I’m bummed that Matt will be gone on a campout for most of this weekend.I’m happy that I’ll get some extra reading time in (although not with my cute niece, who’s reading with me in the above picture). I’m frustrated that several of my students still haven’t finished their research papers, even though they’ve had …
Are You Too Attached to Your Virtual Reality?
While grading through some packets my students did while reading A Christmas Carol, I have been especially interested to read their responses to this question: “In Stave 2, Scrooge is given the opportunity to see all the events from his past that have affected his current feelings about the future. In thinking over your own …
50 Weeks to Organized: Week 8
I was just remarking to Matt that I don’t seem to realize how much I need organization in my life until I see the Before/After pictures side by side. Take this last challenge, for example–in my head, I was thinking that our kitchen drawers really weren’t too bad. (Well, I knew our main utensil drawer …
Tuesday Tell-All
*Thanks to my mother-in-law, we have found our latest meatless obsession: two corn tortillas (doubled up) smothered in cheddar cheese, avocados, and hot sauce. As she said, “When you have food like this, who needs meat?” *So last night, I did something quite un-Torrie-like: I randomly decided to take off 3 days during Matt’s spring …
Birthdays, Surprises, & Bowling
Since we hadn’t been home to see our families since Christmas, we decided this weekend that we’d probably better suck it up and pay the extra gas costs and get ourselves to Bountiful already. We couldn’t have picked a better weekend to go. Besides being a 3-day weekend (which just automatically makes for a more convenient weekend to …
V-Day: The Aftermath
Something that will never cease to amaze me about marriage is that you think you know your spouse pretty well, and then they’ll do something totally unpredictable that just makes you fall in love with them all over again. Partly just because it shocks the heck out of you. And I kind of like that. …
Happy Valentine’s Day – From Here to Forever
While I have to put up with the antics and awkwardness that is Valentine’s Day at a middle school, one thing at least will keep me sane today: The fact that I have my own Real-Life Valentine now . . . and forever. The fact that I don’t have to be wondering as I go through …
50 Weeks to Organized: Week 7
Well, I knew it would happen eventually–a week when I really didn’t want to buckle down and get organized. When I didn’t want to face my “stuff” for two more seconds. When I just wanted to sit down when I had a spare minute (a rare oddity) and watch a movie and eat red love …