As with any big life decision, it would seem that timing is everything. Matt and I have been considering a certain little addition to our home for a couple years now, but we had a lot of variables we seemed to be up against (most of which can be summed up by two words: finances …
50 Weeks to Organized: Week 24
After my month of not worrying about anything organizational, it was a bit tough to come back to the game, especially when my spare bedroom looked like this: It is in moments like this that I know I should be mortified to post some of these “before” shots, but one of my number-one blogging rules …
Tuesday Tell-All
*Maybe it was the teaching dress code that did it, but I think I’ve become one of THOSE people who wear skirts and dresses on normal days just because they’re refreshingly lighter and–let’s face it–cuter than most capri-and-tee combos I could come up with. It basically means that I look dressed up almost all the time, but I …
The Scarf I Wanna Wrap Up & Die In
Because it’s too hot in our apartment for me to have the motivation to go through all our pictures from our St. George trip, I’m going to show off the most deliciously sexy silk scarf ever. I’ve only recently gotten on the scarf bandwagon, but it seems like I won’t be getting off it anytime …
I Know What I Want
There’s a balcony overlooking a spread of red hills and sagebrush where we’re staying in St. George, and I often find my whispering feet tip-toeing out there to drink in the tranquility and heat. I’ve been to this condo here in Southern Utah many times now, but each time is a new revelation: about myself, …
May Reading
You could call May the month of young adult literature (mostly just because I was assigning my students a bunch of books I’d never read before, which just eats away at my soul until I check them all out myself). This month is set to include literature much more geared to adults, but I will …
Tips for Surviving your First Year of Teaching {Part Two}
Here’s a continuation of the list I started last week of 39 tips to help you get through your first year of teaching (one for each week of the school year): 14. One of the best ways to praise your students is to contact their parents, either through an email, letter, or phone call. Of …
Like Sardines to St. George
This is how we looked on the first leg of our road trip down to St. George. If you look carefully at this visual evidence, I think you’ll understand why we had to have someone else let us out of the vehicle when we arrived at our destination. But now that we’ve finally arrived …