Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, friends!  It's been busy here with all of the holiday cheer and festivities.  We are going in all different directions and packing in the Christmas fun.  Is it Christmas break yet??  You can find us counting down the days until December 20th.

The best parts of our week were:

1. Our neighborhood Christmas party.  We all brought food to share and enjoyed an adult's only night.  We also tried a new babysitter that was great.  Yay!  My bacon wrapped smokies & cookies were a hit.

2. Surprise gifts from a friend.  A work friend surprised me with my favorite drink and a smiley coffee cup ornament for my classroom tree.  Kind words and thoughtful gifts are the perfect combo.

3. This corner of my classroom makes me so happy!  I love my tree and my classroom is starting to feel like home.

4. This is a ridiculous favorite moment.  Olive and Fletcher love nothing more than a stroll through Sams on a sample day Saturday.  Last weekend they were able to sample - DINO NUGGETS.  They were thrilled because I never buy them.  They also talked me into a cart full of extra things - matching sweatshirts, snacks, chips and no dino nuggets for us.

5. It's pomegranate season! The kids love them and they are fun to eat in their school lunches.  We also tried out a few new foods - ditalini pasta, peppermint bells, jello and dry cereal.  They enjoyed it all.

6. Cookie stroll!  We had a cookie stroll at school were the parent/teacher group baked a ton of Christmas cookies for the teachers.  It was fun pick out a box full of cookies to try.

7. We had a team Christmas dinner and I'm still dreaming of my Texas Roadhouse meal.  This salad.  The rolls.  The cinnamon butter.  I loved having dinner with friends and loved this delicious dinner.

8. Homemade gifts are my favorite.  A teacher friend gifted me this tub of Dollar Tree Trail Mix.  We have all enjoyed eating bites of so many different things.

9. My favorite elf day of the week was this one!  The kids loved it and Leo still keeps telling me that he doesn't even remembering snuggling his elf pal.

10. How to earn bonus points with your K teacher: Write "I love you Mrs. J" on all your papers :)

I was going around doing a white board check and found this sweet message.

11. I'm working on my Christmas cards and Mr. Mittens doesn't want to miss anything.  He's a cute project manager, but not very helpful.  I need to get busy and finish my cards up this weekend!

12. A teacher friend surprised me with this pink and green dress this week!  She said she was doing a closet clean out and thought I needed the dress.  It'll be so cute in the Spring and it was perfect with a sweater on top this time of year.  It feels good to be making new friends and getting to know new people.

13. Tree Topper Day!  Fletcher and I sported our best Christmas hats for school this week.  My kids loved my light up light headband and Fletcher was Santa most of the day.  Seeing Fletcher at school is still one of my very favorite things.  He loves to help out in my room before school and he's like a celebrity to my kindergarteners.

14. Leo the Christmas Elf.  What a silly guy!  He wants to wear all the Christmas hats, clothing and is very into the Christams spirit this year.  We're watching Grinch any chance we get.  The cartoon version, obviously.  And he's making tons of Christmas art at school.  He's got a week full of Christmas dress up days ahead and he's already planning out his looks.

15. Christmas parade!  We took the kids to their first Christmas parade and I think we got more candy than we did at Halloween.  It was tons of fun and a little bit quirky.  I'm talking to you Bigfoot driving a tractor.  The parade was Charlie Brown themed and Olive loved all the Snoopy sightings.  She saw friends from school.  I saw students from school.  Then we saw cousins & my SIL which was a highlight.  We all enjoyed the parade and I scheduled a grocery pick up run on the way home!  Tis the season!

And now I'm ready for the weekend.

See you back here on Monday!

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