It's me, Charity

What I'm Eating this week: Monday I ate some of the Pulled Pork that I made in my crock pot on Sunday. It wasn't quite up to snuff but not horrible for my first time!I made chocolate cupcakes that evening since it was cool outside and tried my hand at making Jboz's famous chocolate icing. Tuesday, more of the BBQ, some pasta and a sandwich. Wednesday, I made Mix and Match Mama's Crock Pot Chicken Mushroom Ranch, which I put over mashed potatoes, vs her rice. I also made a cherry cheesecake! What I'm reminiscing about: What I'm loving: Summer!! I love not teaching super late every evening. Being able to get out and about in daylight, fabulous!! Summer is just a much more relaxed time for me, and even though it gets warm outside I would rather have it hot than cold! What I've been up to: I feel like I've been really active lately. Not necessarily busy, but just active doing things. Every Thursday I've been trying to get out and abo

Dee Henderson is by far one of my all time favorite authors. Whenever she has a new book out it is always a MUST READ for me. Earlier this year I went way back to the 90's and re read her O'Malley Series. Despite them mentioning things like beepers, :) the books were still SO good and their stories still ran true today. And that I think, is a mark of a truly great author. Each month as part of the blogger review program, an email goes out with the books available for that month, and it's always first come first serve. I just so happened to get the email a minute after It was sent and I hopped on to request Ms. Henderson's newest book as fast as I could! Superbowl Tickets? Or Dee Henderson's newest book? I'll take the latter. Needless to say I was BEYOND thrilled when I got the email that I was one of the few that got chosen to review it! I was even more thrilled when the book arrived right before my day off. Y'all.. this book is 428 pages long, an

 Last Monday, and really any Monday, can be summed up with the first two pictures. 1. Me in my Teaching Chair.  And 2. A Student at the Piano. (Please ignore her terrible posture :) )  And after I got done Monday, where did I head? Dollar General of course! I have no idea what I so desperately needed, but I'm sure it was life or death.  Tuesday some storms rolled through and I thought the sky was so pretty!!  Annnnd my pictures are all out of order again. ARGH!! Thursday I ended my work week with a lovely adjustment at the chiropractor. Which I promptly threw my back out again after heading to Salvation army and digging through the racks for an hour afterwards. not great planning on my part!!  Thursday I also had the surprise of a Trio at the Piano!! I love those kinds of Surprises!!  Wednesday evening I moved some furniture around in my living room. I had a tall bookshelf in the corner, but I found myself frequently sitting on that side of the co

( Three cheers to me for FINALLY finishing this post!!) Whew! I haven't done a Day in the Life post in a long time and now I remember why :) It was hard to remember to write down all of my activities and the time I did them. I tried to take pictures as well, but at some points kind of forgot. Whoops! I picked a Thursday because right now they are my busiest day and I wanted to full capture the insanity, and remind myself come Fall to not schedule people so closely together. # Teacher needs a break. My morning starts at 9:01 am when my alarm goes off. I lay in bed and check my email and insta while I try to make myself get up. I finally get up and take my medicine and hop in the shower at 9:30 9:44, out of the shower, got dressed, combed my hair and put my hair gunk in, made my way to the kitchen to get some life blood in me so i can wake up. aka doctored coffee. I make a cup of coffee at night and then put it in the fridge so I can have iced coffee in the a

Apparently I missed the memo on picture taking this week. Not quite sure what my problem was, but here's hoping I can remember the past week without much documentation!! Monday it was Hot. Oh was it HOT! Hot doesn't even seem like a strong enough word for it. I was inside teaching all day with the ac on blast and I swear it was still humid, sticky and sweaty. Blech. I spent my day in this chair with said clipboard teaching away.  I walked by my wall and did a double take. My littlest nephew looks SO much like me as a child! Our baby pictures are almost identical, and I think we really look alike as toddlers as well. I sent this pic to my Mom to compare, and she said we looked a lot alike, minus the look of terror on Lovemuffin's face. HA!  Weds was the day I had been looking forward to since July 31, 2016, other wise known as my last free massage. A place in town does free massages during the summer so students can get in their clinical hours. And y