6.11.16 Today is our second wedding anniversary (see what we did for our first!) and we are in sunny southern Spain this week with my sister, her boyfriend, and my parents. When Will and I got married we said that the only thing that mattered in celebrating our anniversary was to eat paella and drink [...]
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JSTOR: Wedding Cake…or Pie?
In light of my second wedding anniversary I am including this awesome blog post by JSTOR's Daily Blog, "England's Obsession with Queen Victoria's Wedding Cake" by Erin Blakemore, it's an awesome blog if you are into random intellectual stuff!). Personally, I dislike cake so at our wedding, we had pie, 6 different types of pie and [...]
Summer Book Swap 2018
Each summer my husband and I pick a book out for each other that we have to read. It's a fun little tradition we have done every year we've been together (read HERE for information about our past summer book swaps). It really forces us out of our traditional literary comfort zone and provides common [...]
Summer Plans 2018
I am incredibly excited to announce our summer plans for 2018!!! There's a lot going on, like always! 🙂 First off, Will and I BOUGHT OUR FIRST HOUSE!!! The process was exhausting and stressful but thankfully not too drawn out. Whatever free time we have this summer will be spent decorating and some DYI work. Looking [...]
Travel Tips for Teachers
Both my husband and I are teachers so we totally understand the unique opportunity and limitations teachers have before they can take advantage of traveling throughout the year. However, we have been able to actually leverage our careers as teachers to allow us to travel and here's how. Disclaimer: we do not have any kids, [...]
Happy Easter Triduum 2018!
I hope you have a family filled and blessed Easter Weekend (Easter Triduum in Catholic speak). We're going to a spring festival Saturday afternoon and then attending the 8pm Easter Vigil at All Souls in Sanford. I am a sponsor for a coworker going through the RCIA process (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults). They [...]
End of Spring Break Round Up
Well it is Sunday night of Spring Break and I feel decently rejuvenated to go back to school for another Quarter. So here's how we stacked up again our Spring Break goals: Packing for our move - CHECK! WE ROCKED THIS Lesson plans for the first week back - CHECK, I could have done more [...]
