Valentine's Day

My picture for yesterday, February 14th, is of the rose I received from Glorias. My husband is not much of a romantic, but he did take me to dinner. At Glorias they gave all of the girls roses for V-day. They were not nearly as crowded as I thought they would be, though they did have to halt seating for a while due to the chip maker catching on fire! Anywho....I'm not really a fan of Valentine's because I think you should show people you love them everyday and not just on one particular day. I show my kids and my family how much I love them on a daily basis!

I am full of Glee

So as anyone that knows anything about me knows that I am obsessed with the tv show Glee. Well today at White's Chapel UMC the sermon was about Glee. It wasn't about the show persay, but more about the message of Glee. In the dictionary, Glee means absolute happiness! I think that is why I love that word so much. The minister spoke about what it means to be content in your own life. This message hit really close to home for me. People I know all around me are having babies, buying houses, and buying cars. And what do I get, none of those currently. Everytime I hear of someone I know that is getting something know I get a little bit jealous and wish it were me. But the sermon today helped to remind me of the beautiful and wonderful things I do have in my life that I shouldn't be taking for granted. I have a wonderful family who loves me, a couple of best friends that I wouldn't trade for the world, 2 amazing dogs who I love with all my heart, 20 wonderful children who make my days so much brighter, and a team full of kinder teachers that are there for me every day. No I may not be as thin as I want to be or have as much money as I want to have. But I am a pretty determined person, and I find a way to do all of things I really want to do and I enjoy them to the fullest.

The most important part of that sermon was being happy with you have, and I am very happy with what I have. I may need to learn a little patience because my time will come to get all of those things, but for now I just need to enjoy the wonderful things I do have!

So after the sermon, I went to the Chocolate Festival at Central Market with Rene, my mom, and sister! AMAZING......I love chocolate and this truly is one of the greatest things Central Market puts on. Then I got in an hour long workout. Next I enjoyed a pedicure with my mom! Then I ended my night making Valentine's cookies for my sweet husband. My little family is so perfect and I can't wait to watch it grow eventually. But for now I am pretty content with my two baby girls who love to snuggle with me every night :)

Be MiNe...

So today I spent my morning up at the Little Blue House with my friend Hannah! I made another set of tags for my blocks, and I learned this amazing new trick for glitter. I can't wait to use it on my next project. Hannah made a really cute, vintage looking book that would be great for Valentine's day or a wedding book! Today was the perfect amount of time for my project. The classes are usually four hours, but I was able to finish mine in an hour and half, which is more my time frame. I love doing the projects, but I have a really hard time sitting down in one spot to finish them. So all of my pictures for today are of my Be Mine blocks, and Hannah's adorable book!

Valentine's Parties

So today, at my school, we had our Valentine's Parties! My class had so much fun passing out their cards to each other. They were all so excited to look in my bag to see what I got as well! At our party, we decorated cookies and ate some yummy snack food, as they called it. I love watching my kids make things because they all look completely different. Some use pink icing, others use white. Some only want red sprinkles, while some want all colors on at the same time. It was so funny because it would get really quiet while they were concentrating on their decorations, and then get loud when it was time to share! So my picture for today is of a couple of my students' cookies they decorated. As you can tell they are all 100% different, which is why I love them so much!

My confessions....

So I finished reading book 3/25 for this year!! And that is from the Confessions of Shopaholic series "Mini Shopaholic." I actually had a really tough time getting into this book even though I loved the previous ones. Well I was finally able to finish it and I realized something about myself: I am quite addicted to shopping as well. Becky, the character in this book, learns from an expert that she has an addiction to shopping and it is causing disturbing behavior in her daughter. Becky comes up with these elaborate plans to pay for things so that her husband won't know about it.....yeah well I tend to do this as well. I'm going to pray that Rene doesn't see this, but I always have a way of letting purchases slip below his radar. So as I'm reading this I start laughing at loud, because this is so going to be me. Becky enjoys life and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. I am kind of the same way, I love my life so much and I want to do and see everything and if that means I have to get a cheap old house, and a used car when that time comes, I will take it with a smile. I would rather travel around the world and have lots of kids and be absolutely happy than spend my money on expensive houses and cars. So now that I have finished this book, I'm quite excited about the next one! Until tomorrow...

Yet another snow day...

Today I was actually quite thankful for the snow day. I have not slept well the past two nights. Last night my mind was just worrying that it was going to ice and I was going to have to drive to school in the ice (sad I know). I woke up at 4 a.m. and checked my phone and it was still 37 degrees and no rain or snow. I woke again at 5:21 when my mom called to tell me school was cancelled. I then checked my phone again and it had dropped to 25 and was sleeting. The winter storm sure did move in quickly. I was not able to go back to sleep after that. I watched all of my recorded shows, did 5 loads of laundry, and went to the mall. I was finally able to take an hour long nap around noon! Then I was able to finish cleaning, finish my TELPAS, and get in a workout! So I would call it quite a successful day! I can't wait to hear the stories my kids tell me in the morning about their snow day adventures. So my picture for today is the snow outside my front yard!

The mind of a five year old

So my picture for Tuesday Feb. 8th is of a character I used to do a planned experience lesson in my classroom. Every year we do a lesson to kind of pin point those students who need to be placed into GT. The lesson I did yesterday involved a character called a "beast." I found it so interesting that this "beast" brought up so much conversation between the 20 five year olds in my class. They were not allowed to talk during the assignment for idea purposes. But when it was over, they broke out into conversation about prehistoric animals. I must admit it was kind of crazy. I have one child in my class who inspires to be a scientist one day, and I have no doubt that he will be one, but he came to me talking about all of these dinosaurs that I have never heard of. He is a pretty smart kid so I do believe every word he said, but it just amazed me at how much he knew about dinosaurs and he is only five years old. Watching them construct their own beasts and attempt to name them was priceless! It's moments like these that remind me of how lucky I am to be doing my job! So my picture for yesterday is of the beasts that sat on my board for 30 minutes that helped me to get a better look into some of my childrens imaginative brains!