Horray and High Five For Friday!
12/13/2013This past week has been stressful, long and glorious all in one. Today I'm linking up with the beautiful Lauren over at Lauren Elizabeth to share my top five of the week!
1. Finals Week/End of the semester:
PRAISE THE LORD! Another semester down and only three more to go until student teaching. It seems as if I've been in school forever (in reality I'm on the 5.5 year plan, dumb moving) but as each stressful semester comes to an end I'm reminded that I'm almost to my goal. This semester has been rewarding and fruitful. The Lord totally blessed me through a new job with less crazy hours meaning more sleep and a healthier body. He blessed me through one of the better academic semesters in my career and through that a new member of Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society for education majors. And finally, the Lord blessed me abundantly with an amazing small group of women and three friends who have become my BFFS - since we're in college and all ;)
2. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Viewing Party:
One of my sweet friends is a campus rep for PINK by Victoria's Secret which is AWESOME! In honor of the fashion show this week they held a viewing party for anyone on campus with some sweet prizes and giveaways. A group of us all went and since we were one of the first 25 to be there early we got a little card to get something at the end of the night which ended up being a full size of perfume! THEN it gets better. My friend Hayley and I were talking about how we never win anything in raffle drawings, ever. We had played different games and wore our PINK clothes to get tickets and place in the drawings. At each commercial break they had drawings for all the different prizes. One of the buckets I place my tickets in was for three pairs of so cute undies, I am an undies collector! You will never guess it but, low and behold my name was drawn! I kinda squealed a little! Then Hayley's was called right after! We were dying because we had just talked about never winning and then we both win back to back.
And can we just take a moment and take in how gorgeous the last set was - Snow Angels. OH MY
3. TWO WEEKS:
Thursday marked two weeks left until Jonny is here for Christmas/New Years! It has been over 7 months since we last saw each other in May. I'm beyond ready to see him!
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| Last December when Jonny was here. Our anniversary dinner celebrated a month later |
This week started the #12daysofblogging link up that the sweet Amber [Mr. Thomas and Me ] and Erin [Hooley With A Z] are co-hosting. Basically, we're all blogging about the best time of the year - Christmas for the next 12 days until Christmas Day! Which by the way, if you're doing the quick math does not add up to 12 - we're taking weekends off.
Anywho, this link up has been a blast so far! It's been great to meet other bloggers and of course talk all about Christmas, which is my favorite time of year!
5. Loving My Job:
Like I mentioned earlier and the main inspiration behind this blog, is my new job and love for teaching. Last year I worked a similar job - before and after school care - but at a different school and through a different organization. Long story short, I left after some unprofessional things happened and my health and grades were declining because of the lack of sleep due to the crazy hours.
A co-worker over the summer told me about this parent ran co-op that she used to work for and said she saw that they were hiring for the same type of position. So I applied and a few weeks later I was starting my new job! At first I wasn't so sure about it since I mainly was working with pre-schoolers and that was NOT what I was looking for nor going to school for. But over the past 5 months I have grown to love the littler ones and love my job. Not only am I getting more sleep - yay for sleep - but I'm also able to work independently and have the freedom to run the program in a way that fits the schools' philosophy as well as my own, something I couldn't do previously.
And it also has led me to create my baby, this little blog, in hopes of being able to share our pre-school creations and inspire others and myself to continue in instilling the love of learning into all of the littles in the world.
PHEW! That was a novel.
If you made it to the end, snaps for you!
What has your week looked like?
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