Not enough to push me up to another hour this week, bleh. Spring, where you at?
Reading and finishing Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippenott and then handing it over to one of my students who opened it and immediately started reading it in her free period (which she spends hanging out in my room - hah).
Stumbling our way through Read Across America week (happy birthday Dr. Seuss!) and all the themed days at school. We threw together the lamest fairy tale costumes (aka. name tags for Hansel and Gretel for Grey & Gem) and then barely pulled off the rest of the week for them (their 'twin outfits' didn't quite match their friend/twin's clothes, we totally forgot about grade/color day) and the little kids had an easier week with pajama day and mismatch day (aka every day). Violet thought 'crazy sock' day was the most hilarious thing she had ever heard of. She borrowed two socks from her big bro, Grey, and was pleased as punch.
High fiving the Rustman who is making progress in his speech work with Ms. Kristin. He is really chatting up a storm and had me belly laughing the other night when he feigned horror when he realized I put something under his bed in hopes that he'd forget he wanted it when he was out of the room. He looked at me with a face in shock and said, "Momma! Why you put that under my bed?!"
Jumping and smiling and hugging when one of my former students (she's a senior now) stopped by to tell me that she was accepted into her first choice college! I am so proud and grateful to have been her teacher and be just a small part of her journey through life. (congrats Mattison!)
Feeling grateful for cousins Heather, Albert, and Caleb for taking Grey to see the Harlem Globetrotters on Wednesday night. It can be hard to do much of anything sometimes with our litter of children (haha, I say that lovingly) but we are so blessed to have family and friends who take a child or two on special events that we could never do all as a family. thank you Rummels!!
Catching up with my sisters at our monthly SCF (sisters come first) happy hour date. We met at Uch's house and got all caught up from Kayla's trip to Thailand and got to see her pics and videos!
Celebrating our Gemmi Roe birthday girl with a sleepover party at our house. She invited six friends, plus her little sis Violet, and we spent the evening playing 70 rounds of Just Dance on Youtube and watching musicals all night (Hairspray and Mamma Mia!) The girls were all very sweet and Gem had such a great time. We meant for the party to be Just Add Magic themed but with all the dancing it sort of turned into a Dance party theme (lol). We even got to have our cousin Mallory for an extra day to sleepover which made us all happy.
Enjoying a day date with mah man. (thank you Miss Hannah for babysitting!) We went to my students' basketball game which they played and won the D5 Championship! Then we enjoyed dinner at Press when we by chance ran into my sisters and Kev there too! We share the Mongolian Cauliflower appetizer and it was delicious as always. Then we headed over to Mardi Crawl to help Tasha and You in Flood City with registration. It was a great turn out this year with 9 participating bars and over 300 wristbands sold. #proudbigsisbrag
Teaching and having mini conferences with my Spanish 1 students who were working on their Capibara con Botas final projects, Spanish 1 Honors read chapters 3-6 of Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro and had a snowball review on Friday. Spanish 2 students were finishing their BBQP final projects, while Spanish 2 Honors learned more about the Bolivian children 'prisioners' and did a writing and interpersonal speaking presentations. And Spanish 3 Honors finished up La Casa de La Dentista with some writing and interpersonal speaking presentations too.
Making use of our crockpot this week with chicken and gravy over mashed potatoes, and London broil cooked all day (yum!). We also had breakfast for dinner to use up our abundance of chicken eggs and B made spaghetti one night. We had a Just Add Magic themed birthday for Gemma, so we made "If These Walls Could Taco" and "Extract the Magic Mac & Cheese" with "Point of View Popcorn" (aka Bedford Candies popcorn - thank you Soph & Kate!) and sang Happy Birthday over our "Shut 'Em Up Shortcake"
Oh my gosh, I went and saw Five Feet Apart in the theater last night, after reading it in February, and I bawled my eyes out! It was SO good! And because the book was written from the screenplay, it was actually very closely matched and not a disappointment (as movies from books usually are). I highly recommend it!
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