I've rounded up a few of my favorite things for Back to School for all of you! All of the physical items you see in this post are from Oriental Trading, which is awesome because they come in large sets/packs so they are basically already ready to be handed out to the whole class! To start off the school year, I love to have a little something on the students' desks for "meet the teacher" day. You already spend so much on your classroom, so it is always hard to decide what to have for them as a gift. I used to do little snack bags, but it was a lot of prep making the snack mixes and ended up c ..read more

Springtime is the BEST time! Except for one thing...I am new to this thing I used to always here people talking about...I think they call them "allergies" and they're awful! I never used to have them, and then after living in Alabama and South Carolina for a total of 8 years, I developed some sort of outdoor allergy in Florida! The state I grew up in now gives me the sneezies for about two whole months! Other than that one, minor issue we won't discuss anymore...I love spring! My husband and I are spring birthdays, and so is my two year old daughter! Our son, due in September, will be the "odd ..read more

A super easy way to make a bulletin board cute AND meaningful is to add a little hashtag message in the corner! It can be at the top or bottom of a bulletin board, in a doorway, etc! Anywhere your kids may look, where you otherwise wouldn't normally have a decoration. Use your key classroom phrases or vocabulary around your room to keep your messages meaningful! But also...HOW CUTE?! You can totally do this on your own to make it match your room; however, if you'd like the one pictured above, I have linked it below! You can either print out ready-made circles OR save paper by typing directly ..read more

I have never been more serious about a statement than the title of this blog post.  Nothing is Better than Mountain Air I slept better, felt better, ate better...everything!  I should explain...the eating better part is mostly because my mom is amazing and cooked perfect meals for all of us while we were there.The sleeping part is definitely because Flynn slept SO well there, in the closet of our bedroom, so Will and I had some of the best sleeps ever! We slept in until almost TEN every single day! What?!?! Each year my family spends a week together in the mountains, at my parents' summer hom ..read more