Today I stepped on the trail and it was calm and cool and the sun had not decided to take on the day yet. The sprinklers were not on and I did not have to navigate around them to avoid getting soaked. It was quiet with the exception of Eric Church and his songs filling…
Continue ReadingMonth: September 2020
Mondays
Today was Monday. Mondays can be a good thing or a bad thing. It really does depend on how you look at it. It could be a fresh start or the start of the long dreaded work week. My husband and daughter and I laugh about Mondays. We really try to stick to healthy food…
Continue ReadingAugust Brings New Décor and a New Co-Worker
As teachers, we hate when summer comes to an end but love back to school shopping! Go anywhere and you will find back to school supplies out in June! I always grab boxes of colored pencils and some markers. I stock up my classroom. I always have to get a new teacher planner! Everything is…
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Putting on make-up during quarantine and during this pandemic has become few and far between for me. In the beginning it was the sheer excitement of wearing pj pants all day and even when in Microsoft TEAMs meetings. No one sees you waist down. It doesn’t matter. I can be wearing obnoxious stripped pj pants…
Continue ReadingWhen One Door Closes, Another Opens
I found out that I had been placed for an online teaching position a couple days before “Teacher Work Week” in my building. The chaos of the building was already in an uproar and I am sure my news of leaving for a year, did not help anything settle. My principal did not reach out…
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I was starting to settle into a new routine in the mornings at home. The quarantine had pushed me into a new exercise regime. I had already been exercising at home in our workout room since March when the pandemic started. I had already been working out with the Beachbody Demand videos. I had done…
Continue ReadingMy New Journey
How do you leave your classroom and your students after twenty years? How do you not enjoy “Teacher Work Week” and prepping your classroom and actually having time to go eat out for lunch with your “teacher besties”at work? How do you change your entire routine and transform your craft room into a makeshift classroom?…
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