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Here we go, January! Rather than make sweeping declarations for the entire year that I know I'll fall short on, we're going to take it one month at a time this year. I like being able to adapt as...

New Year's Eve was certainly quiet at our house. We tried to scrape some plans together sort of last minute, but it the end, all our peeps were also having low key celebrations at their own house....

Friday nights are my absolute favorite time of the week these days.As soon as I get home from school on Friday, I feel like the world is limitless. It's such a nice relief to come home and not...

We got an email today from Chris' mom about doing family Christmas pictures while we're up in Redlands for Thanksgiving. That of course led to me reminding Chris we need to do our own Christmas...

So it seems my illustrious 8th graders have started googling me. And sadly, it's very easy to find me thanks to a certain Mr....

... making my bed in the morning... organizing my house... creating awesome, technologically amazing lesson plans... just lounging around with my husband... taking longer naps (because I have to fit...

Sooooo... I haven't really announced this on the blog yet, but I suppose I should get around to it before school actually starts. I got a job teaching 8th grade math at a local charter school,...

This happened today:

This happened in our little condo today. Jesse and Lily stopped by for a bit, and we happened to have some really green smoothie leftover from dinner. Hannah and Abi just ate that thing up, straight...

Chris coming home from work is always the highlight of Jack's day.

This little guy wandered into the middle of Taylor and Buck's ceremony yesterday, and I mean literally in the middle of it. They were standing up in front of everyone when this little guy waltzed in...

I had such plans for this week off. This is our "summer break" right now, a week off over the Fourth of July week. Working at a year-round school ain't all it's cracked up to be sometimes.What was I...

We are living it up in Palm Springs this weekend. Got to Redlands last night and stayed with Kris and Becky overnight since the T family had taken over all the rooms at Chris' parent's house and...

It's 12:46am, I'm laying in bed waiting for sleep to overcome me, and sadly, it just isn't. Darn that ten minute nap at 7pm!I figure it's a good time to blog.In lieu of a real post that actually has...

Busy weekend.Capstone project in progress. (Two more weeks!)Lesson plan demo is taking up my entire weekend. (Hard to make a perfect lesson plan when you've never seen the classroom, kids, or...

Did you know there's a gif app? So easy, too! Here's a gif of my lovely husband shooting at our LA County Museum of Art trip over Memorial weekend.Wish I had more time to update about life and...

Yeah, it is.What shall I do this weekend?Work. Cook. Farmer's Market. Edit. Organize. Sleep.