Almost break

Not counting there is only 1 day until the break. I'm so ready. I'm feeling very frustrated today with all kinds of things, so my blog probably won't be very good today. It is all our yoga instructors fault. she wasn't there yesterday so she had this other girl fill in. Nicole is a great yoga instructor, and Pam sucks. Nicole warms us up and stretches us for like 30 min. and Pam does maybe 10. I'm always sore the next day because of Pam. That's why we quit going to her pilates class. It is the most boring and monotonous hour when Pam fills in. She doesn't know enough yoga moves to take up an hour so we do the same old thing over and over and over. We did warrior 1 and 2 five different times throughout our workout. I needed some good stretching and stress relief and I didn't get it. We didn't have it last week because there was no power and we probably won't get to have it next week because it will be the day after Christmas. I'm going to quit teaching and be a yoga instructor. I think I would be a much more relaxed person if I did that.

Less than a week

I can't believe that Christmas is in less than a week. We also only have 2 more days of school not counting today. I'm ready to be able to sleep in! Actually, I'm just ready for the summer break too!! The HGTV dream home is in Florida this year. That's were I need to live. Scott and I can win it and Mom and Dad can move down there with us. Then I can go on cruises all the time because I won't have to pay to fly there!! I'm not feeling very motivated for school today. I'm tired and I have had this nasty cough for like 2 weeks. I told Scott we should have a Christmas party every night until Christmas! It's because my party was so much fun. Here's a list of what I made:
mini pizzas, spinach artichoke dip, shrimp cocktail, Caesar salad bites,Oreo cookie balls, red velvet cake balls, chocolate covered pretzel sticks, chocolate dessert cups filled with french vanilla mousse and topped with a fresh raspberry, chocolate fudge, mint fudge,my snowman candy suckers to match my snowman Christmas dishes and Oprah's pomegranate martini. I ate lots of everything!! Almost everything I made was a new recipe and it all turned out well. I've discovered that I don't really have an interest in cooking dinner and things like that, I prefer making little specialty candies, decorating cakes and things like that. I should be a pastry chef. We grilled steaks for dinner last night and this morning while I was getting ready Lola got in the trash and strung it all over the kitchen. It's a good thing her Daddy wasn't home because he is the major animal disciplinarian and she gets her feelings hurt much more when he gets onto her. Scott has to work on Christmas so I'm starting to feel really bummed about that. Hopefully we'll work out some fun way to do our gifts and stockings. I'm just going to go over to Mom and Dad's because if I spend the morning alone at my house it will just make me depressed.

Electricity and back to work

Well, it's been a while since I've posted. We didn't have electricity for 3 days and then when it came back on our phone didn't work. If I wrote about everything this past week, you would never get done reading it. It was definitely a crazy week. It's amazing how you take something for granted and don't even realize it until you don't have it. No power and sun was really hard, because I think we are all secretly supposed to be living in Florida, because our family doesn't do well without sun. I didn't get to work out for a week, so now I feel fat. especially after all the good food I ate at my party and Deborah's party. My angelfish at school died. I'm very sad because I had him for 2 years. He was probably the biggest angelfish you had ever seen. He was the first thing I saw when I came in my room. My kids had a naming game and named him. I think I will have to get a goldfish for school because they are more hardy. Mom and I did lots of shopping to pass the cold dark days. she finished her Christmas shopping and I did a little for myself. I found a coach purse for 25% off at Dillard's and treated my self to that. Naughty Beth. I also got some other really good deals at New York and Company. Mom and I got our hair cut on Saturday and that night we went to the Nutcracker and then El Chico afterwards. They have half price appetizers after 9:00, so we took advantage of that.It was really hard coming back to school today. not counting today, there are 4 days till Christmas break.

Friday!!

A weird thing happened yesterday. The more I was around my kids, the better I felt. It's just very strange to me because I never planned on teaching very long, but my little kids here are so sweet, that it really makes me wonder if I might do this for a while. Or at least until I have my second kid! After my suggestion our group decided to forgo the gifts and use our money to buy toys for toys for tots. One of my fourth graders said "shit" in class yesterday. What's great about teaching little kids is that they love to tattle on each other. So of course one of the boys from his table comes and tells on him and then I asked the other kid at the table if he heard him say it to. He said yes, so I call the kid up there and asked him if he said it. He said no, then I did a lot of threatening and he confessed. I'm so good! but, while I was lecturing him about how we don't talk that way and all kinds of other stuff I was feeling a little guilty. for those of you that know me well, you know that I have developed quite the potty mouth, so it was like the pot calling the kettle black. I couldn't not gripe him out though. So now I have decided that my potty mouth has got to stop. Plus, Mom told me if I did it around my kids she would spank me in front of them. Last night we bought some awesome toys to donate. I have to drive them to church after school. As of yesterday they still needed 1,200 toys.
I fell in the shower this morning. A couple of years ago I fell out of the shower at Mom and Dad's and the curtain rod hit me in the forehead and I slammed into the wall because their bathroom is so small. This morning I fell back into the shower. It was all Nelly's fault. She has decided that my chap stick is her new toy. The other day she carried one of them off and put it in a shoe in the closet and it took me days to find it. I bought a new Burt's Bees last night and I heard her knock it over on the sink. I had just put shampoo in my hair and I peaked out and she was on the floor with it in her mouth getting ready to run into the closet. I knew I had to save it. We have a deep bath tub with jets in it, so it is kind of a big step. I stepped one leg out and grabbed it from her, and on my way back in I fell. I scratched up the under side of the leg that was out of the shower, bent 2 of my toes backwards and landed on my shoulder. I thought I dislocated it, but it just hurts really bad. The bad thing is that Scott slept on the couch so he could watch TV, so even if I yelled for him to help me he wouldn't have heard it. So I had to lay there for a second and feel sorry for myself and then get up and go on. So right now I hurt all over. What a way to start Friday.

Frustration

I'm feeling very frustrated today. We had our community group last night, and I was enjoying it for the most part, then everything just seemed to bother me. Our group has gotten really big, which is a good thing, but the people who bring food every week don't bring enough for everyone. There were 17 of us last night and we had one casserole dish of pasta, a small salad and one loaf of bread for us all to share. And, the people who were supposed to bring a dessert didn't show up. I never get enough to eat on Wednesday nights, and that is very frustrating. We are having our Christmas party next week. Before Thanksgiving we decided we were going to do 1 white elephant gift and 1 nice $15 gift. Of course, since I'm so prepared I bought it right after we discussed it. Last week we discussed it again and it was changed to a $15 to $20 gift. Then, last night someone felt the need to discuss it again. So it has been changed to no white elephant gift and 2 $10 gifts. One for a guy and one for a girl. My gift was a nice $15 gift set and now I have to go buy 2 more gifts. I don't think it's fair for me to spend more money when you know no one else will. On top of that we have our prayer partner reveal that night and we have to have a $25 gift for them. Then I have a $15 gift for my secret pal at school. I'm not even looking forward to our Christmas party. Then I have my ornament party that Friday. I invited all the girls from my community group. I sent it out a month early before anyone would have plans. Then, I had to ask them in person if they were coming and half of them are now going to different Christmas parties. I just find this to be very frustrating. But, the people who want to be there will be. The less people that come, the nicer food and alcohol I will have! I feel like everyone is focusing on the gifts instead of what really matters. I think I'm going to send an e-mail to our leader and say that instead of buying gifts for each other we should give the $20 as a couple that we were going to spend on gifts and donate it to our church for Toys for Tots, because they still need toys, and it is this weekend. This is what happens when I don't get enough to eat.

Christmas Candy

Yesterday was a good day at school. It seemed kind of long, but it was still a good day. I've been having so many more of those lately. It's kind of nice! When I got home, Mom and I went and worked out and then I decided to make something new for dinner. It wasn't really new, I had just never made it for Scott before. It is the lemon chicken with rice that Mom used to make for us. It was pretty good. I'm having some for lunch today because I'm out of my frozen WW meals. After dinner, (well pretty much while I was cooking dinner too), is when the obsession started. I made a ton of Christmas candy last night. It was easier this time since I had done it before. I made a lot. I even hand painted the Santa suckers. I told Scott not to let me make any tonight. In fact, I even hid all my candy making things in the guest room closet! I'm making chili for us to have for dinner tonight. I think Mom and Dad are coming over too. Then I have to dust for community group. I might not though because they don't use their coasters that I set out for them and then I end up having to clean the glass on my tables twice. I think I'm going to have Scott vacuum though. He was supposed to do the dishes last night and he didn't, so I did them this morning before I left for work so I could have everything out and ready to make chili. I already have all my spices in the pot. I even used my peppermint cleaning kit from Williams Sonoma and cleaned off the kitchen counter. I will say that I knocked over my snowman mug with my peppermint mocha coffee and it went all over the counter. I guess it was because there wasn't that much on the counter to begin with, so my coffee thought it would help me out a little bit. I even used my peppermint dish soap on my pan, my peppermint hand soap and my peppermint lotion. Let's just say that if I walked by you this morning you would want to lick me because I smell so good!
I made these cute pictures yesterday at school. you rip up pieces of construction paper and make pictures out of them. I made a snowman and then I liked him so much, that like everything thing else in my life I made 3 more. Now I have a Santa, a tree and a Rudolph. Hobby Lobby has their frames half off and I told Scott I thought it would be cute if we framed them and hung them in the entry way to decorate for Christmas. He didn't like that idea. I think he thinks they are to childish. I think they look cute. I'm going to have my kids make them to take home. If I figure out how to add pictures I will post them on here.

Well, my weekend is already over. It went by way too fast. I don't enjoy the weekends when Scott works very much. Sometimes I don't mind, but this seemed to be a weekend that I did. Friday we had our holiday gathering, and it was fun. Saturday morning I got up early and went shopping. I got some great deals at NY & Co. a pleasant suprise was a sweater that I thought was full price rang up at $7.99. It was kind of like my three cent cake. They had sent me a coupon for $25 off a $50 purchase. You can't beat that. So, I now have 8 new sweaters this week instead of my 4 from last week. I have a little problem where if I really like one thing my philosphy is that at least 3 or 4 more of those same things in different colors will be even better than my one thing I really like. I do that with pretty much everything. It's something I'm trying to work on! Saturday night Scott went to his parents house and I went over to Mom and Dad's, and we went to Bueno for dinner and came home and watched the Grinch. Scott came and picked me up and he had gone and bought all the fancy liquer to make the Italian Mudslide Martini from Macaroni Grill that I love. We drank it in the tub. It was great! I think I can safely say that our whirlpool bathtub was one of the best investments we have made! But, I think that about my flute, the fireplace, my car and getting all the cats declawed. Sunday Mom and I went to church, but we decided to go to Starbucks first because we had time. So we thought. We sat in the drive thru for like 20 min. and were 5 minutes late. Our seats were still open, we just had to sit a little farther down than usual. The, of course crazy Mema comes in late and instead of sitting next to me she goes and sits on the other side of Mom so she can sit next to her crazy old lady friends. Then some lady's husband came in and instead of them scooting down on their side because there were 2 empty seats, they very loudly (b/c most of them are almost deaf and refuse to wear hearing aids) tell us to move down. They all got pleasant looks. Then we went to Aldi to go shopping and then to Michael's. Michael's is the best place ever. I can officially say that I have a new hobby. I now know how to melt and make those candies that you put in the molds. Mine are Christmas one's and I hand painted mine, so I have to say that they look pretty awesome. so, in the past 2 months I have added making flower arraignments, wreaths and candy to my repertoire of crafty things. I went to Dillard's yesterday evening with Mom and Dad for their discount night. It almost wasn't worth it because the discount is down to 10%, but the Godiva was 25% off. I think I got the rest of my Christmas shopping done though!!