Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Teacher Tuesdays: The Back-to-School Edition!

By now, I am in the full swing of the new school year...and already counting down the days til Summer Vacation!  HA!

This school year has been super busy but I welcome it.  I have taken on an additional role this year as a sixth grade homeroom and religion teacher.  After being "out of the homeroom game" for a few years, I forgot how much it entailed!  THE DREADED ATTENDANCE REGISTER...and phone calls home to parents!  UGH!!!!    But I have to say I am absolutely loving teaching the religion class!  It's mostly Old Testement and all the stories I remembered as a kid.

I am still doing After Care, which every single day I think to myself, I need to retire from!  I am over it!  But the thing is...I like the extra money!  Who wouldn't! And in all honesty, there's no one else to do it.  (Everyone know how stinky it is!)

I am getting into a routine now and getting my life and schedule together, so I hope to be blogging more on the regular!  Because I do miss it!!

Since teaching is such a big part of who I am, from time to time I like to blog about it, in what I like to call "Teacher Tuesdays"  So today I thought I'd share some snippets of what's been happening around my classroom.





  • Part of the reason I didn't mind taking on this particular homeroom for this year was due to the fact that it's only 15 kids!  Sadly, many students leave our little catholic school to attend public middle school in sixth grade!  So while it was a large class the last few years, this year the kids have dwindled.  I thought the students would be upset by it, but they're not!  In fact, one girl said, "I think this small class thing is gonna work out great!"  I couldn't agree more!!
  • I might be loving it, but I've discovered I'm terrible at being in three places at one!!  I miss the comforts of just my library and lab!!
  • One of my most favorite times of the year is Book Fair Time!  It's always so much fun to shop for books!  The kids tend to gravitate toward the chachke stuff after buying books.  This year they loved the pointers!  There was one with a pointy skeleton hand attached.  During the fair, one of the students pointed it in my face and before I could give her a "strong talking to" about not pointing it in people's faces she said, "You...are...AWESOME!!"  I just had to laugh.
  • Speaking of strong "talking tos" I probably should give some of my 8th graders one when they tell me I should name my website "A Librarian and a Tech Teacher walk into a bar..."  but instead I just shook my head and moved on!
  • I don't come to school looking my best apparently, because one little first grader told me the other day that I "look disaucted" (he meant to say exhausted!) LOL  He was absolutely right!!  
  • I'm realizing that it is these kids that drive me to drink...HA!
  • Teaching Middle School now, sadly I can quickly turn into a middle schooler myself!  Ugh...I'm working on that!
  • I'm not 100% sure what roasting is, but the After Care/Homework Club kids think I'm pretty good at it!
  • I should probably stop telling the Homework Club kids, I'm going to retire because the other day I girl got visibly upset.  She told me I couldn't do that because she loved me too much and didn't want me to leave! (And that's where my heart burst...but also broke in two!!) *Side note: I can't retire for about a billion years!!
  • I love what I do, but also love my days off and time away too!  And then when the kids tell me they've missed me after a day, I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be, and I'll never do anything else with my life!!

Thanks for letting me share my teaching side today!!  Head on over toTBB today to find something yummy for dinner...It's the Tasty Tuesday link up...YUMMMMM!!

Monday, November 6, 2017

TBB Asks: Thankful Thoughts!

Happy Monday Ya'll!  Writing today still on a high from my weekend with a few TBB Ladies in Vegas.  Lots of fun and memories made!  More on that later on in the week but today being the first Monday of the month, it's also TBB Asks day.  This November, with Thanksgiving right around the corner for us Americans, and not too long ago for our Canadian friends, we're focusing on gratitude.  Today we are thanking and thinking about people and things we are thankful for!  Join us and answer theswe questions on your own blog, Facebook page or on Insta!!


Here are my thankful thoughts:

1.  A New Friend: Love all my Blended Blog Ladies!  And I was really excited to meet Abbie in person this weekend!!


2.  Something Shiny: My new shirt for Britney this weekend!  Because Britney calls for sparkles!

3.  Someone Unexpected: Not really sure about this one!

4.  Something Ordinary: My day to day life...and I'm totally okay with it!

5.  A person I've Know a Really Long Time: My bestie!  It's been unusually long seen we've seen each other, but she's never far from thought!!


6.  Somewhere you go everyday: Well not technically everyday!  But I spend more of my life at my school than I do anywhere else these days!

7.  Someone who's taught you something.  My parents are teaching me how to rock the retirement life!  I kinda can't wait for that...in about a billion years!  HA!  I'm thankful for all the things they've taught me and done for me over the years!


8.  A Faraway Place: I'm really grateful I got to spend this weekend away in Las Vegas for an awesome Girls Weekend!

9.  Something Saving My Life Right Now: COFFEE!!  After a red eye flight last night, with a 4 hour class ahead of me tonight, coffee is life!!

10.  Someone you see everyday: Well, living alone, there's no one person I see everyday!  Part sad...or kinda fabulous?!?  Haha

11.  Something I enjoy doing: Most days I'm thankful to just be able to read a few pages of my book!

12./14. Special Male and Female: My Neighbor Friends!  They are just my fave.  I get together with my friend Lauren every Tuesday for This is Us (and wine!) and her husband Pete is just the nicest guy!  He fixes my screen when I had to break in, trims my trees...they are just two of the sweetest people I know.  I'm so glad we're friends!!

13.  A Special Place: I just love my little home!

15.  Something Warm: I thank God for everyday he brings me warm sunshine!!  And I'm totally serious!!



These TBB Asks Posts are always such a blast to put together!  Join us every Monday this month as we continue with the gratitude theme!!



Hope your week has gotten off to a fabulous start!!