What I'm Loving Wednesday

Hello everyone!!! :-) I hope you are all having a great week so far, I sure am. There's a lot that I'm loving this Wednesday....to link up click HERE

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Generous Retired Teachers

While I was eating lunch with my team on Monday a retired teacher came into the teachers lounge. She taught kindergarten for many years and just recently retired. It turns out that she was visiting the school to donate some of her books. I had no clue that she would've donated as many as she did. I was shocked when I went into the book room, there were hundreds of books! She was so sweet and gave me permission to look through them and take some home! I got a bunch of books and I know that my future students will love them! Here's a picture of all of the books I've accumulated thus far in my life...I just sorted and organized ALL of them!!!

I just love books...I think I might be a book-a-holic ;-)

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Middle of the Week Treats

Today for lunch my mentor teacher had a local resturant deliver our lunch to the school! We got pizza from Rosati's! It was just the perfect middle of the week treat :-)

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Girl Scout Cookies

I have a box of Girl Scout cookies that I have been enjoying this week! They're actually my best friend Paige's cookies...So Paige, I owe you a box of Girl Scout Cookies. :-)

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My blog award from Emily

Emily over at Live a Charmed Life gave me a blog award! I was so excited!!! Thank you Emily!!! It made my day :-)

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The Future Hubster

As always, it wouldn't be a What I'm Loving Wednesday without a little love for the Future Hubster! I am just so thankful that I get to spend my life with him. He is currently waiting to hear from his dream job, and is working hard at a job that he doesn't love. Prayers are welcomed for him to hear about this job soon. He applied for the job over a year ago and is still waiting to hear, it's been a long and tiring process. He amazes me with his good attitude about the whole situation.

"Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you." Proverbs 2:11

You know you're a teacher when...

The best day of the week is when the Scholastic order comes in!!! Seriously ya'll, there's nothing like getting your box of books!!! If you're a teacher, you get it ;-)

Such happy things in this box!

As a soon to be new teacher with my own classroom full of kiddo's I am constantly worried about having enough materials, being prepared, and having a great classroom library to start my kids off on the right track. I think I'm off to a great start with this order of books I just got. I have a lot of the classics and some new fun books that I love! Here's my lot of books, I just had to share it...I can't help it, I'm proud of my little library! :-)

I just love all of these books, and they're all MINE now! :-)

I've already read some of these with my little ones!

I am now the proud owner of all of the "If you Give a..." books...

As well as a Kevin Henkes set! These are just the cutest books!

My new favorite Valentine's book is Love, Splat by Rob Scotton. It is THE cutest book!

 

 Also, how adorable is the back cover?! I just love it! On another note...while at the Flea Market this week I bargained with a seller and got this entire box of books thrown into a furniture deal!

(Furniture will be shown soon! Here's a teaser...1930's dresser and vanity! Get excited!)

I got about 130 books thrown into my furniture deal...about 80 are going to be going to my future classroom! That's an amazing deal! This box is full of the books that are "classroom useable". I just have to say that I was so worried about not having books and being unprepared for my first year of teaching and now look at the surplus of books I have. God is SO good, and I can't wait to share all of these amazing books with my class someday! :-)

"O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant." 2 Samuel 7:28

Love is in the Air!

I just love February! Hearts, candy, flowers, cute crafts, and don't forget about Presidents Day ;-) ! What's not to love? I have some cute Valentines Day decorations that I have up at home right now, they just make me happy.

I got this in the dollar section at Target! It says "XOXO, KISS, HUGS, and LOVE"

Gotta love the holiday kitchen towels ;-) These are the first decorations I put up for each holiday! Some people feel that Valentines Day is a holiday that is pushed upon us as a society in order to make us buy the cards, candy, flowers and decorations. Personally I feel that it's important to have a day to recognize the ones you love. Not that you shouldn't do that every day regardless of a "holiday" ;-) In my class today we made some very cute Valentines Day crafts! We made "heart people" out of hearts, they're just precious!

I think it's too cute when my sweet little boys draw hearts for eyes! One of them was cracking up today as he drew, and when I asked him what was so funny he held his heart up for me to see. It had a heart eyes, nose, and hearts all over the mouth. Apparently hearts are hilarious now-a-days!

Here's my heart! I'm not much of an artist, but it was fun to do a craft with my kids today! After having a highly stressful day yesterday it was nice to have a relaxed day with my class today. Due to the yucky weather that the south is getting hit with a lot of little ones were out today. The roads were slick and icy this morning and some parents chose not to send their kids to school. So today was a great day to review what we've been learning so far this week!

I am going to take a few minutes to brag on the wonderful...the talented...the sweet and caring, Future Hubster :-) He is always amazing, but some days he simply outdoes himself. Today, due to the yucky weather, he didn't have work. So what does he do? Sit around all day and watch TV? NOPE. Play computer games? NOPE. Catch up on sleep? NOPE. This amazing man worked all day to bake chocolate truffles AND cook dinner for me! Talk about a CATCH! Since the weather was bad today he took me to school this morning, and when he came to pick me up he brought truffles for all of the first grade teachers! He even let me drag him from room to room and introduce him to everyone :-) For dinner he made the most amazing taco soup! I am so impressed and I couldn't ask for a better person to spend my life with.

HOMEMADE TRUFFLES. It does not get better than this. God truly does have someone in mind for everyone ;-)

Best. Soup. Ever.

All in all, today was a great day and I am feeling much better about the rest of the week than I was at this time yesterday. Granted, there's a high possibility that the chocolate helped me feel better ;-) Future Hubster knows just what I need in the middle of a hard week. I will leave you with this calming verse tonight...

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 4:6-7

They will run and not grow weary...

Hello everyone, it's been a long time! I've been so busy with teaching, lesson planning, running and life in general. Not to mention fighting off some nasty First Grade germs...which I imagine look something like this....

Thankfully I am feeling SO much better now!

Each day I have fallen more and more in love with my First Grade class, not their yucky little germs though! They are precious and I literally spend all day laughing at their funny personalities. This age is just such a sweet time, they're constantly hugging me and drawing me picutres. Today I even had a little boy complete a groundhogs day word search and when he was done he said, "I made this for you!". He even used his gel pens, just for me I'm sure ;-) In case you weren't aware, gel pens are THE big thing to have in First Grade.

While I was battling my nasty sick germs I ran another Half Marathon! My friend Jamie ran with me, although she finished much quicker than my sickey self. It was her first half and I'm so proud of her!!!

Here we are before the race! :-)

Jamie running!

Three words that sum up this race...heat, humidity, and HILLS!

Here I am crossing the finish line...my face is super excited because my wonderful parents surprised me and came down to watch me finish!!! :-) I have the best parents, I just love them!!!

How cute are they? I was so happy to see them after that long run!

My beautiful "congratulations presents" from the future hubster! He's so sweet and supportive. I am so lucky!

"But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:31

My First Week in 1st Grade

This week I started my last semester of college and my 1st Grade internship began. Where did the time go? It feels like just yesterday I was graduating high school and now here I am....only 119 days away from graduation!

I am COMPLETELY in love with 1st grade :-) It is so different from the classroom in was in during the fall. Going from teaching 3rd/4th grade Gifted and Talented students, to teaching 1st grade is quite a change! However, my students are bright, inquisitive, sweet kiddos. I can't wait to watch them grow over this year! They are at such a precious age, they finally have the "school routine" down and are learning to love reading, math, and discovering new information. It's amazing how much children already know by the age of 6 or 7! And who doesn't love getting personalized artwork  daily basis? :-)

I'm pretty sure I'm the tallest one, with the blonde hair and long arms :-)

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11