My teenager is voluntarily cleaning the kitchen after dinner without being asked. Either I’ve done a great job parenting, or she did something I don’t want to know about and she’s trying to get on my good side 😂😂

How is tomorrow Monday already? I just finished my weekend chores!

A great gift from a great friend today. She gets me 😂 (details about how to get socks in alt text)

Annual appetizers for dinner NYE tradition at home with the kids. My vegetarian kid even ate some shrimp for protein… who would’ve predicted that to close out 2025?

Sprayed my oven after all the greasy Thanksgiving and Christmas cooking. I hope I still feel like scrubbing it out in the morning or I won’t be cooking any time soon.

Christmas tradition at our house is giant Dutch oven cinnamon roll. Extra large this year!

Update: new furnace just in time for the outdoor temp/heatwave of 40 degrees 😂. Is it still a Christmas present if it’s *technically* under the tree aka in basement under where tree is located? Asking for other grown ups who won’t have wrapped presents because they got a furnace instead…

My furnace decided a week with a high daily temperature of 17 and “feels like” of 7 is a great time to quit working-thank goodness for gas fireplaces, managing to stay at 62 on the main level but it’ll get real chilly tonight when we turn it off for bed. Repair (or replace 🫣) scheduled tomorrow.

My kid made his television debut this morning on a local PBS production. It was a perfect experience for my always curious, fact loving boy. #WKAR #publictelevision #curiouscrew

Reasons Kindergarteners are funny: one happily rushed up to me to tell me I looked like a dragonfruit fruit today.

My husband just tried to relate to our teens using the “six seven” meme and he messed it up saying “six nine” instead and now our teens are dying 😂😂

So, I apparently can no longer be trusted with a chisel 😂

Thank you to whomever is setting off commercial grade fireworks in the parking lot behind my house when it’s 1. 95 degrees, 2. No rain for days 3. Outside city ordinance stating fireworks can only be three days prior to or after a Federal holiday. My terrified dog just 💩 on the floor. 😡

It’s officially been 20 years of marriage- 3 kids, 2 dogs and 1 happy life.

It’s that time of year where teaching feels like working double shifts because you teach all day then do paperwork, report cards and IEPs all night while helping your own children do math with rational numbers, pie, co-signs and “shift” (whatever that is) When is it time for wine?🍷

This is not good. I will continue to advocate for myself, my family and my students for whom even small learning disruptions like being sick and missing school set them back.

Please tell me we can find the DNA clownfish use to do this so I too can shrink my body to a smaller stature for the heat* of summer and need less food. 😂 *by heat I mean fit into shorts and a bathing suit after gaining my annual winter hibernation weight

Picking Hawai’i for the vacation destination for my 20th anniversary was well worth the expense. Amazing trip! Highly recommend the Guide Along app for driving tours of the island- well worth the price as we found many hidden treasures we wouldn’t have found otherwise.

Teacher appreciation week…not going to lie, feeling pretty down. I don’t want a keychain for “being a key player” or my board members out with “vote no” signs against our bond. I would feel appreciated if I could use my hard earned PTO that is part of my benefit package, but no, that was denied.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Got a long overdue haircut today- cut 4”, added layers and thinned it. Feels springy!

Parents please know… Autism is not a disease. Your child belongs. Your child is not unworthy. RFK is not correct. Autism is complex, under study via medical, social and educational lenses. Your children make our classrooms and world better places.

Feeling springy- picked up some flowers and made a little lemon bread for dessert later.

🔥BREAKING: A federal court ruled in favor of AFSCME case to block DOGE's access to Social Security Administration. Elon Musk and DOGE were ruled a grave danger to Social Security & must delete private data & BLOCKED them from further sharing, accessing or disclosing OUR Social Security information.

Thank you to @firstbook.bsky.social and @pizza-hut.bsky.social for the $500 award for books for my classroom. The books have arrived and the students are thrilled! Most are pictured here for my classroom minus a few that are getting catalogued for our leveled book room.

Yes! Schools should have certified librarians or teachers with library/media degrees.

I get on streaks of eating the same thing every day for lunch. Currently- two hard boiled eggs with cottage cheese, a diced fresh tomato and basil with a smidge of balsamic glaze. It keeps me full and is fast to make. No picture because I inhaled it at work while typing IEP paperwork.

I’m pretty sure my kids ask for bananas and let them go brown on purpose to get banana bread.

Sobbing watching the news on the California wild fires. Stay safe everyone. 💔

The algorithms on here think I have a “type”- I keep getting followed by accounts that have pictures of men aged 50+ with grey and beards that may or may not be bots. Just to be clear- I’m married, to a man, that just happens to be 50+ with lots of grey and occasionally a beard 😂

Me: it feels great to tidy the house and have freshly vacuumed/mopped floors after all the company Penny(my dog): here, let me vomit all over that for you

Oh goodie- ‘elves’ from the wellness team are delivering cookies today 🙄 teacher mental health isn’t about 🍪 -we want relevant PD and enough time and resources to do the hard work.

My neighbor’s wandering cat got stuck inside my garage today. Not sure how long it was there. Glad it was warm-ish during the winter weather but holy heck did my child freak out when it ran across her foot. I just hope the cat found the mouse that likes my recycle bin while it was here. 🤞🏻

I had no idea these small notebooks actually exist. Please don’t tell me husband. I’ve been making him cut regular notebooks in half on the table saw every August for the last 23 years of my teaching career. 🤫

Help rebuild classroom libraries destroyed by Hurricane Helene! Literacy experts Kylene Beers & @lesterlaminack.bsky.social personally curated a collection of books, organized by classroom and grade. Browse and select books you want to gift here: www.bookelicious.com/blog/book-by... #edusky #kidlit

My students do something daily to make me smile. Today it was the literal interpretation of the word ‘family’ during math.

Compared to the list of Traitor Tot's pardons, hunter Biden is an absolute angel. See for yourself: rb.gy/lfkzsb

So true! And I’d add the teacher belief that all pencils are inferior to Ticonderoga pencils, hands down.