I adore these spoon rests!! The design is so pretty! Ours is just boring stainless steel .
I think Jackie has several pieces of this collection. We'll have to get her to show us what she has. I love them, but they just don't fit in with my kitchen theme.
Yippee! AK shopping is a great diversion from the craziness of life!
Just like you have "those" days at school .... so does everyone else ..... nobody is safe. I think it would be a fairytale to love your job every second of every day.
I went to work and boy was I glad to come home. Just one of "those" days.
Good to hear you had a nice time with the girls just hanging out.
Please Disney Gods...give
MeMom back her
Disney Store.
I don't know what Crazy 8 is?
We did see African Cats in the theatre. Despite it's sad parts, I will still buy the DVD.
Lexi said the other day, that this movie came very close to making her cry.
(She said that while making fun of me for crying while we watched Toy Story 3)
She thought it was so funny that even though I knew what was going to happen, I still cried.
I guess I'm just an old sap.
I told my kids this will be a smaller Christmas too!
As my kids get older they do want less but it's the price tags that are getting bigger.
I miss the days when Aaron was happy with a $1 Hot wheel car and Lexi with a $5 My Little Pony.
As I go off to work this morning I can smile thinking...this day next week.... we are driving to Syracuse to start our vacation!!!
DMom told me last night that she wants internet in the room.
So I will be able to post pics for all of you while we are there.
I know every job has its bad days. It just seems like the education field is getting really dumped on right now. I was thinking on the way home from Jill's this morning about the desire to be happy - and what that would entail.
I decided happiness for me would be
1) heaven forever with all those I love
2) enough money to pay my bills, have plenty to give to all of the others that I want to give to, and finance 4-6 Disney trips a year
and
3) a job that made me really want to go and do it.
So, I told God on the highway in my 4-Runner, that I wanted, quite simply, to be happy.
We'll see what He does with that information.
Internet in the room will be great! We get updates!
Jill has made it very clear to Brooklynn about a small Christmas. Bella won't care one way or the other, since she's too young to get it yet.
I think it was called Crazy 8. It was like Gymboree - lots of matching groups of things.
I have cried at many a
youtube video, so I think I am most definitely a sap.
Love the Brooklyn zebra!!!
Hey, Jackie, don't you have some of those AK pieces? Will you show us what you have collected so far?
Great AK shopping pics! I liked the pins best of course! I didn't know they were doing African cat mystery sets, maybe there will be some left next time we get down.
We should have gotten a mystery pin. Brooklynn loved the movie. Maybe in October, if they have them.
AK shopping pics did indeed make me smile on this somber 9/11 morning. So looking forward to our upcoming trip/escape from reality! Sorry things at school are so stressful for you.
I know my school troubles are nothing like what many are going through, so just tell me to SHUT UP whenever you want to! One of the kids' friends from high school died Friday of an aneurysm. He was 27 years old. Lives are lost in tragedies like 9/11, children lay sick in hospital beds and hungry in countries all over the world, and I think I have the right to gripe about anything???
Shame on me, for sure! I am so grateful for the family and friends I have, and I rejoice that I have a job to gripe about.
It will still be stressful, but there are far worse things.
AK is the one park where we have never spent much time shopping. We haven't even gone in many of the shops. Looks like they have some pretty cool stuff.
You aren't much of a shopper anyway, so that doesn't surprise me. You should check some of them out sometime and give us some pictures of you and the family in some cool safari hats with Mickey ears.
Brooklynn makes a very cute zebra! Can't wait to see her next month!
I think perhaps she is looking forward to seeing you, as well.
I am sure she will talk your ear off when she gets to you.
Hope your school year stress eases soon....hugs to you. I understand the pressure!
Great shopping pictures from AK. I saw so many things that were neat at AK.
Cute Zebra Brooklynn!
I wonder if there are any really excited teachers left in the country?!?!?
AK has some unique things. If someone wanted to have a really neat African-themed room, they could sure get some cool stuff there.
Alright, I guess I'll have to pick some stuff from the endless shopping pictures (Great photos, btw!), since that's how I work... I guess I'll go with the 2011 Animal Kingdom pin. Though some of the more "authentic" stuff might be better... Hmmmmm... I don't know...
to Brooklynn's Zebra Disguise... shhhhhh...
You should hear her giggle when she thinks she is hiding. Last night, Jill went into Kroger to get ice cream. Bella went with her, and Brooklynn stayed in the car. She decided to hide from Jill, so as Jill approached the car, I rolled the window down and asked her if she had seen Brooklynn, because Brooklynn had gone in to find her. Jill assured me she had not, and she just had no idea where her big girl was. Brooklynn was softly cracking up all hunkered down in the seat. She thought it was hilarious when Jill opened the door and found her.
Wow MeMom, the changes in your district don't sound very pleasant. I'm sure similar things are going on up here I start full time student teaching tomorrow with a very nice social studies teacher. He teaches 11th and 12th grade and I'll be there all day, everyday until December. I hope I am able to live up to the standards that awesome teachers like you set so high.
Animal Kingdom is always a good way to make us DISers happy. Definitely the most detail oriented park, in my opinion. I love Brooklynn's zebra face
You may be joining in our whining sessions soon!
I hope you have a great experience. Maybe high school is better. Or maybe it is worse. I know I don't want to teach anything over 4th grade again. I used to want 5th, but as the years went by, and with what kids say and know and do today, I keep lowering the age I like.
Best of luck to you!!!
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I am very happy to report that after three and a half hours of work this afternoon, I am now only five steps away from being finished with the outline I have to do for the first evaluation. Maybe another hour and a half, and I'll be done. I hope my kids who have been out playing today all over the city are feeling my lesson vibes and will do a better job of listening and absorbing because of all of this paperwork. At least, that is the way the big guns think it works, I guess. 
Come on, fall break! 
..for all my teacher friends! 
We went to the mall, but there is no Disney Store. We went to Hallmark to get a gift, and Jill got a few things at Crazy 8. We ate at the food court. That was about the extent of that trip.
I start full time student teaching tomorrow with a very nice social studies teacher. He teaches 11th and 12th grade and I'll be there all day, everyday until December. I hope I am able to live up to the standards that awesome teachers like you set so high.
