Week 7: Makes you smile

I thought about this for a while. There were so many things that I could've chosen. First and foremost is my amazing hubby. He makes me smile every day. I also thought of the yummy coffee I had this morning, but forgot to take a picture of it. I also had a special treat this morning - a donut (doughnut??) from THE most amazing place... The Country Donut here in good ole CG! IF you've never had one, you must. Again, forgot to take a picture, but that would've been a good 'makes you smile' idea since I hardly ever get them. But then, I knew. I knew exactly what to take a picture of. This most definitely makes me smile. A bouquet of flowers from my hubby, and the simple message makes me smile too.

What more can I say? How could this not make you smile? AND they were delivered to work so my co-workers and students got to enjoy them too. SMILE. YES PLEASE!

Valentine's Day

Here's the finished product!

This is the Valentine's gift that I gave to my students. They loved it! There were quite a few comments about how cool it was, and they all wanted to know how I did it. I did overhear one boy saying that he thought it was kinda creepy! That made me laugh! This was by far the easiest gift I've made. Last year I spent HOURS making bookmarks, only to have students asking me the next week if I had any bookmarks they could use! Decided that I wasn't gonna do that again. So, when I saw this idea in Pinterest (love) I knew this was the one for me.

Much LOVE,

Week 6: Something you wore

Well, leave it to me to wait until the last day to do this! I actually had a few cute things I could've posted this week, but since I didn't think about taking any pictures I'm going to use a picture I took earlier today that is going to be part of my Valentine's gift to the kiddos in my class this week, so excuse the silly pose. It'll make more sense once the project is finished. But, this is something I wore. And, I've worn it more times than I'd like to admit. I got it last weekend and it is just so comfy I can't help but wanna wear it!

That's it for today... lesson plans are calling my name.

I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's day too,

Week 5: Letterbox

Ok. Who came up with this idea? Apparently someone who has a pretty mailbox! Uh, I do not. Also, who calls it a letterbox? Was this list created in the UK? I think so, or maybe Canada?? People around these parts call it a mailbox. I have my suspicions, because also notice #26 Colour. Well, any way here is what I wish my mailbox (oh, oops. I mean letterbox) looked like:

This is nice, right by the front door. How convenient!

Or this, this is pretty.

LOVING this one. So sweet, I might not even mind getting bills if they were found here. Ok, maybe that's a little extreme.

Even this!

Nope. None of those are even close to the awesomeness of my... um, letterbox. I just feel fake calling it that, like I'm an intruder, like I'm trying to be in the cool crowd. Maybe if I had one of the above mailboxes as my own I could try calling it a letterbox, but I can't. Why? Because here is mine:

Oh, or should I say 'ours' since it's shared with the whole community. Once there was a day long before I lived in this house where I saw a set of these shared mailboxes and I thought how much I wouldn't like having to use those. And here I am, using one. And I was right. I don't like it. It's not very fun or pretty or personalized. Probably the mail carrier prefers them. They probably make their job much easier, and for that I'm glad. However for me, I like when mail comes to my door/my mailbox, it just seems so much friendlier. Maybe that sounds silly, that's ok.

Enjoying the idea of a pretty mailbox one day,

Week 4: Something you Adore

Really? This was not hard at all...

Oh, hubby. You are amazing!

There's no way you could tell by looking at the picture, but it was actually snowing outside and we went out to lunch after church. It was crowded inside so we ate outside under the heating lamps. It was pretty fun, but also a quick eat!

Week 3: Breakie food

Week three asks to post a photo of breakfast, well this is what I eat nearly every morning. An occasional Saturday might provide some variety, but otherwise here it is. It is surprisingly (or not so surprisingly maybe??) filling and keeps me feeling full all through the morning! Oatmeal with blueberries, craisins (dried cranberries, but I'm pretty sure most people know craisins), and walnuts (used to use almonds until Costco stopped selling the ones we like).

 

 

Ooooh. It makes me hungry just thinking about it!

It's kind of a joke around here how hungry I am when I wake up! I just can't wait to eat my amazing breakfast. I used to be the person who would eat cold cereal every morning, and many different kinds too! I'd have 4-5 different cereals in my cupboard to choose from. I don't know how or when I became the kind of person to eat the same thing every morning, but I kind of love it! I probably love it because cold cereal never kept me feeling full all morning, I'd be hungry by first recess. Now, I'm good to go until it's lunch! Thank you hot oatmeal, you make me happy.

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