3 Years Ago Today...

Three years ago today I married my best friend. I always knew that he was the one for me...as corney as it sounds. Josh is such a wonderful husband and I couldn't ask for more. The last 3 years have been busy and a lot of fun. I am looking forward to seeing where the next year takes us or what it brings us (hopefully it brings us something, for my mother's sake!)

I love you husband! Happy anniversary!

Recent Crafty Stuff

So this year I have tried to have some kind of hobby so that I don't spend every waking minute working on school stuff. I have absolute no creative ideas, but I am pretty good at duplicating something I see. Here are a few things that I have done this year...

This is my first attempt at painting a canvas. I got the chair behind it and needed some art work to match (don't look at the blue bedding...it has since been replaced with a chocolate brown to match) I saw a great idea to make cookie pops. After several trial and errors, I finally got the hang of it. These are the cookie baskets that I made for the wonderful secretaries at my school for Secretary's Day. These were so easy and look harder to make than they really are.

I got a Cricut cutting machine from my dear husband for V-day. I have really enjoyed creating scrapbook layouts, but my favorite thing to do is to create cards. I have started making many different kinds of cards and hope to someday maybe sell them. This is a thank you card I made.

I have also started to make baby burp cloths. I see these online and at stores and I always think, "I can do that". So, these are my first attempts. I made these for two teachers at school. I was very pleased with the way they turned out. Now if I just had an embroidery machine!

This is my latest creation. This one of 4 bags I made for the Toyota moms at my school. They had their graduation today and I thought a bag would be a good way to invite them back for next year. I also got some plain comp. notebooks and covered them with some pretty paper and added their names.

So now that there is only 4 days of school left I am getting really excited to have more time to devote to being crafty. Right now I am working out of our dinning room due to the fact that the spare room looks like a tornado went through it! I just bought two huge craft tables so I am bound and determined to get the room organized. I will post before and after pictures after I get to it.

Have a great evening!

Change is coming...Good change

Well it is offical...my job title for next year will be changing. I will no longer be a 3rd grade teacher. I will now be teaching 4th grade. This is such an exciting change for me. I get to loop up to 4th grade with my class from this year. If someone would have told me that I would even have the desire to do this at the beginning of this school year, I probably would have told them they were crazy! This school year has been the most challenging yet. I have several students who have "challenged" me . At the beginning of the year I thought for sure that I wouldn't make it this far with them. Well little did I know that this class was going to teach me so much. I use to think that I was a patient person, but now I know that there is an art to patience...an art that I am still perfecting. I have learned to look at difficult situations not as problems, but as "opportunities" and "learning moments". I have learned SO much this year and now it seems only fitting that I take this class to 4th grade. I feel so blessed to even have this opportunity. I just know this is going to be a good experience for me and my students.

Well, I hope everyone has a great Memorial day weekend. I spent the day today being LAZY! I slept until 11:00, which is crazy for me. Then I layed on the couch until 3:00! I finally ventured out around 4 to get some bathing suits at Old Navy (Jamaica will be here soon!) and to go grocery shopping. Tomorrow Josh and I are going to church and then a cookout at my dad's house. I'm going to spend part of Monday cleaning in my classroom and getting ready for the move down the hall. I'm also getting red highlights on Monday so that should be interesting!

Have a great weekend!

Oh what a day!

So this will be three days straight of blogging for me and that is almost unheard of! Today was crazy and not too fun. I went to the funeral this morning and it was very difficult. Even though I didn't know this woman, seeing my student so upset was very hard. I will say that he LOVED his monkey and couldn't believe the name I gave him. I don't think I mentioned in the last post, but the monkey is named Captain Monkey Pants. Crazy I know, but it came from a book he is writing. As I mentioned yesterday, I had to get some clothes for Monkey Pants and I chose a respectable superhero costume...batman. Anyway, he loved it and asked if he could bring it to school with him on his first day back.

Well tomorrow is Friday and I am SO excited. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Go Kris Allen!

I normally don't get into American Idol, but when I saw there was an Arkansas boy I could not resist. I am so pumped that he won tonight. I know it sounds silly, but I haven't been this excited for my state since I was in 5th grade and watched the basketball team win the national championship! All too often Arkansas gets a bad reputation and it is good to see my state well represented.

Well, we are down to 7 days. This has been a very tough week for me. I found out on Sunday night that a student in my class lost his mother. This was pretty shocking for me since I had just talked to her the week before at our Mother's Day lunch. I can't imagine what my sweet student is going through right now. Even though I went to school for 5 years to be a teacher, they don't teach you how to handle these situations. The rest of the class is so sweet and are worried about their friend. We decided to get a build-a-bear monkey for him since that is his favorite animal. I got it on Monday but had to go back tonight because my students informed me that it is NOT OKAY MRS. WORTHY to give him a monkey without clothes! I had to laugh a little because when I was young there were no clothes for my animals! My how times have changed! Anyway, I will be going to the funeral tomorrow. It is going to be a tough day.

Along with the funeral, I also found out about a big change that will be happening next year. I will share more about that later, but thoughts and prayers would be appreciated for this big change.

Well, I am off to bed...oh yeah, I just ordered a Kris Allen shirt for Josh and myself!

8 More Days!

Another school year is ending and I am SO ready for the summer. This has been a year of ups and downs and I think I am just ready for a break and a fresh start next year. I am planning a summer of reading, crafting, and RELAXING! I will have some work stuff to do, but I am going to make sure to take some time for myself this summer.

This has been a crazy busy month. My birthday was on the 6th and since I have tons of family, the birthday celebrating has lasted for the past two weeks! I have also been busy with end of the year school stuff. My school is celebrating author's day this Thursday so I have been busy and stressed getting my students' books ready. I really want them to turn out well because it is a keepsake they will have forever. I know that when I am a parent someday those things will be special for me.

Well, this has been another totally random post. I keep saying that I will get better at posting, but at this point I am not promising anything until school is out! Also, I am very excited to welcome my sister-in-law to the blogg world. Check her out here.

Have a great Wednesday!