Thanksgiving Week is HERE!

I love this week.  TWO days!!!  

How was your weekend??  Mine was good. Nothing overly exciting.  Getting ready for the next couple of weeks, so I was super productive.  I got some holiday shopping done, made a super cute cake for my MIL's birthday yesterday, did some more purging from my house, won my $10 back at Bunco Friday night,did some holiday crafting, looked at a house, etc.


Here is the cake I made.  Waffle Cone Ice Cream Cake.  It was cute and yummy!

My goals this week....

I don't even know where to start.  These next two weeks are one of the busiest of the year for me.  Lots of things going on, lots of deadlines, etc.  If I'm short with you all, cut me a break.  

Tell me about your weekend and goals!

Feel Good Friday!

Happy"Feel Good" Friday!

• Thanksgiving lunch today! 
• We were here FIVE consecutive days this week!
• Only one Calomino kid in the house all weekend. Oldest is at Snowball until Sunday, so unless youngest is fighting with himself, it should be a relatively quiet weekend! 
• Bunco tonight with my girlfriends!  
• Maybe putting up some Christmas lights this weekend?

What about you?  What are you feeling good about?

This or That Thursday

This or That - Thanksgiving Edition

Green Bean Casserole or Brussels Sprouts

Pumpkin Pie or Apple Pie

Turkey Leg or Turkey Breast

Mashed Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes

Macy's Parade or Football

Shopping or No Shopping

Tree Up Before or Tree Up After

Cranberry Sauce in the Can or Homemade

Wordy Wednesday!

Turkey Tuesday

Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK!  What's your fave part of Thanksgiving Dinner?

I know I'm not going to win any popularity contests here, but I'm a Green Bean Casserole girl.  Yum!  It's my fave!

Funny GBC meme....

What about you?  What's your fave?

Monday!

Well, we have to be here for FIVE consecutive days this week, but we are rewarded with a few days off next week.  

How was your weekend?  Mine was like a blur.  I feel like it was just Friday!  
Friday night - HF hockey game
Saturday - did stuff for St. Joe's pancake breakfast and then had a wedding Saturday night.  
Sunday - Pancake breakfast, errands, and the longest/nastiest hockey game ever all the way in Addison. 

I'm tired today, but there is lots to do, so I need to be productive today.  

What are your goals for the week?

GRADE online stuff!
Get wish lists together for the families we adopted for the holidays
Mail my niece's birthday gift to Vegas

Gold Stars or Demerits?

Gold Star for me today.  I'm trying to conquer something little every weekend in preparation for putting our house up for sale.  I took another big pile of stuff to Goodwill over the weekend and I cleared out the entryway of my house.  I've been good about doing something each weekend.

What about you?  Are you giving yourself a gold star or a demerit this week?

Wordy/World Kindness Wednesday

It's World Kindness Day.  Make an extra effort today to be kind.  In honor of Mr. Rogers, I'm wearing a cardigan today for WKD.  Here's the trailer for the upcoming movie with Tom Hanks.  I think I will actually go to the theatre to see this.  

How many words can you find today?

Back at it!

Welcome Back!  Did you have a nice, long, relaxing weekend?? I'm happy to report that the mini break we had was much-needed and I used the time wisely.  

Friday was my son's birthday party.  Ugh.  There is a reason why I don't teach middle school!  

Saturday we celebrated my friend Jen's 50th birthday.  It was a really nice night.

Sunday and Monday were pretty chill.  I got stuff done.  Of course, not as much as I would have liked, but I was still fairly productive.  I even watched some stuff!  Toy Story 4, I finished the 5th season of Schitt's Creek, AND.....I'm not sure how I missed this, but Real Housewives of New Jersey came back on!  I'm only a couple weeks behind.  It's such a guilty pleasure to watch that dumpster fire!  

So, here we are...I think we can start the countdown to Christmas Break now.  26 more school days!  

My goals for the week...

Make earrings on the Cricut

Order St. Joe's Uniforms

Thursday night is a BINGO event I'm running.  I'm looking forward to that being over.

What about you?

Time to Celebrate! It's Manatee Awareness Month!

I BIG PUFFY HEART love manatees.  I'm a proud member of the Save the Manatee Foundation, and we adopt a manatee every year.  His name is Lenny. <<<--------  This is Lenny!

They're sort of my spirit animal.  They like to travel, eat, and rest.  They live in the warm water and are pretty friendly.  They are also an endangered species.  November is Manatee Awareness Month! 

If you're interested in learning more about these creatures, check out this link....  https://www.savethemanatee.org/

What's your favorite animal?  

Wordy Wednesday!

 

Too Soon?

Is it too soon for the "Holidays" to start?

My mother-in-law showed up at my house on Sunday with SANTA earrings!!! 

I LOVE the holidays.  I really do, but COME ON!!!  I'm not ready for Santa.  I think it's totally OK to start prepping, gearing up, etc., but we need there to be a Fall season and Thanksgiving!  The trees still have leaves!

What are your thoughts??

Monday!

Happy Monday!  I'm EXHAUSTED from my weekend, but surprisingly feeling productive today, which is good!  I've got a lot to work on in the next couple of days.  

My weekend was super fun!  STUCO did an excellent job on the Haunted Hallway!  You guys did great and got a big thumbs up from the carload of 7th grade boys I had with me and they can be BRUTALLY honest.

Girls trip to New Buffalo was super fun!  The house we rented was super cool. 

Goals for the week....
Surprise/Surprise!  St. Joe's work!
November Calendar
Student of the Month
P/T Conference Ready

What about you???  How was your weekend?  What are your goals for the week??

Feel Good Friday

Ugh!  I'm not ready for it to be 26 degrees and snow frozen to my car!  I'm tired today...and I have a SUPER FUN weekend ahead...and I'm already tired for Monday!

What are you feeling good about today?

1.  It's November 1st!  I think it's fair to say the holiday season can officially begin.  I'm not talking about putting up a tree or anything, but I think it's OK to start thinking/planning for the holidays.  I like that!

2.  Haunted Hallway tonight.  Loading up the minivan with a bunch of 7th grade boys for the Haunted Hallway.  They get to eat pizza in the teacher's lounge and think it's the bees knees.

3.  Leaving for Michigan in the morning with a bunch of my girlfriends for my friend Kelly's birthday.  We rented a big house in New Buffalo.  It's going to be super fun!

4.  Nick, my youngest turns 13 on Sunday.  My babies are growing up!