It's a slow Sunday afternoon for a tardy Five for Friday!  Sorry I have been absent for a few weeks but my family is going through a major upheaval and sometimes just waking up each morning is the best you can do.  I'm moving forward though and thats a good thing!  If you are a prayer...say a prayer for us!  We need it! :)

Looking across teacher land it appears that most people celebrated the 100th Day of school sometime this past week!  Ours was delayed by 5 days due to the 5 days we had out of school in October because of the 1000 year flood that hit SC.  The kids had a blast and so did I!

These are just some of the fun things we did with links to the FREEBIE products that we used!

 Many of our AWESOME staff dressed up as well!  This is one of our assistants who even passed out mints! :)

 

And then there was this old gem...one of my teaching besties!  You can't really tell but she is about 100 weeks pregnant!  We have always called her the baby because she is indeed the baby of our team but today we called her Sarah!  As in Moses' wife! :)  Please notice the tissue tucked in the sleeve of her sweater!

We made these super cute 100 Days Smarter crowns.

They came from this fabulous TPT store!

And all of the kiddos, 3year olds through kindergartners worked on this fun graphing paper!

Another freebie from this site that was new to me.

Of course you can't celebrate the 100th Day without the 100th Day snack!

We used this one because I had the most of these items on hand! :)  There are a few other really cute things included with this paper!

 And our day ended with a sharing of our 100 things.  This was the best method ever!  I sent home a one pager that they got last Friday so they had all weekend to collect!  They brought their items in a plastic water bottle!  That kept everything in one place, projects were small and everyone got to share! 

All in all it was an outstanding day!

Like I said earlier, the last few weeks have tried me beyond belief.  I'm a Christian and its a good thing because my God has covered me with his grace and mercy and gives me these little gems every once in a while to remind me that I am His Daughter and He's got this!

And as if that wasn't enough, I came home from school Wednesday and this was hanging in a cute gift bag on my front door.

I mean REALLY!  I cried.  Real. Live. Tears.  It can be overwhelming when you have friends this awesome!

I may have mentioned a time or two that I go to a most amazing church.  It's one church many campuses...12 to be exact in SC.  Seacoast is the name and it's my home away from home.  I walked in 5 years ago and never looked back.  Once a year we have an outstanding Women's Conference called Chosen.  About 1500 women attend and in 24 hours we are renewed, energized, centered and brought to our knees by the power and presence of God!  This year was no exception.

We heard from amazing speakers, worshiped like nobodies business and were reminded to be Fearless!  We are amazing, strong and courageous creations.  Gifts from God to the world.  Daughters of the King.  It was a message the I really needed to be reminded of.  God is so, so good.

This is one my girls from church!  We rode together and stayed together and drank wine together and loved some Jesus together!

I went for a pretty speedy run the next morning.  It was 42* and I was not prepared to run outside but I needed to put down some miles so ran around the shopping mall across the street.  Freezing but felt great!

Another of my church bestie joined us down there and we shared a hotel room with her!  Such fun!

We even took a quick minute to run to IOP and say hello to the water!

Can hardly wait for it to happen again!

I am lucky enough to have my youngest punk attend school where i teach.  He is also in the mOntessori program and is in his last 80 days of 5th grade!  His teacher has this white board outside the classroom door.  The kids are in charge of changing the message.  

That's good stuff right there!

I'll get back to more school stuff next week but just wanted to share a little of the personal stuff this week!

Have an amazing week!

Not Yo Regular Teacher stuff...update!

Okay so maybe the whole, "Let's be cool like Jen from I Heart Organizing and get everything in order real quick like." wasn't quite as fun as I thought it would be.  I spent all week thinking about which of my 4 areas I wanted to tackle first and then had to just default to the car because I could complete it the quickest!  That is so slack!  It's okay though...because it is done!  And let me tell you, it is beautiful!  Check it out!

This was the glove compartment before cleanup. The manual that actually belongs in there is sitting on top of about 87 million napkins.  Who in the world needs this many napkins?! No worries, they were all flattened out and moved to the house for family use. Once I removed all the paper product this is what we were left with.

Such an easy fix!

Next was the center console. What a nasty disaster!  The cup holders were grimy, there was melted gum on the tray along with all sorts of gross! I took all of it out, threw a bunch away and wiped it all down with Clorox wipes!

                   

And now it's all clean and purty!

           

The car door catch alls were just as bad!

                       

Apparently we aren't a family that likes to part with trash.  But it's all good now!

                       

Next I tackled the floors.  I'm really not sure when the floor of the van last saw a vacuum but for Petes sakes!  Ridiculous! This picture doesn't do it justice.  It was covered with crumbs and dog hair and trash!

                       

I had to start with a clean out first.  Every single thing came out in the driveway and the vacuuming began!  I put my big punk on this task (you can see him in the back seat) and he did a great job!

                       

                       

                       

Once the floors were clean I used clorox wipes and dusted every surface. 

Once the inside sparkled I made the punks (big & small) wash the outside and they made that shine too!

The Mr. T Van is back to its fabulous self! Now we are going on vacation for a week! That oughtta ruin everything!

Check back over at I Heart Organizing and see what others have accomplished on this grand organizational journey!

Summer Reads! (A Linky!)

Can't beat time to sit down with a good book!  For me that rarely happens during the school year so now that summer is here I have already zipped through 2 books!  Thought I would share those with you and share what I have on my To Read list as well!  After you check them out, hop back over to Lucky to Be in First and take a look at all the other teacher bloggers that are enjoying a good book!

The Summer Girls was finished this morning!  I've become a little hooked on Mary Alice Monroe so now I need to read them all! :)  They are set in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina and it's a story of sisters in the summer!  This is the first one in the trilogy!  Can't wait to read the other two!

Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos is a wonderful story of family and life.  Everything by her is great!

The Precious One is another favorite by Marisa de los Santos.

The Shelter of God's Promises is a great Bible Study that I just finished with my small group.

And then a few that are on my to read list...

The Summer's End and The Summer Wind by Mary Alice Monroe are the next two in the trilogy!

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty seems to be on everyone's list so it sounded good.

All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior is a book I picked up at a teacher conference after hearing her amazing keynote about how tough it is to be a mom!

So, this is just a few that I plan to dive into this summer!  Stay tuned for more good books as the summer rolls on!

Don't forget to hop back to Lucky in to be in First to see all the other teachers who have linked up!  MANY great books to read this summer!

Not yo Regular Teacher Stuff

I thought I'd share a little of the life stuff with you today.  Not the teacher stuff.  One of my favorite websites for a long time now has been I Heart Organizing.  It's kind of funny because I am not the worlds most organized individual but I love taking on projects that get things organized.  

Things like the mess of trinkety like things in my kitchen/office space:

Or in my classroom:

This one isn't mine (it's packed away right now) but I got the idea from this fabulous post!

Or the boys Legos: 

I know, they are missing a few labels...vinyl is in the mail!

I really am more in love with the concept of organization than anything else! :)  And with that said it would make sense that the last few months have been a disorganized chaotic mess!  There are piles all over the place and entire rooms that need to be organized and I'll be darned if I didn't stumble over to I heart Organizing and found her 4 week organizing challenge!  Perhaps a little divine intervention? :)  So, check out her challenge and watch for my progress reports for the next few weeks.

These are the big organization projects for this summer!

1.  That room affectionately known as the Christmas Closet...AKA  HOT MESS

and that's just one side people!!

2.  My car...whew

3.  My craft room...AKA CRAP room!

and this doesn't include the closet!

4.  The mess of files and papers that represent the important documented parts of our life!  No picture because these things are stashed in different places all over the house and need to find an organized central location!

So, stay tuned as I see what I can do about tackling these messes!  And maybe even win a little something in the meantime!  And don't forget to hop back over to I Heart Organizing and check out all the great projects she has going!