CURRENTLY! * I love Friends! Not many sitcoms I like to watch anymore. This was a classic!  *I love being home! I DO love my job! But really? Who wouldn't just rather be home and taking care of all the things around the house? Maybe just a year off to read ALL the books in ALL the piles, go through ALL the stuff in the house, finish ALL the scrapbooks.... * I'll get to the plans. They are not for the week we come back, so that is not helping. Those plans are done and prepped. Thank goodness! Thank goodness for the three of us working together!  *OK - my goal is to do a little every week! I just want to go through one drawer, one cabinet at a time. I'm not thinking (well, trying not to!) about the whole room, basement, cabinet. I just want to do one little part at a time. I will not be THAT sentimental with it all! I will let it go!  Seriously - who needs all this stuff!!! It's not helping that I know my mom and the in laws have full houses too! ...

2015? How did that happen? I can't believe it! I know we say that every year, but really? Time really flies!  So I thought I should start the year off with good intentions and write a blog post. Thank you Jessica at  http://www.firstgradenest.com/ I would love to bump up the small group instruction - both guided reading and math! How to get those math groups started? Finding the time, the energy, the support to get them going! I would love to them set up.... Here's hoping!  Ok what I would REALLY love to get done this year is to get my new classroom organized! I moved into the school in August. I was suppose to have two extra weeks to unpack, but since there were little creatures living in our school that needed to be removed! So I didn't get to unpack and organize it the way I wanted to! So I'm hoping to find/make the time to organize the cupboards and closets and drawers in my classroom. I am soooooo tired of looking for something and not finding it...

 Liebster Award!  Melissa at http://seebeanteach.blogspot.com/2014   nominated me for this award! How stinking fun! This award is for bloggers who are new to the game and trying to grow their readership!  I have to answer the 11 questions from Melissa, and then nominate 11 blogs of my choice that have less than 200 followers!  That might be the hard part!  1.  Why and how long ago did you start blogging ? I started blogging in 2011! UGH! I actually had to look that up. :( Oh my! I do remember that I was finding some kindergarten blogs on line as I was looking for ideas. So I figured I would start my own! 2.  What one word sums up the heart of your blog and why ? Happy - I hope! 3.  Is there something you learned late in your blog journey you wished you knew before ? I wish I knew how to be consistent with my posts and what to post about! I also should look into paying someone to customize my blog- feel the same as Melissa ! ...

Oh the happiness of a clean cabinet! I moved schools over the summer. We were given time to unpack, but I was shortened by two weeks. They needed to get rid of some "small visitors". I already had plans to go away - so I did. But it just meant unpacking faster and messier than I had planned. I shoved things in the closets to get the boxes emptied. I had started out a little neater, but then they said stay home and away from your room. So I shoved it all in! :-(  It's hot in the building on the weekend. I just couldn't bring myself to go in in that heat. Plus I think I might be getting hot flashes! :-0 So this Saturday I decided I wanted needed to go in! I knew my center signs were in there somewhere! I FOUND THEM!! YEA!! I pulled everything out of the cabinet and "organized" it by topic - abc's, beginning sounds, rhyming, general materials - on the tables. Then I put it all back neatly. I cleaned out too!!! I filled 3/4 of the recycling can! Yee haw...

Well, I promised myself that I would blog once a week. So I was planning on doing that Friday night and it is now Sunday night. Better late than never! I had a few ideas about what I wanted to blog about and decided I would go with what made me sooo happy this year!  At the back to school sale on TPT this year, I bought myself Schroder Shenanigans in Second's Blog Binder. This is the link to her site about it. http://thebalancingacticalllife.blogspot.com/search/label/blog%20binder This link will take you to TPT to get it. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Organizing-BUNDLE-Checklist-Blogging-Binder-AND-Tpt-Purchase-Binder-in-ONE-1195631 Did anyone notice that the font changed??? I don't get it but oh well! Anyway I loved putting it togeth er! It was sooo much fun! Then I laminated section dividers for it and took it to Office Max for them to bind it. I think I could be addicted to that! Even my hubby was impressed that it was so cheap to do! Plus I had a back...

Ok It has been a LONG time since I have blogged! I am really trying to make it a commitment this year! But as I type, I don't think my Currently will be able to be seen! Really - this has been a nice, relaxing day. A few little bumps in it - mostly klutzy stuff. So that's normal! I have some blog posts in my head - so hopefully that will help! OR you will get three posts in one day! lol  Here's hoping!  Oh I think I got it!! Yea me!!! I think I learned a new program too! Google Picasa! Thank you Teacher to the Core for the help! Here's hoping you hear from me a lot this year!