This past week was a bit on the crazy side for me. Report cards are coming up and we’re starting small group instruction in earnest, so I’ve been pulling late days almost every day trying to stay on top of it all. Paul has been an immense blessing (as have people who have stepped up to help with the kids). He took them to National Night Out (an annual event at our park), he’s cooked dinner pretty much every night, he’s just…stepped in whenever I’ve needed him to, without complaint. I am so blessed with my helpmate! Consequently, most of the pictures this week are ones he took.
I decorated a bit of my classroom for Halloween. I just got a few things to put on top of the cubbies.Meet George (the skeleton) and Poe (the raven). I think George is going to become our class mascot and we’re just going to dress him up for all the other holidays.I really loved the “sweater” pumpkin, as the kids call it…and one can never go wrong with silver and black pumpkins. I also really liked the black and white beaded garlands.I found this battery-operated “Jack”-o’-lantern at H-E-B…the kids love it!The whole set-up.Enjoying some fancy ice cream at National Night Out.The cutest little deer I ever did see (well, I didn’t get to see, because by the time I finished at work, they were already home and her face scrubbed off because she had sweat off half the face paint, so I’m super-grateful for this picture).She was super-excited to tell me about the pony she got to ride.Abigail’s school picture: 1st grade.Joseph’s school picture: 6th gradeI’ve picked up a couple fun Halloween shirts for work. This is one of them.This is the other one. It was fun having the kids try to figure out the math for it. I had to teach them that multiplication has to happen before addition. Once I told them that, they got it pretty quickly.Abigail went to a birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza and, as you can see, had a blast.This is one of her favorites there.I went to bed kind of grumpily on Friday night. There’s a lot happening at work and with it all still being so new to me, I’ve been feeling overwhelmed. Yesterday morning I woke up from a dream about work (rude, right?) and was still kinda cranky. I got up, got ready, and opened the garage door to get in the car to go grocery shopping. As the garage door raised, I was hit with a gust of cool air and realized it was no longer a bajillion degrees. It was, in fact, 67° and it felt so good! I went and grabbed a cardigan (because I am acclimated, y’all…I was cold!) and headed to the store with my brain in a better place ready to take on the day. It’s Spooky Month and the weather is slowly starting to reflect that. It’s funny how quickly weather can affect one’s attitude!I picked up one of these (the dino, which is on the left) for my classroom (my students love these squishy things) and decided we needed one (the scorpion) for home, too. Abigail (who also loves these squishy things) was just a little excited to see it. I love that they are Día de Los Muertos-themed.
I almost only had one picture to post this past week, but then I put up Halloween decorations, so now there’s a slew of them. 🙂 This past week was full of our usual activities accompanied by coughing, sneezing, hacking, and sniffling. We’ve all been battling allergies. The kids have gotten by okay (well, Abigail had it pretty rough because she won’t take allergy medicine, so we’ve resorted to vaporizers and nasal sprays (which she surprisingly agreed to). Paul’s turned into a sinus infection needing antibiotics and mine turned into a visit to the urgent care a few days later to get a steroid shot and a z-pak just in case the symptoms continue after the steroids wear off. Putting up the decorations yesterday made the kids extra happy, which was a perfect ending to the week.
Showing her the ins and outs of Prodigy (a math app that she is using at school that he’s used in the past).Both kiddos were happy to see Vampire Snoopy again!One of my favorite decorations. I like how it’s Halloween-themed but also a bit rustic like the rest of my regular decorations.Jack, Zero, a Dia de Los Muertos pillow, Abigail’s spider from pre-K (I still can’t get over the eyes), and a little Shakespeare to boot.My BOO sign.Halloween countdown.The haunted house cut out paired with my new Nightmare Before Christmas pumpkins.All I added here was the spiderweb, skeleton dog, and some candles.I picked up this raven for my classroom (stay tuned for next week to see what I did there), but Abigail put it over here when I wasn’t looking and frankly, I liked it too much to put it back with the other classroom decorations.I switched out the fall sign for a jack-o’-lantern, added the Nightmare Before Christmas hanging, and added a little tea light. I also stacked the pumpkins since I needed to move a couple of them from a different spot.My piano is always my favorite decorating spot in the house.Fake spiderwebs across the bookcase.The dining table.ghooooost liiiiights!Jack-o’-lantern lights.I pulled out my birthday banner. 😉One of my all-time favorite lyrics from Nightmare Before Christmas.
This past week was Freedom Week at the elementary school. There were dress-up days each day, but I think I only got pictures of a couple of the days. There were a few days that I had meetings after school and Abigail was a trooper on the days that I wasn’t able to get someone to watch her. One of those days, I let her watch YouTube on my phone. Later that day, I opened up my Photos to look for something else and I discovered a few selfies she had taken, haha. Our week was pretty typical outside of that. Paul even squeezed in a home project on Saturday: a cabinet for our bathroom. It’s hard to believe we only have one more week until we launch into October!
This was camouflage day (in support of our troops). She opted to wear Paul’s old uniform. As we were getting ready to head to school, she popped over under the tree and asked if I could still see her. 🙂 It’s always fun to discover these little surprises on my camera roll.It always impresses me how technologically-saavy this generation is.I’m also lucky she only took three pictures. I can remember Joseph getting ahold of my phone (he was a little younger than Abigail is now) and taking more like 20ish pictures of himself. 🙂One of the dress-up days was Crazy for the USA day so it was crazy hair. I needed something quick and still comfortable, so I ended up with this.Abigail wanted the same criteria (quick and comfy), but opted for a different style.Our new bathroom cabinet. It goes over the toilet and I love that it has a ton of closed storage. Before, we had a set of open shelving there. I like this much better.
