One thing I was most excited about when it came to quitting teaching was the opportunity it would give me to start running more, especially more in the mornings. If you would have told me that fact six years ago, though, I would have laughed in your face and called you a liar-liar-pants-on-fire. You see, …
We seem to have an uncanny ability for planning our day adventures for times when it’s going to rain since our last three excursions have involved some amount of umbrella usage or refuge-seeking from the storm. Luckily, the rain brings down the sweltering temps we’ve been having lately and amps up the coolness factor in …
In one of the books I just finished reading, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn (affiliate link), she cites a pretty staggering statistic — American consumers throw away approximately 25-30% of the food we buy, which accounts for hundreds and hundreds of wasted dollars per year, not to mention a strain on our …
Let’s just not even pretend anymore that I’m trying even the slightest to get these posts down to 10 photos because…I’m not. (And you know that if I ever do, I’ll be bragging for weeks about it, so maybe it’s better this way.) But if you’re here, it’s to see adorable photos of my adorable …
When I stop to think about it, it is staggering how much my life has changed over the past week– It’s like I’m a completely different person. (No, but really…) And, since I missed the boat yesterday in doing a throwback Tuesday Tell-All post, I figured I’d update you all a bit on what’s going …
Turning 16 was a Big Deal where I came from–it was the age where you were able to get a driver’s license and, in my case, the age where I was allowed to start dating. Basically, I counted it as one of the first milestones in that long and elusive journey known as “becoming an …
It was a slightly eerie thing today, seeing my classroom with naked bulletin boards and bare walls and no signs that I had ever been there. It was an even weirder thing to load up my trunk with the few boxes of my possessions I’d brought with me to my second home for the past …
It’s about to hit, friends– The Last Week of School. In addition to having a chaotic school schedule this week (like dances and performances and awards shows and such), I have the most insane grading load, despite having spent almost ten hours over the weekend sifting through it. (Spoiler: I barely made a dent, it …
