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Polar Vortex of Funk- Winter Marches On

Hopefully by now everyone is thawed out from last week’s Polar Vortex.  You would think living in the South, the cold air that we got wouldn’t be all that bad, but even though we didn’t see any snow, the temperatures were pretty View Post

2014

  Happy New Year!   I wish I could tell you I rang in the new year with some exciting, amazing party, but this is how it went down at our house: Subway sandwiches and watching cheesy New Years Eve countdowns on TV.  Speaking View Post

Waiting & Waiting & Waiting

E.B. has a cough and his voice became really hoarse on Christmas Day.  I started feeling yucky Friday after a trip to the store.  I’ve lived in Mississippi long enough to know that my self-diagnosis of The Delta Crud was happening, so View Post

The Day After Christmas

Another Christmas holiday is in the books.  We had a wonderful Christmas with our family and Santa was very, very good to E.B.  So good, in fact, that  it’s almost impossible to tear him away from all of his gifts.  Especially his View Post

How To Work Off A Pancake Breakfast

A couple of weekends ago, E.B. surprised us by suddenly wanting to enter the Kids Fun Run at our local OctoberFest.  He’s always been a pretty good runner, and I have begged him in the past to enter these fun runs, but he always turned me down.  All View Post

Country Comes To Town

I love my new job so much, and I stay so super busy that I apologize for not updating with personal posts as much as I used to.  I plan to do better on that soon.  I find myself making tons of ideas for posts in my head throughout the day and then View Post

candy themed bulletin board

Candy Themed Bulletin Board

  I am so not creative when it comes to bulletin boards.  I’m not kidding when I tell you that everyone at my new school has mastered the art of 3D bulletin boards that look like they have stepped right off of the Pinterest website.  I View Post

Dollar General/P&G September Everyday Heroes Prize Pack Giveaway

As an educator, I see the difference my colleagues and I are making in the lives of the children we serve each day.  As a parent, I deeply appreciate the care and service that teachers give to my son on a daily basis.  Each day when I send him off to View Post

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