2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year – there is no other way to describe it. Our routines were turned upside down, schools closed, businesses went out of business, cities burned in protest, and above all, the pandemic raged across the planet. I …
Author’s Note: I wrote this in the spring of 2020, but almost every word applies to 2021 as well. Read on! This has been the strangest school year of probably any of our lives. In late winter, everything turned upside down. Quarantine kicked in as …
I love to bake and most of the time it ends well. Meaning that I eat a lot of sugar and deliciousness. But sometimes, it doesn’t go so well. One year, my husband asked for a pecan pie for Thanksgiving. I thought I had it …
My first year of teaching was exhausting. Literally and figuratively. There were multiple times when I took a nap Friday afternoon and woke up the next morning. But I survived my first year and was proud of what I had done. Yet, when I started …