Sunday Salon - March Madness!!

 By the time March comes around, my students are anticipating spring break (so am I) and warmer weather (me....well okay, at least Spring Break doesn't USUALLY mean snow for us) — not to mention the rapidly approaching end of the school year (Can we be in the count-down already?!?) Due to all of these distractors the students are really crazy!! Yep, in first grade we used to call it the Miracle of March (when all students somehow really learn to read) but in 4th grade we just call it March Madness!! To keep myself sane during this wild and wacky time I'm making lists.....

Work....Grades, contact a few parents, Tutoring, SmartBoard lessons, planning, Testing Prep, meetings, Take apart the data, Back up computer to the Z drive, Book Study notes (even at work I am leading a Book Group!!)

Itinerary....The Tucson Festival of the Book is this coming weekend!! We are plotting and planning and being totally frustrated that the event schedule is so hard to see on portable apps. Argh. I have a list of authors I do not want to miss!

Celebrations....birthday cards to two of my boys got mailed and received on their birthdays - no small feat!, Rich had an interview and has another tomorrow - go get 'em babe!, there's only one week left before Spring Break, we went walking (gosh exercise IS possible!), a phone call from #3 son, my friend's PET scan came back clean!!!, I cleaned the whole downstairs yesterday, I mended some things, mopped the floor and I'm still sugar-free for 2 weeks now, I discovered sugar-free Bahama Bucks...yum!

Books that were recommended this week...Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes (already started and it's scary and intense...we'll see...)The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees. I love good recommends.

Books I've been reading this week....The Marriage Bureau for Rich People (still), Into the Darkest Corner, Teach Like a Champion (again), and a few instruction manuals. Yes, I am that kind of girl.

General to-do items.... Life insurance quotes, groceries (it's not my week to cook but it IS my week to shop - - a good trade!)Pay bills, pray for 20-20-20-20 for Miss Em, email a friend who's getting married, email my mom MUCH more faithfully this week...I was a bum last week. My list goes on and on but you probably get the drift.

Search out...the perfect Bagel, a good new ethnic restaurant in Tucson, a gift for someone who has everything, and a nice pair of black boots for next fall.

Random....J and I are planning a Hawaiian vacation list - we'll get there someday, make an appointment to get my haircut, write a friend, laugh more tomorrow, sleep through the night....

Okay the lists are done, the dishwasher is going, my lunch is packed for the morning, the lights are off for the night and all is quiet in the house...now I will go to work on that last one...sleeping through the night.

Sunday Salon

This is where I've sat all afternoon and evening...working on lesson plans and data.

I think my brain even forgot it was time to update the Sunday Salon.

So....better late than never.

Listening -- To the Oscars! What a blast! I love movies and now I'm craving popcorn. 

Eating -- Granola, Honey Greek Yogurt and too much bread. My weakness.

Loving -- Our wacky weather! From snow all across the valley, to a new weather word - - graupel!

grau·pel

 noun \ˈgrau̇-pəl\

Definition of GRAUPEL

: granular snow pellets —called also soft hail

Origin of GRAUPEL

German

First Known Use: 1889

Reading-- The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama, On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

Feeling -- 1. Grateful for weekends. I love them. 2. Excited about some upcoming job interviews for my better half!! Keeping my thoughts positive and my prayers going!

Thinking -- I wish I was an organized person. My classroom needs a revamp, my cupboards at home need a revamp. If someone would come and do it I will live with however you do it. I am just missing that piece of my brain! I will maintain it and keep it tidy if you just do the work! Any takers?!?!?

Wanting -- A haircut and color...a pedicure...a spa day. Mmmm. Keep wanting. 

This Week -- Meetings and teaching, I'm cook for the week, #3 Son's birthday all the way out in Biloxi, Mississippi, and nothing else. I am so excited that I can come home and nest each and every night and not have to go anywhere. I just may get all of my grades done :)

Perfectly Presidential Monday

As decreed by some President...somewhere...this was a perfectly Presidential (and beautiful) Monday!

Ok...except I had to get my eyes dialated

AND...

I couldn't read

AND...

I got a migraine.

BUT....

I don't have any icky eye problems and my eyes are actually getting better with age

AND...

because I couldn't read I didn't have to sit at the computer and do lesson plans

AND....

because of Excedrin, my migraine was not a doozy and only lasted 3 hours

SO....

now I will eat some medicinal Cheetos and go lose myself 

in a book!

It's a great day.

Happy Monday!