What's in Your Cart? Linky Party!

I'm linking up with Jenna at Speech Room News to share what's in my Teacher's Pay Teachers cart for the upcoming Back to School Sale!!

Since it's still summer, you can check out my Summer Social Skills Packet! I made this at the end of the school year and used it with my language kiddos a LOT in our last few sessions! They really seemed to like the situations, and loved acting out good and bad ways to handle each situation! You could totally still use this at the beginning of the year! :)

Now, here are all the things on my wish list! AH! I'm going to need a lot of $$ to stock up....yikes! :)

This packet looks soooooo amazing!! Nicole Allison's Ultimate Data Collection Binder for Common Core Standards. YES. PLEASE. !!!!

I also really like Nicole Allison's My First Week in Speech packet! Adorable! I can totally see myself using this with my new 3rd graders that I haven't met yet, and all of my returning 4th and 5th graders, too!

I of course need my pal Jenn's new product My Daily Routines! I think this will be really helpful for some of my friends!

Jenna has this AMAZING looking product...Give a Mouse Bundle! I NEED THIS!!!!!! I love these books and so do my students!!!

My older kids LOVE UNO. LOVE it! They could play it every day if I let them! Sublime Speech has this awesome looking activity that I know they would love! Word Level Artic Uno

That's it for now! I'm sure I will be adding many more things to my cart before the big sale on Monday!!! Thanks for stopping by! :)

xoxo, Sara

2 years later....

Wow. I haven't posted on here in two years. We were all supposed to be so good and update these things :) haha

Not a lot has changed in my life. Back on the exercise/diet wagon, which is going well so far. The YMCA is doing a "biggest loser challenge" that some of us from work signed up for. It's so nice to do these things with friends! Still working in Kirksville at the schools and at church. Same apartment. Same friends. Same ole same ole.

Last year was really rough. REALLY rough. Thankfully, everything is okay now, but, it all gave me what I'm sure is major anxiety, and I am a constant mess. Happy, but a mess.

I've been contemplating doing something different in the blog world and writing about some speech-related things. I've been so inspired by some of my speech-blog friends lately!  But I'm sure that 1-no one would read it, 2-don't know if I have time for it,  3-don't know what what I would talk about/make/do for it, and 4-I don't know a lot about clip art/web design/etc. haha. Plus, I kind of like just reading their ideas and learning from them...I don't think I have enough ideas to contribute to others! haha So. It's just thoughts in my head :)

That's all for now :)

Well...

...so much for all of us getting blogs and updating them all the time, eh friends? :) haha

Life is moving along quite nicely. I had a great break at home for Christmas with my family and friends. I love being able to go home and catch up with them without missing a beat, no matter how long it has been since we have last seen/talked. It's a good feeling. I also turned 25 a few weeks ago. 25. What a weird feeling. When I was little I thought 25 was ancient. I thought I would have "done" so many more things by now. But, looking back over the past few years, I'm really proud of what I have accomplished. I'm ready for more though. :)

One of my New Year's resolutions is the infamous "lose weight". I lost about 25 lbs last year simply by walking twice a day and watching what I ate. Then when school started back up this fall, I kind of got lazy, made excuses, etc. and fell off the wagon a bit. However, since the new year began, I have started up a kind of crazy diet with friends from school, and am doing Zumba and Cardio Kickboxing at the Y with friends 4 nights a week, which I'm LOVING! I feel so good and energized when we are finished, and I look forward to the next night's workout! I am already seeing a huge difference, and I feel great! :) It's also a lot more fun, and helpful, to be doing these things with friends/a support system. I'm very thankful!

My other resolutions this year are to say "no" more often, take a few risks, and just let myself have some fun! A week ago, 3 friends and I booked a spring break trip to Ft. Lauderdale kind of randomly, and I could not be more excited! I've never really done "spring break", other than choir trips in high school and a mission trip in college, so I'm really looking forward to this. Plus it's more motivation to keep up the workouts! ;) I cannot wait to spend the week in warm, sunny Florida relaxing on the beach!!!! I'm also going to go on a mission trip this summer with the youth from our church to Colorado, which I am also very excited about. It will be a great experience.

This past week 4 friends and I went to the Rascal Flatts/Sara Evans/Hunter Hayes concert in Columbia. It was a BLAST! We had a great time; what a phenomenal concert!!

So there's my little life update. Other than working on myself, I'm working at school, Truman, and church still, along with babysitting, hanging out with friends, making plans to see other friends, and playing with my dog :) Life is pretty great. I'm a lucky girl.

Thankful

I'm a really lucky lady and I don't think I remind myself of that enough.

Tonight I'm thankful for friends to vent to about anything and everything when I'm having a stressful day/week. and I'm thankful that I was reminded how lucky I am today. One of the 5th grade teachers son was diagnosed with cancer today. He is 4 years old. FOUR. He fell a few weeks ago off their trampoline, then complained of his back *kidney* hurting. He already spent a week in the Columbia hospital, then went home, spiked a terrible fever again, was in our hospital for a few days, went back to Children's hospital in Columbia yesterday, had surgery to remove his kidney today, and it came back cancerous. Thank goodness he fell of that trampoline and they were able to catch this! Otherwise, they may have never known! It's just so crazy to think about how little things like that happen. I hate hearing about cancer affecting anyone, but a four year old???? It's just not fair. It really made me put things into perspective today and to stop thinking about myself and what I consider these huge issues/stresses right now aside and just pray that God bring peace and comfort to this family and help him to heal quickly!!

I know, I know, I have yet to post a true post, friends. I read all of yours faithfully and they give me so much joy, inspiration, and things to think about. My life has been so crazy lately and I know this will be a good place to vent and write it all down. Just give me time.

Much love!