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NEH Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture: Budget Reflection

JessicaApril 6, 2020April 1, 2020
NEH Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture: Budget Reflection
I keep careful notes of my budget while traveling, as you can probably see below. Traveling with NEH scholarship has allowed me to do transplant myself to a new town for weeks at a timeContinue reading
Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture: Itinerary
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Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture: Itinerary

JessicaMarch 30, 2020March 28, 2020

Sunday, July 7 I boarded my flight to Portland, ME at 6:39am (and nearly missedContinue reading

2019 Summer Round Up: Week 8
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2019 Summer Round Up: Week 8

JessicaJuly 25, 2019March 18, 2020

So I am way late on this Summer Round Up post because I got stuckContinue reading

Travel Diary: 06.19.19
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Travel Diary: 06.19.19

JessicaJuly 19, 2019March 15, 2020

I just finished my NEH Summer Institute: Teaching the Holocaust through the Visual Arts andContinue reading

Heading up to Maine!
Maine

Heading up to Maine!

JessicaJuly 7, 2019October 2, 2019

By the time this blog post goes out I will be in Portland, Maine forContinue reading

2019 Summer Plans
04. Later Europe & Americas

2019 Summer Plans

JessicaMay 6, 2019May 18, 2020

Soooo it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. Sorry! The hubs & I bitContinue reading

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Peace out school year 2022-2023 & H E L L O summer Peace out school year 2022-2023 & H E L L O summer!!! The Furiosi Family is ready for ya! 🌞 Somehow our summers are busier than out school year. Here’s what we’ve got going on this summer: 
1️⃣ @thefuriosity is going to Las Vegas for a semi-work trip & I’m going home part of that week. ✈️ 🎰 🏡
2️⃣ @thefuriosity is going to Kansas City for the AP Bio reading & I’m going to Knoxville to see @jbdickers with William. 🧬 ✈️ 🍻 
3️⃣ I’m going to Toledo, OH for a week-long workshop on Native & African American Art. IDK what the Williams are doing that week.✈️ 🖼️ 
4️⃣ July, we’ve got a one-week trip to Daytona Beach sorta for William’s & my dad’s birthday. In the middle of that week @thefuriosity & I are sneaking off to UF for a 2 day science workshop (Im going the arts & culture things instead). 🎉 🏖️ 🐊 
#jisforjourney #summer #summerbreak #summer2023 #highschoolteachers #almost2yearsold #summertravel
This is 3️⃣2️⃣! Fancy foods 🫖 loving st This is 3️⃣2️⃣! Fancy foods 🫖 loving students 🌎 & friends with babies galore 👶 #jisforjourney
1. This kid figured out how to turn on the shower 1. This kid figured out how to turn on the shower in the bath & kept gleefully yelling “RAIN!” 🌧️ 
2. My Aba is going to be living in the next six months in Spain and that is exactly what I wanna be doing in my life at 80. 🇪🇸 
3. Weekly Sunday video session with Ito & Ita. 📱 
4. The backyard is our favorite room in the house. No pool, no regrets. 🌳 
5 & 6. My favorite review activity with #aparthistory (plus it’s good recruitment!). Also why am I shuffling my feet like that in the video!? 🖼️ 
7-10. @acalvo_94 came up for the weekend with an Animal Kingdom trip & William’s new best friend: Pasta (or as he called the dog: “Pasha”). 🐶 
#jisforjourney #toodlerlife #bathtime #highschoolteacher #arthistory #mansbestfriend
Not much to tell this week: easy dinners 🍱 feel Not much to tell this week: easy dinners 🍱 feeling cute in my outfits for work 👗 acceptance to a 1 week @nehgov summer institute this summer in #toledoohio 🖼️ shit “raises” at work (the mystery continues on why no one wants to teach in Florida) 🙄 & finally a dancing toddler 🕺

 #jisforjourney #21monthsold #chacuterieboard #meatfriday #dancing #dresses #teachersunion #floridateachers #nehsummerinstitute #turndownforwhat
H O L Y W E E K 🌴💀🔥🌅 1 & 2. @thefurio H O L Y  W E E K 🌴💀🔥🌅 1 & 2. @thefuriosity was at State Science Fair Tuesday-Thursday so my MIL spent the days with me to help. ❤️ 3. This kid is feeling the beat. 🕺 4. I wholeheartedly agree that my hunny is a smarty & his students do some amazing things in research. 🧠 5. Holy Saturday Easter foods blessing. 🧺 6 & 7. A beautiful Easter mass at @oviedocatholic ⛪️ 8 & 9. Easter breakfast & our set up for the 5️⃣0️⃣ day Easter season! 💐 10. An impromptu backyard Easter egg hunt. 🪺 #jisforjourney #catholic #family #toddlerlife #holyweek #dance #barbie #easter #easterblessing #eastercandle #easterlily #easteregghunt
1. Like his mom, William also likes to cook when h 1. Like his mom, William also likes to cook when he’s cranky. 👨‍🍳 2. @besteasbubbletea getting me through “chaperoning” a tennis match. 🎾 3-4. All while William got to hang with the amazing @juleslovesreading ❤️ 5. 102 fever, luckily a short one. 🤒 6-9. Weekend hanging with his cousin, aba, Ito & Ita. 📚 💦 10. Palm Sunday was an interesting mass. We rotated between the adults walking the narthex. 🌴 #catholic #palmsunday #highschool #toddlerlife #cookingwithmom #meetingcousins #family #nap #jisforjourney
My mom’s LAST SPRING BREAK before retirement 🥳 
1-3. My parents took William to the Winter Haven airport to spend the day working on the plane & the hanger. (Yes it was chilly!) ✈️ 
4. Having fun with 20th century art with #aparthistory 🖼️ 
5. My mom took William to the library for story time. 📕 
6. Soup & Stations of the Cross (toddler style) with friends on Friday. 🥣 ✝️ 
7-8. Tavares for the annual antique car & boat show 🚤 🚙 + day date for us! 🍹🍸 
9. The favorite sandbox in his super fly church outfit. 🏖️ 
••• #jisforjourney #airplane #winterhavenflorida #librarystorytime #21monthsold #boatshow #arthistory #fauvism #highschoolteacher #cocktails #daydate #springbreak #abuelos #ito #ita #stationsofthecross #catholic #sandbox
S P R I N G 🏝️ B R E A K ~ 1. New book! @shan S P R I N G 🏝️ B R E A K ~ 1. New book! @shannonkevans 📚 2. Three days on the east coast visiting grandma, dear friends & the beach. 🏖️ 4. A nap that ended too soon was finished up in the hammock. 💤 5-7. St. Patrick’s day at the @centralflzoo & #sandfording ☘️ 🦒 8. Animal Kingdom morning with friends. 🌳 🦓 9. Sunday video chatting with @jeanette_ortega @j1nsu & house projects with dad. 🔨 🪟 📱 ••• #jisforjourney #disneyworld #animalkingdom #springbreak #beach #floridalife #feministprayersformydaughter #toddlerlife #stpatricksday
Last week we had exams because this week is spring Last week we had exams because this week is spring break. 🏖️ So lots of end of the quarter frustrations 😤 matched by silly fun with a toddler. ••• 1-2. Making cooking fun when one on one with a toddler is not easy but very much worth it. 👩🏻‍🍳 3. FaceTime with Ita. 📱 4. Sharing a meal together when @thefuriosity has tennis means dinner is SIMPLE. 🍕 🥗 5. Video from William’s amazing caretaker. 🛝 6-7. Picking up a few groceries @winndixie 🛒 8-10. Kicking off spring break with Saturday tennis, a car nap&  then afternoon #sanfording 🎾 😴 ••• #toddlerlife #cooking #tennis #winndixie #20monthsold #jisforjourney
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Hello! My name is Jessica & I am the content creator of J is for Journey; I started this blog way back in the fall of 2013 when I left to teach English Italy. And here I am, many years later, still blogging about travel, art history and religion – my three great passions in life. Now, with the birth of our son, I have added a fourth passion: motherhood. I hope you enjoy the journey!

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