved into the complex next to yours as “those dang college kids.” The ironic thing? Your husband says the same thing, even though he is actually still in college as well (albeit in his last semester). 2. You get …
My teacher friend tagged me with this cartoon after the first week of school, and I just couldn’t have put it better. Seriously, you’ve never experienced tiredness until you’ve enjoyed an entire summer’s worth of delicious sunny free time and then had to whip your butt into shape to teach full-time again. The only other …
Truth be told, Matt and I aren’t exactly the most adventurous of people–our day-to-day lives rarely hold too much variation, and more nights than not, we’re usually more content to just sit at home and watch another movie rather than go out and experience the world. But apparently last week, the end-of-summer slump had weighed …
My feet may be killing me and my voice may be a little worse for wear, but I have officially survived my third 1st day of school as a teacher. (And I only had to tell off one and a half kids in the process, which is a vast improvement over last year, when I …
It’s happening, folks–summer is coming to its official end, a point that is proved by the fact that I’ve been at the school all week fulfilling contract hours and getting my room ready and trying not to freak out about my next batch of victims, who will officially be starting school next Tuesday. On …
Eating Lately: Since my clean eating challenge ended, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do going forward. I felt so good while on the strict diet that I knew I needed to try and sustain as many of those changes as possible, but the no-processed-foods-of-any-kind has probably been the hardest rule to …
