Five For Friday & A Big Reveal!

I'm back at my little ole blog and linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

First of all, and probably most importantly, HAVE YOU SEEN HOW CUTE MY BLOG IS?!?!?!? Megan from A Bird in Hand Designs / I Teach. What's your superpower? designed me the cutest blog design that ever happened in the world! She is SUPER creative, easy to work with, and not to mention, she does an amazing job!! If you're looking to revamp your blog or get a new layout, Megan's your girl! Click her button to check her out!

I swear I have a good reason for being so MIA here! I'm knee deep in summer camp, and it wipes. me. OUT! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this job! Love, love, love it like there's no tomorrow. I love the kids, I love the staff, I love everything we do there, but I come home and crash!

It's been super fun though, we have a lot of theme days at camp. Today was Olympic Day, complete with team games (my team came in dead last!). We had Halloween Day yesterday (I was Buzz Lightyear) and Pirate Day, among many others. We also have people come to perform for us - this week we had jugglers and a puppet show!

So for Halloween Day each counselor group chooses a theme. We chose Toy Story. Here's a mildly ridiculous pic of my final product of my Buzz costume. Cool for the hot summer day, easy to move around in, and a HIT with the munchkins! Not a great shot of my shirt, but it came out great!! I posted a pic of my wings on Instagram too! To infinity...and BEYOND!

Now that being said - I have 2 weeks left of camp! I'm sad it's going to end, but thrilled because I am SO behind on my To Do list!! School starts in a month...AHH!

Speaking of Back to School. My classroom is done being waxed! I got to sneak in the other morning before camp, just before they started waxing the hallway. As soon as the hallway is done, I can get in and start! Ahhh!

More B2S talk...I've, of course, been shopping. While I'm a Target girl through and through, Walmart has been giving me better B2S deals for the last couple of years! I got highlighters, pencils, mini memo books, stickers, and TONS more there this year! I've also hit Target (obviously), Big Lots, Michael's and Hobby Lobby!

See those mini memo books in the middle? I have a post coming later this week about what I do with those!! :o)

I'll leave you with a tasty one! Last weekend I did a lot of eating. I went to my town's annual lobster bake (YUM!) even though every one of my friends who went got the steak platter instead of the two DELICIOUS lobsters!! Ahhh!

 I went to the very first Connecticut Food Truck Festival! I LOVE a good food truck, and this was paradise! I tried tons of little bites, and loved every bit of it! Some of the lines were crazy though - we waited in line for an hour for this baked potato truck!! It was worth every. single. morsel though!

How was your week?!

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Monday Meet Up!

I'm linking up with The Teaching Tribune for their last Monday Meet Up!!

A bunch of randomness!! :o)

I LOVE the Harry Potter series (as those of you who follow me on Instagram know!) and if I could meet anyone fictional, it would definitely be someone from that series. Most likely Dumbledore! I'm in the middle of my traditional summer re-read of the series and I'm always reminded of how much I love it deep in my soul! My best friend and I are thinking about getting HP tattoos!! :o)

When people ask me how many siblings I have, I always used to joke that it would depend on the day of the week! I have NO full siblings. I'm the only child of both of my parents. BUT! I have my half brother and sister, my dad and stepmom's twins, who are 7 years younger than me. We are very involved in each other's lives and I'm going to go through QUITE an adjustment when they go away to college in August! I also have two step-brothers, who are my stepdad's two kids. One is  SMIDGEN older than me (about a month) and the other is three years older than me. So. Technically, I have none. Technically, I have 2. Technically, I have 4. Take your pick! :oP

My summer camp job started today. I'm surprised I'm not already sleeping on my computer. This job wears. me. out. but how I love it so! :o)

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Taking a Little Trip....

I'm taking a little trip over to My Carolina Classroom today, guest-blogging for Kristin!!

Head over there to check out my post on preventing the summer slide and for a FREEBIE!!

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Five For Friday!

Happy 4th Everyone!! I'm linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching today for her Five for Friday linky!

I talked about this last week in my Five for Friday but I just have to talk about it again...last Friday night I went to see Zac Brown Band with my girls at Fenway!! We had the. best. day. Ohmygosh! We went up to Newport for the day to go to the beach, then headed into Boston for the concert! I LOVE Zac Brown and I've been wanting to see them for a long time! They played ALL of the songs I wanted to hear, including cliche but my all-time-favorite Knee Deep. My favorite part of the concert had to be when he closed with Chicken Fried, and had to stop the song when he got to the "I thank God for my life, and for the stars and stripes"...he had a serviceman up on stage and the crowd went CRAZY with "USA!" chants and screaming! There are fewer places I've ever felt so patriotic! :o)

I love being able to see family in the summer! I'm the oldest of 14 cousins on my dad's side of the family. Most of my cousins are concentrated here in CT, but our California cousins came out to visit this past week! It was so good to see them and catch up....the baby cousins all graduated from HS this year and are headed off to college! Here are some of us this weekend at my grandmother's beach, where we used to spend A LOT of time together in the summer! I'm the oldest all the way to the left and my brother and sister are the youngest, all the way to the right! :o)

On Monday, my grade partner Sara and I headed up to Niantic, CT to the Book Barn. 96 books for $78!! Need I say more?! TONS of choice too, chapter, leveled readers, picture books...I was like a kid in a candy store! :o)

 

 Sara and is having a birthday giveaway, click on her picture to enter!!

I'm having a 20% off sale in my TpT store to celebrate the great USA!!

In a few minutes, I'm off to a Zumba class at my gym to preemptively strike against the food I'm going to eat this weekend! My (favorite) instructor is known to go all-out for theme days/holidays, and who can resist that?! I wish you could see my whole outfit, pinterest-inspired tank and all! :o)

Happy 4th!! God Bless America!!

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Celebrate!!

What better way to celebrate the 50 Nifty United States (from 13 original colonies) with a SALE?!

Head over to My TpT store to check it out!

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Currently - July

Linking up with Farley for her monthly currently today! A little late in the game, but hey, better late than never?

Listening - I've been on a Disney kick lately! They're especially fun to sing in the car!

Loving - Ocean Spray came out with a new cranberry lemonade and it's just about the tastiest thing I've ever had! Cut it with a little seltzer and it's delicious! We just turned the AC on, so I'm here on my laptop in the AC, with my cran-lemonade, and happy as a clam that I have nowhere to be until Monday!

Thinking - Loving my lazy summer days, but I better get cracking with all the work I brought home to do! I start my camp counselor job on Monday, so that limits my hours because I have 5 weeks of camp, then 2 weeks before we go back....and we ALL know what those 2 weeks are spent doing!!

Wanting - A sweet treat! I'm dying for an ice cream or ice pop!

Needing/4th Plans - Every 4th of July I head down to my beach with friends and family and enjoy the sun and some snacks and then I end up somewhere barbeque-ing, but Hurricane Arthur has different plans! We're not supposed to get directly hit but we are supposed to get some pretty heavy rain!!  :o(

Last, I'm part of Sara's birthday giveaway over at Frampton's Fundamentals! Head over there and check it out! Over $50 in prizes, including some from Melonheadz!!

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