In May 2007, my mom, sister, and not yet year old nephew snuck away to Florida for a long weekend. I called in sick to a job I was leaving at the end of the year and we just enjoyed some time in the sun. It was so great to play hooky.

I promise. I’ve been lurking in the back grounds of your slices. I’ve read about your friend get togethers and children. I’ve read about classrooms and students and administrators. I’ve read about your favorite cheese and even a coffee cake.

I have a secret. I’m embarrassed to admit it. It sometimes makes me feel like a shitty mom to reveal this secret. You might have the same secret. Maybe it makes you feel weird, too. Maybe you don’t care.

Early spring day always brighten my mood. I Like to open the windows and let the fresh air in. I leave the window open at night. The cool breeze helps me sleep like a baby. Then the early morning sun shining through the break in the curtains helps me to wake up with a smile. How can you not be happy on mornings like that?

McKenna had a tooth that was all wibbly wobbly. Even after working with the little ones for 23 years, a wibble wobble tooth still gets me. It is not my thing. 🤢 But she’s been “working on” this tooth for days. It was THIS close.

When I was a kid, I was an avid reader. I would devour anything I could get my hands on. I would end up reading shampoo bottles or cereal boxes when I ran out of good books. It didn’t matter. If it had words, I read it.

I’ve written several posts over the years about my daughter’s envious hair. This one contains a myriad of her favorite styles. And here I wrote about the donation that made me cry. She only gets it cut a couple times a year. Always by my sister at her home salon or beauty salon when she was working in one. Once when Covid first began, we missed a appointment and my sister cut it in our kitchen.

I have been in education for 23 years. In that time, whenever I was a classroom teacher, we always did a science unit in March about machines: levers, pulleys, ramps, and the like. This way the students could put that new knowledge to good use. I assigned an optional project creating leprechaun traps. I assigned it a good 2+ weeks in advance. In writing, they would develop explanative paragraphs detailing how the trap worked. In literacy we read stories of Irish folklore and leprechauns. The kids had a blast with it. Reminders were sent the week before the traps were due. Then the kids brought them in on March 16 so we could set them up before we left. We always left directions for the night custodian about how to man the traps. The kids were so excited.

This weekend we watched the new Pixar movie Turning Red. It was released in Disney+ and sounded like a good way to spend an evening. Pixar movies are always a win in our house. We were pretty pumped.