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oh just a few things.

1. i love this blog and she uses this camera. and i want one. terribly.
2. tonight i'm going to make this recipe. i had planned to repeat the enchiladas from a few weeks ago, but then i found a new food blog this morning and realized i already have the ingredients for something new. hooray!
3. i have the most amazing husband ever. last night i was way too sick to make dinner (again) so he ordered pizza, then brought it up to bed on a tray so we could eat together. he also put the flowers he got me for v-day on the tray so i could enjoy them close-up. love love love love.

sick days

home again for my second sick day. on my to-do list:

sleep some more. take my anti-biotic. drink lots of lemon tea. make some phone calls for my beloved husband. cook dinner for the first time this week. stop by the thrift store to pick up a couple treasures. sleep a little more. finish my book for the book club i wont be attending tonight due to the potential for sharing sicky germs.

funny tidbit:
last night i said to joel, "i think i was delusional this morning. did i do or say anything weird?"

his response: "well, you did mess up my lunch... i don't really like lettuce sandwiches"

haha. what a goofball. i definitely was thinking clearly enough to make him his usual peanut butter. although lettuce would have been a healthy alternative...

so cute!

ummm, isn't this video so darling? i wanna go to paris now!

(found via design mom. one of my new daily blog reads)

merry christmas to me

Joel gave me (us?!) tickets to a broadway musical for christmas. it's called "parenting 101" and should be hilarious!! we're driving downtown to the kimmel center after church and going out for a valentines day lunch at one of my fav philly spots, sahara grill.

sooooooo excited to spend an afternoon dressed up. in the city. with my husband.

(no, we will not be wearing our swimsuits. it's not warm enough for that, yet. but i love this picture, so i wanted to add it)

my new watch

meliss bought a sweet red watch from pixel moda a few months ago (right after i bought a professional black watch to wear for teaching, which soon got ruined by paint during a halloween activity... but i digress...) and i have been eye-ing it for a while now.

so 3 weeks ago i went and bought myself a blue one. it was a tiny bit big, but i didn't really mind because the color was cool. unfortunately, it stopped working two days later. i took it back in, they "fixed" it, but then died again.

this morning i went back to exchange it and they had TONS of colors in size small, which fits better than my original watch. hooray.(keeping my fingers crossed that this one doesn't die, too. i would be soooo disappointed!)

what a wake up call

yesterday morning we woke up and joel asked me "how'd you sleep?" (as usual). i said i'd slept fine, but had had a strange dream where i was in the school cafeteria doing a puzzle with my co-worker, amy.

after i told joel about it, i said, "kinda a nerdy dream i guess."

he responded: "kell, i hate to break it to you, but you're kind of a nerd"

haha!!!! i have never had anyone tell me that in my 26 years of life!

3 days in my life

so on monday one of my kids blew in like a thundercloud 15 minutes late. he grabbed his paper off another student's desk during a peer editing session. he whacked his seatmate for making a slightly annoying comment. when i corrected him, he ran out the door, slammed it with all his might, and took off down the hallway. another teacher took him to the principal's office but when he came back he refused to talk and wouldn't tell me a thing about why he was acting so weird. i wrote a note to his dad asking him to call or email me, but didn't get any response.

(also on monday my student didn't show up for what was supposed to be her last day. apparently they moved to montana a little early...)

tuesday two third grade boys knocked on my classroom door to tell me that one of my boys had tried to put their heads in the toilet. my student got called to the principal's office and suspended for two days.

yesterday morning we had a two hour delay. 7 of my 20 students didn't show up. there goes my lesson on fractions. there goes moving forward in our story. there goes prep for the PSSA. today i got multiple letters from parents asking me to excuse their child due to inclement weather. seriously?! you all live within 2 miles of the school building!!

(while i definitely think my posts about teaching would be far more interesting to others if they included photos, it's probably not kosher with my school to put the kids on the internet without parental permission. darn.)