Well it's that time again. Drum roll, please......My latest edition of 25 Random Thoughts is here!!!
1) I stumbled across a new saying that I love:
2) If you've never watched The Goldberg's, you're missing out. It's ridiculous. It's funny. It's sentimental. And it's a little scary how much I find myself identifying with Beverly Goldberg.
3) Pinterest has become both my recipe box and the teaching equivalent to the waffle-cone maker I've got in my pantry. It's full of recipe ideas that I use over and over (as well as ones I've never tried), and it's full of teaching ideas that seem super awesome and fun, but never end up getting used.
4) Family game time has moved up from Chutes & Ladders and Sorry to poker and Catch Phrase. When did the kids get so grown up?!
5) Although I am nowhere near ready for Christmas, and Thanksgiving is becoming my favorite holiday, I am chomping at the bit to get my Christmas decorations up!
6) I think I might actually proudly let my nerd flag fly, if I had this shirt:
7) Hannah is SO much prettier than I was at her age. But then, she hasn't really been hit by puberty much yet. But then, she's so much prettier than I was even before puberty. I was going to post a side-by-side of her 7th grade volleyball picture and mine, but when I actually got my photo album out and looked it was SO much worse than I remembered! NO ONE needs to see that, so please just take my word for it.
8) Jason Bateman is a very underrated, or at least under-awarded comedic actor. His dry, sarcastic, impeccably timed delivery is stellar! If you haven't seen This is Where I Leave You, you really should. It is one of those movies that gets better every time you watch it.
9) 25 may not seem like a lot, but the moment you do one of these "25 Random Thoughts" things you realize just how enormous it really is.
10) How great was that Justin Timberlake/Chris Stapleton performance at the CMA's the other night?! Just
click here to watch it in all it's glory!
11) 2 equally awesome, yet very different things: singing Don't Stop Believin', No Rain, and Taylor swift songs with Hannah and singing Bohemian Rhapsody, Enter Sandman, and AC/DC songs with Mason.
12) Both Hannah and Mason have had awesome sports seasons this fall. Hannah's volleyball teams were undefeated, both at school and with the rec league. Her softball team isn't undefeated, but they're still pretty great! And Mason's football team is undefeated so far this season...only 1 game away from the championship!
13) Kevin has worked so hard as a board member for the football league. He's been so busy, but I think deep down he's enjoyed it. Besides...as treasurer, he's kind of a big deal. :)
14) I let pure awesomeness overcome my maternal instincts this Halloween. Mason's Nacho Libre costume stole the show...even though it meant I had to let my son run around in nothing but tights and underwear all night.
15) I sent out an email to all of my parents that made me sound super ghetto. In the middle of this well thought-out paragraph explaining the importance of and purpose of the learning portfolios that were coming home I said, "
We want these folders to be a tool that will help your children communicate where they is in their learning journey." Where they IS. SHEESH! It was all I could do not to immediately send out an apology email afterwards.
16) This made me chuckle:
17) It also reminded me of when Mason dressed as a pirate for Halloween when he was 2, and he would say "argh matey" like, "Argh Tee-Tee". :)
18) This came up on my Facebook newsfeed the other day. If you're a FRIENDS fan, you've got to check it out. It's greatness. Click Here
19) Whenever Hannah is sleeping over at a friends house, she will text me at night. It starts with a simple, "Hey mommy" and devolves into a silly, sweet back and forth that I just love. My heart will break when she stops doing that.
20) My second favorite Nicholas Sparks book, The Choice, is being made into a movie. I hope they do it justice, and not what they did to Last Song. Not that many of the movies have been fantastic, but that one was especially bad.
21) I am in desperate need of a new family portrait. Kevin's porn-stache just isn't cutting it anymore: (But just look at my sweet babies!! If you can...I know it's small...and blurry)
22) A month or so ago, I had my first allergic reaction. I have pictures of my eye, but I'll spare you. Don't know what caused it, but trust me when I say it looked ROUGH.
23) Hannah and Mason are crazy jealous over the amount of baby pictures I have of their cousins. Apparently, I have more of my nieces and nephews as babies than I do of them. I try to explain to them that cell-phone cameras weren't the way they are now when they were babies, and that we didn't usually carry our actual cameras around with us, but they're not hearing it.
24) I can't believe that next year, both of my kids will be in middle school. What craziness is this?! I can't be that old, can I??
25) After more than year, I have broken my unintentional blog silence. Hopefully, it won't be that long until the next one (I did start and stop several other posts before settling on this one, so here's hoping). So until next time, I leave you with another awesome quote:
