December First through Six

I'm feeling fairly accomplished that I have kept up with every day of the picture challenge while teaching and planning for six classes a day. It usually makes for 10+ hours of work a day. Whew. I'm tired, and it's only Tuesday. Unfortunately all of my pictures were taken inside of my house because in this land of no-cell signal, I forget I even have a cell phone at school. #ain'tgotnotimeforthat.

Here's the highlight:
Light- It's a video of my oh-so-adorable cat Scout playing with her favorite laser light.

Tradition- This one was kind of lame. I took a video of our daily grammar practice for class. We do have a "tradition" of doing it every day. Basically the students have one sentence a week and do something different with the sentence each day. They dislike it, but I see them learning very slowly.

Morning- I didn't get out of bed early enough to get a sunrise like I wanted to since this was a weekend morning.

Winter beauty- It hasn't exactly been winter like outside yet, except for some dreary cold and rainy days, so I took a video of my newly "planted" Christmas tree. I'm extremely proud of Scout for not destroying it yet, although I caught her in it today.

Homemade- I would love to say I made some homemade cookies for this day, but alas that didn't happen. I was admiring my homemade ornaments that I'm finally able to hang on a tree.

To-Do List- I always have a to-do list. Sadly I didn't have a written one this time, but I do have an on-going list of vocabulary and classroom management techniques to try.

Here are the first six days of November.

Cheers!

Another December Photo Challenge in the Works

Hello my fellow twenty somethings! i hope i am not alone in thinking where the heck has this year gone? There are only 25 days left in the year of 2016 WHOA pure craziness! As the Farmers Daughter mentioned in her post yesterday, this year we are doing our December photo challenge a bit differently by using 1 second video clips meshed with multiple days photos together. Shout out to Granny Eyre for suggesting the 1 sec video app as a way to compile our pictures. So onto the actual photo compilation. This first video of mine encompasses Days 1,2,3,5,6. These photos represent, light in its true December form, a tradition of watching my most favorite Christmas movie, a morning of a capella singing of Christmas tunes, a tree that most definitely was not manmade so it counts as homemade in my book, and lastly a glimpse of my to-do list on this particular Tuesday in my life. Without further ado my video!

Days 1-6 but minus day 4 

If yall could please let me know if the link works, and if it's causing you any trouble, that would be great.

Captain Something Fun signing off for the night

Good morning!

Mornings are tricky for me. Sometimes I love it and sometimes I try to hide from it. But I do have a typical routine that happens every morning whether I'm trying to hide from it or am ready for it. Number one thing I do is use the John. It is good to relieve one's self first thing in the morning. Typically after that I sit in bed and contemplate what I will be doing that day. So here you go, my morning routine in picture form. Look how relaxed Charlie looks on that pillow!

Granny Eyre's Morning Ritual

My morning ritual involves opening my blinds, using the restroom, pouring a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice, then sitting down to read my Bible. This year I have been reading through the Bible chronologically. For the most part it is written chronologically, but lately I've been jumping around between Samuel, Chronicles, and Psalm. Today was Psalm 103. Here's the first verse.

Praise the Lord, my soul;
    all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

Morning Struggles

Most mornings I wake up to the gentle sounds of "Pie Jesu" being sung by the Celtic Women and ask, either in my head or aloud, "Does anyone else want to get out of bed and go to work for me?"

No one ever answers.

So I drag myself out of bed and get ready for work.


*Please note that work is not the problem. The problem lies in my bed; it's too warm and cozy. I don't want to leave my bed in the mornings.*