Beach Care Package
I’m a little ashamed to admit that I’m blogging while the hot messes from TLC’s American Gypsy Weddings are strutting their scary, scary stuff on screen. I need to kick my addiction to awful TV shows… but they’re so entertaining! How can you pass up a show with quotes such as, “I’mma marry my first […]
Sending Sunshine Care Package
This is it! The last birthday box post for a year (and hopefully, forever, since I’ll only be sending John birthday boxes if he’s deployed again). I know, I know. Afghanistan already gets a lot of sunshine, especially in the summer, but this is a different kind of sunshine… edible sunshine! I tried a different […]
The 100-Day Mark
I desperately want to open this blog post by saying, “Oh my gosh! Just 100 days? That’s crazy! It seems like yesterday that I said goodbye to John!” But saying that would be entirely false and a disservice to the energy it’s taken to chop a swath from John’s departure to today. It feels like […]
100 Days Box
So, technically, today is Day 99 of John’s deployment. But, he got the box I sent him and opened it already, so I can post pictures of the 100 Days Box! Originally, I was going to make the entire box 100 themed: 100 Grand Bars, 100 calorie snack packs… you get the idea. However, because […]
“Sing”lish Bulletin Boards
This school year, I’ve challenged myself to try to have a lot more fun in my classroom. So far, my bunch of kids are really great, and not having to deal with behavior management has given me time to be a bit sillier than I normally am. It’s so wonderful to be able to be […]
Birthday Countdown Box
Today was an awfully hot, miserable day. My classroom was insanely muggy, and the kids, while they weren’t bad, were sluggish and tired. I don’t blame them. J’s birthday was two weeks ago, and he received his packages, so I can safely post the care package I sent him. I definitely went overboard for J’s […]
How to Make Tie-Dyed Cookies
I teach junior English in an urban high school in Baltimore. This week, our classroom was so hot and humid, and I was so impressed with how hard my kids worked, that I baked them cookies. I know, I know– it’s just the first week of school. But the kids were exceptional this week. And, […]
Decorating Care Packages with Sharpies
Tomorrow, I will post pictures of tie-dyed cookies along with directions for making said cookies. Today, though, I thought I’d share my favorite box decoration. I sent this to J as a second box, but I didn’t take pictures of the inside of the box or what I packed inside. I can’t even remember anymore, […]
Day One is Done!
I’m sitting on my living room floor with a wine glass of water with the last Indiana Jones on (Legend of the Hidden Temple?)… whatever, it’s the one with the skulls and Shia LeBouf swinging through trees with demon monkeys. But the first day of school is over, and it wasn’t a bad one, so […]
Inaugural post
The 2012-13 school year starts tomorrow, so tonight seemed like the perfect time to write my inaugural post for this blog. Each school year brings such promises, possibilities, and questions– what will my students be like? will a bird crash through the biology classroom’s window again? what books will my kids love? how many fights […]
