Happy Friday + Christmas Break!

Happy Friday, friends!  I don't know about you, but somehow December has felt LONG and gone by so quickly at the same time!?  We have done a lot of fun things, but teaching and working has just felt like a lot.  I'm happy to recap the highlights of our week and check in with you today.

The best parts of our week were... definitely not:

van trouble.  Working to get that resolved.

scheduling life around one vehicle.  Asking for rides and coordinating to the max.

weird health issues.  Also working to get that resolved with some follow up appts.

But we did have some good times in the midst of a stressful week.

1. Teacher snackle box!  Look at this cute box! Chocolate chip cookies, Christmas gummies & the cutest little sugar cookies.  I loved it so much.

 

2. Junior high teachers (and any teachers!!) LOVE Amazon gift cards.  Olive had the idea to do a gift card for each of her teachers because junior high teachers don't get a lot of gifts.  She had the best time being Santa Olive passing out presents to her teachers.

3. Being without a car for a couple of days has its perks.  My dad chauffered me to an appointment, a breakfast date and work :)  On Christmas pj day at school.

4. Christmas parties!  We headed to a new spot downtown for a delicious night of pizza.  Kevin's work party was at Spankey's Una Pizza Downtown.  The pizza was so good!  I love a festive dinner + date night.

5. I've been working on my nutella pastry recipe!  Stay tuned for a new and improved recipe next week!

6. Our Christmas cards are done!  Mr. Mittens was a great supervisor.

7. Leo got invited to a super fun birthday party at Deep Blue.  It's a local indoor play place.  His buddy is in my class so it was really sweet to see them play together and visit with everyone.

I offered to help him with his card.  He refused any help and said he already knew what he was going to write.  Sweet guy!

8. I really do not enjoy waking up at 5:30am every school day, but these cuties are always so excited to see me.  It kind of makes me forget that it's dark out and I'd rather be sleeping.

9. Leo loves PEZ.  He's been setting up ellaborate scenes.  This is his Christmas town.

10. Our elves have been busy!  We had a ton of fun doing some Christmas baking.  And the kids loved the snowflake toilet paper set up.

11. Christmas presents!  My assistant and I worked so hard to make personalized, hand made Christmas gifts for our families.  This handprint art turned out beautifully and we had the kids make a couple of ornaments for their parents.  It was a lot of extra work, but I hope the families will treasure their keepsake gifts for years to come.

I hope you have a great weekend!  I'll check back in next week :)

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