Serendipity

That is one of my favorite words and the best way to describe my day.

First off, I need to send out a thank you to my hubby for helping me out in my classroom this morning.  We got a lot done!

Now for the exciting stuff!

Jason and I went with my realtor, Stephanie Yost to look at houses today.  We made some progress and found a few new options that we are really interested in.

Here are our Top 5:

1.  The Santee - We would be building this one.

2.  Katama Way

3.  Aquinnah Dr.

4.  Tiger’s Paw Dr. at the Hunt Club

5.  The Greenville - We would have to build this one too.

Any thoughts?!

My realtor, Stephanie, and her family are dear friends of mine and have become the most unexpected generous benefactors.  As most of you know, J and I have been dealing with 1 car now for a little over 3 years.  Since I have switched schools, this is going to be a problem.  She and told us today that she and her hubby have talked things over and they are going to give us her hubby’s old car that they are no longer using since he has a new one.  I can not think of a more generous thing for them to have done.  They have truly been a blessing and an answer to our prayers.  So, Steph, if you are reading this, thank you thank you thank you!

Oh!!  A huge congrats to Heather and Nick on becoming engaged!!!!!! It’s about time!!  Love you!

Namaste!

It is starting to come together…

my classroom, that is!

Click HERE if you need a reminder of what it looked like when I moved in.

It is still needs a bit of work, but it has come along way.  I will take more pictures when it is completed the week of the 25th.  (I have new teacher orientation next week - I know I am not a new teacher, but I am new to public school so I must go.)

This is my awesome new whiteboard!  The guys at Home Depot cut me a really good deal for it!  A big thanks to my dad for helping me pick it up and attach it!

To the right side of the board is my math corner MESS!  I turned one part of the chalkboard into a bulletin board - I need to go find some cute boarder for it.

To the left side of the board is my writing center MESS!

Yes, I plan on cleanning up all of these messes….they are driving me crazy!  The room has been eating my supplies!

Here is a close-up of the curtains I made…no more tacky red bandana!  I covered my door with the same material the curtains are made of.

This is my new desk that I painted to match everything else. =p

This is one half of my reading garden.  I am making Jason hang butterflies from the ceiling tomorrow morning.  =)

the other half of my reading garden

This is the cube storage that I put together.  I still have to do another one.

And here is the big mess….

Does anyone know a good cleaning fairy?

Happy

My classroom website reached over 10,000 hits today!  Yay!

Also…my classroom is really coming together!  Hopefully I can post photos tomorrow! =)

I went to my old school’s open house tonight and saw all of the families that I am going to miss!  Apparently they have all been telling my replacement that she has some BIG shoes to fill.  (Funny to think about as I have teeny tiny feet - size 5 1/2  to 6 to be exact.) Anyway…great to see the faces of people I adore!

And….I saw a trailer for the new movie “The Tale of Despereaux.”  I am so excited!!  It was such a good book and the movie looks so CUTE!!

Just a random bit of happiness in my day.

It is about time!

So, I finally got the pics from Heather.  We were trying to take cute pictures with our new haircuts.  Let me just say…they are pretty silly.  Words don’t really do them justice.  See for yourself.

This is one of the first ones, but we thought we would try for more.  I am mainly inserting pics of me, because I don’t know how Heather would feel about me including some of her.

This one wasn’t much better.

Then Heather insisted I do a Katy Perry inspired pose. Which resulted in…

Me singing and laughing my head off!

As if all that weren’t silly enough… we decided we needed to take pictures of our hair in pigtails!

And we couldn’t resist…

Anyway…hope you enjoyed!

In other news…I spent the day in my classroom again.  However, before I made it to the classroom I had to make a stop by Home Depot.  I bought 2 pcp pipes that were 10 ft each.  (They were used as curtain rods in my classroom because they blend in with the wall.  Pictures to come soon.  Anywho…it was pouring down rain and I had to shove those bad boys into my car (they had to hang out the window) and I had to hold them for the drive back to my classroom.  (Thank goodness it was only a 5 minute drive!)  I was hoping to be able to take tomorrow and Friday off, but no such luck.  So much to do and so few people to do it for me. Now I am off to cut out some cutesy pie flowers I laminated.

Waiting on H.

I have been waiting on Ms. FLYoung Studio to send me some pics from the other night before I posted again.  I still haven’t gotten my pictures, but felt the need to post a current blog. To catch you up to speed, I have been super busy.

Thursday I had lunch with my teacher friends from Cabrini and also had to take my car to get a fuel system cleaning.

Friday I got to hang out with hang out with Heather and Nick for the first time in a month!

Saturday I went shopping with my mom to help her use her Sonny Money.  I already spent mine. =p

Sunday Jason and I went to look at houses with our realtor.  We are still set on the same houses number 2 and number 3 from my previous blog entry.  I was scared that number 3 sold because I can’t pull up the info, but that is only because they changed realtors.  We will be going to look at some more this Saturday.

On Monday before I went to work in my new classroom, I had to take my car back in because it was running worse than last week.  It works better now, but I am waiting on some parts to be delivered so that more repairs can be done.  Grr!

Monday and today I have been working my butt off in my classroom.  If you saw the before pictures, you know I have my work cut out for me.  I am hoping to finish up tomorrow so that I can take Thursday and Friday off.  I will update with the “after” pictures as soon as possible.

Classroom Update

Today has been a good day!  I found out that I will be graduating from grad school with a 4.0 G.P.A.!  I am so proud of myself…I couldn’t help bragging!

I spent my day today working some magic in my new classroom.  I primed my desk and got the first layer of chalkboard paint on it.  I created my reading garden area and dress-up/centers area.  I also cleaned out and started organizing one of my storage cabinets.  I need some more storage bins and organizers to make the most of the space though.  I can’t wait to get it finished and post the “after” pictures.

Hope you are all having a lovely day!

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House Hunting!!

The past few weeks have been ridiculously busy!  First I had Shannon visiting.  On top of that, I had to finish up with grad classes.  For some reason it seemed like summer semester would never end!  There was just so much work to do.  On our trip to meet Jason’s mom and take Shannon home, we stopped to visit my grandparents.  One of my aunts and uncles and some of my cousins came over to see us for supper.  I had so much fun spending time with family and playing with baby Callista.  She is such a ham and makes the funniest faces!  Everyone says she is just like me when I was a baby - she even looks like I did.

This is my cousin Ashley - Callie’s mom.  Callie is making her EVIL face!  She just the cutest little chunky monkey!  When she came over she was wearing a little onesie that said “I make chunky thighs look good!”  Love it!

I have also decided to buy a few patterns - WHAT?!!  Me, buy patterns?!  Crazy, I know.  I just wanted to make so bad I could taste them!

The other pattern I bought from Heather Bailey was for Callista’s Christmas present.  Ashley, do not click here, if you want to be surprised.

We have also been house hunting!!  This will be our first home and I am so excited about this!!  I went with my mom and Stephanie Yost, my realtor on Friday to look at houses.  We saw twelve.  Of the 12, these 3 are my favorites.  What do you think?  Which do you like best?

These are not posted in any particular order.  (click on the links “House 1″, etc to see more pictures and all the details.)

House 1

House 2

House 3

In my absence from blogging I have also been working on a quilt and made a few crafts.  I still need to take some pictures and post those.  I am about to leave to go to Charlotte, N.C. so that post will have to wait.  I will be coming home on Wednesday, until then…happy blogging!

Just a taste…

of some of the fun Shannon and I are having this week.  Enjoy!

Congrats to Heather…

on celebrating her 1 year blog-a-versary!  Click here to check out her site and enter to win one of her fabulous paintings! 

Just a heads up…I may not be blogging it up to much this week as I have my dear sister-in-law staying with me.  =)  We are about to head to the beach for a few hours. The skin cancer clinic is gonna have my head.  (I am going back on Tuesday so they can take out some more of 2 moles that they apparently didn’t get enough of the first time.)

In other news…Shannon, my sis-in-law, and I went to PetSmart last night and…I got a new Mimi and Lola!!!  They FINALLY got in some bright green fire-bellied toads.  I just couldn’t pass them up.  I went in for crickets and came out with 2 new toads!  Now Frog and Toad have some beautiful new friends to play with! 

Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday!  =)