Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn This week in my classroom, we have been talking about goals and challenges. I may have been speaking with a group of first graders but sometimes my “motivation speeches” are to encourage me as well. Sometimes I get caught up in the day to day just like everyone else. One minute […]
Archives for November 2017
Magic and Miracles
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Our holiday lights have been up for over a week. Each night they come on, the kids faces light up as if it was the very first time they saw then. They are smiling with excitement as they ask how many days until Hanukah? How many Until Christmas? Our family celebrates […]
And Then There Were Three
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Thank you readers for hanging in there with me for this daily blogging challenge! Welcome to day 28 or as I really like to call it…THREE DAYS LEFT!!!! Including this one of course for all of you who know how awful I am at math. Don’t get me wrong. I love […]
The Moments
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn There are these moments in parenting where we question so much of what we do. Sometimes when everything goes right or close to enough, we can take a deep breath and enjoy it all. Or at least most of it. Being a mom or dad is exhausting for so many reasons. […]
In The Darkness
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Okay, so I admit the title of this sounds deeper than what this will actually be about but I had to get your attention somehow. Right? Growing up we always had a fake tree. There was one picture taken when I was about 3 next to a real one but my […]
BEFORE YOU SHOP
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Dear Me, Today, we will go shopping because there is a list that must be checked off. There are presents to buy for the husband and presents to buy the kids not to mention all the other people. It is so easy to get caught up in the holiday spirit and […]
The Road Of Thanks
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Once Upon A Time, a tomboy was standing by first base, glove open and ready for the next hit to come to her. The other players were scattered about yelling this and that to each other. Cars flew by on the city street behind all of us. If the batter hit […]
Parade of Gratitude
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Today class, I am going to show you how we write a narrative. Remember, it must have a strong beginning, middle, and end. Remember where most of our details go? Right! The middle. Now watch… I woke up excited on a cold Thanksgiving morning. It was so much earlier than I […]
Something Right
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn One of the things I will be FOREVER grateful to my husband for is being able to support our family during the year I took off from work after our son was born. We had tried for years to get pregnant. The infertility journey was one filled with emotions I still […]
Determination
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn From the start of my second pregnancy, I knew I was having a girl. I felt awful and completely opposite of how I felt when I was pregnant with my son. By week 15 though, I was good to go! Everything came somewhat easy after the delivery. My daughter was a […]