Another year, another Black Friday. My family has been doing this for many years, long before it became such a national news maker. In fact, we now celebrate our family Thanksgiving on the Saturday after the actual day. My sister and I spend Thanksgiving with our inlaws and travel late Thursday to our parents’ house …
Real Life
To all my family, friends, readers, and recipe searchers: Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to use this little corner of the bloggosphere to ramble about my passions, struggles, fears, and accomplishments with running, CrossFit, cooking, photography, teaching, and LIFE! It has been an amazing 5 years and I hope to be here 5 …
Tonight, we returned to All Fired Up to continue one of our big traditions of making/painting ornaments. I’m sure I’ve told this, but I’ll tell a quick version. Our first Christmas came 4 months after our wedding and during that time, we had 9/11, loss of a job, loss of a car, and new job …
Mind is blown. Did everybody in the world know this except me??? As for other news, it’s cold. I’m not acclimated to it yet. Therefore I’m freezing. Oh and today is “Hat day” at school. I’m wearing my Warrior Dash hat. It looks a little like this. I’m living large this week. 2 day …
1. I have an obsession with Christmas coffee cups. I’m not sure when it began, but it has grown into a yearly search for the coolest mug of the season. It takes a little while to unpack all these and remember when I got them. That’s half the fun of holiday decorating. 2. Let’s …
Three Random Things going on this week: 1. The house is decorated for Christmas. I’m sorry to all those post-Thanksgiving purists. I talked a little bit last year about why I do it so early. And I have all bases covered. Hot soup in front of the tree in a seasonal mug? 2. First showing …
This is worth a view. For ANYBODY who runs, walks, or moves around outside, watch this. Many things come across my facebook or twitter feed and I watch it and my reaction is usually along the lines that was intended by the source. But this is too important.
No, I haven’t been hiding under a rock or off looking for the Way Back Machine to bring my iPhone back to its former glory. I’ve been working. Or maybe I should say, trying to work. The school year is off to a very rough start and I’m just now finding my way to the …
This is a short and sweet Favorites. I can’t list all the things I love about fall in just one post. I picked my first 3 that I can enjoy even when summer is still hanging around. 1. Sunsets It doesn’t get “fall” weather until late Oct/November. I have to get my kicks in when …
I have survived the first 2 weeks of teaching a new curriculum, new kids, new standards, new expectations, and writing a bunch of dumb stuff on a whiteboard for the kids who can’t read or speak English yet. It’s been a ROUGH two weeks. This has been just as hard or harder than last year …
There is something about the summer in the South that brings out the best in country music. I grew up with Miss 103 on the radio and some of my best memories of high school include the breakout of Garth, Alan Jackson, Shania, and the always awesome Tim McGraw. My preferences in music expanded …
1. The heat has obviously scrambled my brain. I went to WalMart…in the middle of the day. If I must go to wally world, I do it before school when nobody is there or early on the weekend. Today, I ventured out and I barely survived. That place during the day is dangerous. While dodging …
As often happens, when I get back from vacation and have some downtime before school starts back, I go into hibernation mode. I don’t look at school work. I don’t think about school. I completely IGNORE school. Teaching is my passion and I’m fortunate to absolutely love my job, but it really wears me down …
Remembering not just those who served, but the families who proudly held the homes together while their soldiers were away. Thank you for your service for our freedoms.
I only carry it around when my nose is in constant turmoil. It’s a good thing the good stuff was on sale. It REALLY is like little quilts. I never paid much attention to it until I took a picture… So, how did this day go? 6:00 Alarm goes off. And I mutter some form …
and 1 more Monday left until SCHOOL IS OUT! What a day. Last week we had the ever fun, suffer in silence while the 3rd grade next door took their state standardized tests. There is nothing fun about 24 kindergarten kids having to be absolutely silent for 3 hours at time. But, we all hung …
To all the Police, Fire, SWAT, FBI, and Emergency personnel of all areas…. From, Everybody #BostonStrong
What happened last Monday in Boston was not a tragedy. It was not a disaster. It wasn’t an “unfortunate event”. It was a brutal malicious attack made by terrorists for the purpose of causing as much harm, damage, and loss of life. Why target marathon runners and spectators, there will never be an acceptable answer …
At the time of this writing, I am glued to the TV after drifting to sleep at 11:30pm and waking up a dozen times before giving up around 3am. I’ve been watching the news unfold ever since. I feel like I have been stuck all week, waiting for answers, waiting to feel better, maybe waiting …
I honestly cannot believe it’s here. Oh, and I’m not done. I want a few more days. These are my thoughts about the past 30 days with the Whole 30 program from Whole 9 Life. I started this because in November, Fitfluential offered the Ambassadors a copy ofIt Starts with Food to review. I read …