Thoughtful Thursday...

Here's a thought that you can take literally or metaphorically because it can be applied as both:

Don't trust a cat alone in a room with a glass of Crystal Light fruit punch! This can lead to stains!

Let your minds run wild and crazy with this one! Have a happy Thought-filled Thursday! :)

Wordless Wednesday...

Wordless Wednesday...

My sad attempts at being more domestic...continued :)

So, the last week in January, my school participated in a county wide initiative to get students excited to read called Literacy Week. So naturally, I just HAD to participate because I am a sucker for anything to get my wayward students to even remotely think about reading in a fun manner. We teachers could choose different ways that we could actively, voluntarily participate and one of our options was to decorate our classroom door with a character or a book that we enjoyed. After much thought, sketches, and plans and coming off my completion of Harry Potter, I decided that I needed to honor the Hogwarts spirit by theming my door Potter pretty! I decided that I would create a tribute to all the Gryffindors at heart and came up with the idea of hanging a Gryffindor flag, with a golden snitch and the Hogwarts train station sign on and around my door. I didn't want to emblazon HARRY POTTER so obviously on my masterpiece, so I opted to create a conversation starter door, one in which my fellow Muggles would understand and appreciate and also one that the other students who weren't on the Hogwarts Express to loving Harry Potter could ask me questions about, which would hopefully inspire them to read it. Here are some pictures that I took of my labor of love. I didn't win the best door contest, but having the kids excited, if only for one week, about what I was reading and what they wanted to read was totally well worth all the glitter! (I figured this was a post worthy of being called being domestic! :))

List of Accomplishments in 2010!

So, I started blogging a list of things that I am proud to have accomplished over this year. I am making an addition to the information that will be on that list, which will include things I have done in 2010. I am making a well-waited for addition to my list today, so here goes:

1. Finished the Harry Potter series

2. Attended a concert of a musician that I reallllllllly love- JOHN MAYER!!!!: Let me explain. My sweet husband surprised me at Christmas time with tickets to go see John Mayer in concert in Jacksonville in Feb. Over the moon doesn't begin to explain how excited I was for that gift! You have to understand, mine and John's relationship - full of passion, repairing, love, building relationships, laughing, crying, sleeping; of course all under the umbrella of his music, not literally together, he and I. :). So I really love John Mayer's MUSIC (he's a little too weird to ever be my friend). So that gift that Marcus gave me just was overly excellent. So, Feb. 6, Marcus, John and I had a, like, 3 hour date. Needless to say, I LOVED the concert and I am sooooo happy that I can finally say that I have seen that musical Mayer in concert. So that is why this is a very worthy addition to my list, and I have my sweet, wonderful husband to thank for it! :) Here are a couple of pictures from the concert. It really was an awesome gift! :)

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