Welcome back!

Hello to everyone! I really want this to be something I do more and more. I guess I am destined to be a sporadic blogger until life calms a bit...oh well!

Well there are only 3 weeks left of school, and this chick is missing three of those days spending 5 nights away with Miss J in a tropical destination! Let me just tell you I am VERY excited!

Softball ended just over a month ago, and we had the best season of my coaching career, and the best season the school has had in 15+ years. We lost in heartbreaking style in the game before the district finals to the eventual champions. It was a great season, with all the pitfalls and drama that comes with every season!

Last weekend I completed a project for my dear coworker who is retiring and I will miss desperately next year! (I made it out of al of her old spirit shirts)  Here is a picture of her with the completed quilt.

I absolutely love the way it came out and so did everyone at school! It was the hit of the week. It is double sided and it makes it even better!

Here are some more pictures of the quilt and the label...

Here are some other projects that I have been working on...

holiday appropriate pillowcases for mom's round pillows and my pillow...love it!

I also made crayons! I took all of the little pieces that my students broke into pieces and melted them into new crayons!

I got this mold at Ikea for 1.99...

If you are going to make them it is hard to clean up the mold afterwards, and I would suggest using silicon because it made it easier to pop them out. Also try to keep the colors similar otherwise you will end up with muddy brown crayons... but it was super fun! Do it!

Ok enough for now, tomorrow I will be back I hope! 

Canada isn't a State?

Today during my classes yesterday, the students were working on a geography scavenger hunt, looking in the book to figure out the answers to questions about geography.

One of my students was looking for the Grand Canyon and she was complaining about the fact that she couldn't find it. I said well it is in the US. She continued looking all over the map and proceeded to ask if the Grand Canyon was in Canada. I said "sweetheart, Canada isn't a part of the US." She responded "What? Canada isn't a state? But then we would only have 49?" During the process of trying not to laugh out loud in her face, I promised her that we did indeed have 50 states not including Canada.

During my last period of the day another student asked me if the hemisphere was the air around the earth....I explained that was definitely the atmosphere, not hemisphere...oh freshman!

Well, in addition to keeping me on my toes and laughing, my wonderful students gave me a nice cold to suffer with for the 3 day weekend so I am laying low, sewing, watching movies and drinking tea.

Winnie

Winnie came into our lives on August 11, 1998. There was a thunderstorm, and Winnie was running around in the streets like a crazy person. She didn't like thunder and lightning...Well thus started nearly 13 years of Winnie in our lives. She was an angel on earth. She was a garbage gut and ate anything you gave her, including a 1 pound chocolate bar under the Christmas tree! She slept with me (on occasion relegating me to the far corners of the twin bed we were sharing...she was only 20ish pounds, but the dog could growl!)  She was always excited to see us, and gave us wonderful licks when we returned. She will be sorely missed! She will be forever in our hearts! I miss her already!

Love you Winnie!

Where to begin...

Good morning,
 Well as I sit here listening to pandora, I am in my best look busy and no one will bother you mode. I am hiding! I am hiding from anyone that may want me to sub for another class. You could say that I am hiding in plain sight, but I have decided that by writing this post, I look very busy!
  School is over in three days, and I can tell you that this teacher is very ready! My seniors graduated on Saturday, and it was a beautiful ceremony, and I am glad it is over!
   The end of the school year has seemed to drag a bit, which is surprising since we waited soo long for spring break which was soooo late, we all figured that the end of the year would happen upon us in no time...WRONG! It has dragged on like no other!

Anyway, for spring break I headed north to the land of New Jersey, birthplace of both my parents, and new(grudgingly) home for my dad and B. They are there because adorable niece lives there, and they take care of her. I spent break sleeping, reading, visiting with said adorable niece, and a little seeing Fish, and sightseeing! My dad and I went to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, which I must say was impressive. I lived for 24 of  my 27 years within 2 hours of both of these places, and it took until now to get there! Definititely go if you have to chance!

After the Statue, my dad dropped me off at the ferry to NYC and I headed in for Aunt J's birthday. Well I was sure that I would be fine timing wise...Ferry at 4:30, taxi by 4:45 definitely up to the east side by 5:30...wrong again. Friday night in April (a beautiful 80 degree day, perhaps the first of the year) at 5ish is the worst time to get a cab in NYC. So I found one (thank you god!) and then sat in traffic heading up town...what is a girl in shorts and a t-shirt to do in the back of a cab?  That is right, get into her cocktail attire in the back....why not? The driver was intent on the conversation he shouldn't have been having while driving me, and I pulled a fast dress over the front, tee over the back change, then shimmied out of my shorts, combed my hair, and arrived at the apt only needing to put makeup on! Very impressive if I do say so myself!

Here I am at dinner...fascinator and all!

Here is Maggie recovering from all the Royal Wedding excitement!

Dinner at the Patron's Lounge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was as impressive and delicious as ever (complete with tiaras and princess Kate masks, Aunt J's birthday is the same day as the Royal Wedding!)
Afterwards I was able to go out with some Wes friends. We played beirut (not beer pong, just saying) and had a great time seeing old friends!

Since getting back, mom and I celebrated my birthday in Orlando, mom left, and I have spent quite a bit of time sewing and chasing Maggie around like the nut she is.
Exhibit A:


Here are some projects that I have recently completed and let me tell you there are a ton waiting on deck!

Thanks for listening to me rant, back to hiding in plain sight!

S

Hidden backpacks...

So my day was fine, but it just got hysterical at the end of the day.

I had a crazy headache during 5th hour and then lunch, and when I came back after lunch it wasn't too much better, but leave it to my 6th period honors class to make me feel better...Just to give you an idea this is the class that told everyone I was drunk at the baseball game on sunday and dancing on the dugout. (I wasn't by the way! I did however get roped into the trivia contest where I had to stand on the dugout and answer a Mets question) One of my 6th period students was at the game, hence the rumor I was drunk and disorderly.

I arrived and unlocked the door for all the kids. Two of my students were mia and I figured they would come in with some harebrained excuse...they did of course, something about picking up garbage...sure, sure...

Well one of the kids hid Eddie Haskill's book bag in one of my back cabinets. I had no idea, but when EH came back he knew immediately that his book bag was missing and that The Beav had something to do with it...

I went on with my lesson, and during this time, EH told me "I don't understand why you are still teaching, we have a serious problem here!" At this point I am on the verge of hysterical laughter but managed to keep it together. EH is walking around the classroom opening things, demanding that I open my A/V cabinet,  interrogating his classmates and generally disrupting everything. In his best Eddie Haskill way, he told me that he couldn't take notes without his backpack (he rarely takes notes to begin with!)  I told him I had no idea where his backpack was and that he either needed to sit down and hush or go report it as missing to the resource officer. He left the room, at which point the Beav ran to the back of the room and pulled the book bag out of the cabinet and placed it on EH's seat. I lost it at this point and was hysterically laughing...the kids were yelling at me that I was going to give it away, and I tried to pull myself together....needless to say he came in, found his book bag and caused a little more of a ruckus.  My headache was alleviated by the endorphins from laughing!

Anyway here are some picture of my classroom:

The students hands decorating my back wall

one of the creative things one of my students created

My crazy desk area

messy desk as always

It is a little better now, but if I work really hard I may get it back to this mid-season form soon!

Until next time,

S

Day off!

So it is raining here in Sunny FL, and we had the day off from practice...Hooray!! I love the girls and even practicing but I am/always am sleep deprived so a day off allows me to take a nap, and today that is exactly what I did! An hour and a half sleeping with over two hours just laying in bed cuddling with my "siblings" see below:

We had some very good cuddle time and I got some much needed rest :) yay for days off from practice! :) everyone needs an afternoon off once in a while :)

Until next time,

S

So I have a problem...

With buying fabric...these picture are old too!

I would be seriously embarrassed to show you my room now, it is stocked with fabric and seriously messy...but I LOVE it in there, it makes me soo happy to go in and sew!