I am not finished with this layout. There are lots of little things I want to add or tweak. But… I have been too busy to do any of that!

I got a new car! And by new, I mean brand new! When Colin and I got our big income tax check with the new homeowners $8,000 credit, we knew we wanted to get a new(er) vehicle so he could have my white blazer and we could get rid of his. His is older and rides like a beastie. We kept putting off looking at cars. Well we finally got to it a couple of weeks ago. For three days we drove all over looking at SUV-type things. I’ve only ever drove a blazer and didn’t think I would like driving a car that would be so much lower to the ground. I also wanted an SUV because it would most likely bounce deer off of it. I am very picky about color and I didn’t want something black, white, red, or silver. That narrows things down a lot! To make this story that’s starting to get long shorter, I found a celestial blue Mazda 3 and that’s what we ended up going with. Yay!

Last weekend my mom and I had a yard sale. For the two days we had it we ended up making over $500 all together. We wanted to get rid of things badly so prices were cheap! What we had left (and there was a ton left!) we gave to the mother of one of my students I had this past year. She’s started a place where people in need can shop for free!

Tomorrow, Colin and I are leaving for Canada. We are flying out of Nashville so we have to get up early. :p Later tonight we are taking Annabelle to my parents’ house. They are going to cat-sit her. I have a ton to do, but don’t really know where to start! The hardest thing to pack is clothing. I guess I will pack a little of everything since there will probably be cold and warm days.

With all of that said, I will hopefully find some time to write whilst in Canada. I’m sad I can’t just use my iPhone freely while there. Hopefully I will find lots of wi-fi spots so I can send messages from Twitter.

This time tomorrow I will be on an airplane!!

My last post was June 29th? Seriously? :blush:

I have no excuse other than school started back thus I have been obsessing over lesson plans and such. School is better this year now that I don’t have to do my internship. I have a great group of kids this year (overall). I also have a smaller class – 18 this year – which is totally awesome. I sometimes miss all the time I used to spend on Twitter, my website, and the internet in general but I really do enjoy teaching and spend a lot of time planning lessons and such.

Right now we’re in the middle of the Gingerbread Girl craze. She ran away on Friday. The kids were even more excited about it this year than last year’s group was. It’s really fun. We’ll be making gingerbread ornaments, and cookies, and cakes this week. Fun times! My mom made another gingerbread house around my classroom door and it is even cuter than the one last year! Way more color this time around. I’ll have to take a picture of it this week.

Christmas is right around the corner. I have a lot of shopping left to do. I also have many crafty things I am working on. I am working on adding items to my Etsy shop which has been ignored for a couple of years now. I am going to be adding some major cuteness to it, and I can’t wait!

For now I leave you with this yummy treat I baked up at Thanksgiving. More on my Flickr.

And the layout… it was coming along well, but then I got busy. And now I think I may have a new idea.