Today has definitely been one of those days: the kind of day when I ask myself, over and over again, “Am I making any kind of difference in my students’ lives? Or am I just here to make sure they stay busy and don’t hurt each other?” I often wonder if other teachers think of …
Okay, let’s be real for a moment: I’m having a really hard time keeping up with this whole “50 Weeks to Organized” project. No, this is not an “I’m going to give up” post–this is an “I’m finding this whole process a lot harder than I thought it would be and a lot of the …
*I was just mentioning to my mother-in-law the other day how we’d better take some new family pictures soon because everyone’s little family (except ours) has changed since we last took some two years ago (every single one of my sisters-in-law has had a baby in the past year–crazy sauce!), and this is what happens: *We …
When I was a teenager, I felt like I hardly ever spent weekends with my family–my independent teenage self craved time with my close girl friends, in which we’d plot ways to sneakily happen to “bump into” our latest crushes. Since getting married though, it seems like my bond with my family has multipled a hundredfold, …
Remember how two years ago, I set a goal to read 50 books in a year and only got to 19? Or last year, when I wanted to read double of what I did the year before (which meant 38 books), and I only read 23? Well color me ridiculous because this year I only …
Sorry I’m posting this a day late–like I mentioned Tuesday, we currently don’t have the Internet at our apartment, and since I’m on spring break and all, I’m having to get creative with where I do my blogging. Seeing as how I actually wanted a bit of time to relax on my spring break, I’m …
*Here she is, friends: my very own vegetable garden (for this year). Isn’t she beautiful? It may not seem like much yet, but I’m already seeing visions of overloaded tomato plants and chili peppers so heavy that their stems bow down in reverence. I take homegrown produce very seriously, people. This is an epic year …
Like I’ve mentioned before, Matt and I are still trying to refine our holiday traditions–we figure that the time to experiment with it all is now (before we start a family), so almost every holiday finds us trying out new things to see which traditions we like most. Last year, I made a fancy pot roast …
