A Work In Progress.

My classroom will forever be a work in progress. "Work in progress"...that is such a funny phrase...but it's the truth! I feel like even though I had last week to set up my classroom how I want it, I am constantly doing something to "fix it up" and I highly doubt that I will stop any time soon. For the most part...I really love my classroom. I was finally able to go through everything and put things where I want it to go and throw things away that I didn't want. It was hard starting at a new school when the school year had already started and then also switching classrooms in the middle of the school year. But I am glad I am where I am.  I can't think of anything that would make me leave my present job right now. I love my job. I love my boss. I love everything about my job.

I finally was able to take a few pictures of my [work-in-progress] classroom. I had to take some to show my family and I thought that I would use the same pictures on here...but pick and choose. :)

Before I share the pictures, I would like to say that even though my room is NOT what I had planned it out to be...I absolutely love it. I love how it turned out. Being flexible about things you can not change is part of being a teacher...and so with that being said, I present to you the first pictures of my classroom of 2015. :) (Wow! Dramatic a bit, are we?! :))

This the HUGE welcome sign that greets you as you walk into my room. My brother-in-law (AWESOME brother-in-law) just so happen to walk into my classroom since he was in the area and he was able to help me put up this sign...I was lugging a ladder around with me...he only had to stand on his tip-toes and reach and was able to do this is less then 2 minutes! *laughs* Glad he was around to help! But this is right above my parent board. I never had a parent board in my room when I came into this classroom...I made a small one when I started, but I knew that when I was able to redo my classroom,  I wanted to make a proper parent board...and I did.

One the opposite side of my Parent Board are my keikis' cubbies. On top of the cubbies, the parent sign in/out board is there...on the side of the cubbies is this....

 ...a bunch of cute owls with my kids names are it. They are velcro'ed on so the kids can check-in themselves! They find their name and then they place them...

 ...here! I love this Owl Check-In! It teaches the kids to recognize their name and to make choices since they can choose which house they want to be in for the day. I'm still in the process of getting my keikis in a habit of doing this when they come in. And I keep telling them they can't move any owls for the house that they want! *laughs*

The color's of my bulletin boards are orange, purple, and green. I originally wanted blue and green, but we ran out of blue paper and so I made do. :) The boarders that I have are Chevron strips and Polka Dots. The Parent Board is glitter green though and my Owl Check-In house is different...but for the most part, it's Chevron Strips and Polka Dots.

 This year we were able to buy new furniture for our classroom. I think this was the first time that we were ever able to do that. We are doing like a whole school make-over! Which is good...a lot of our stuff was donated or we made them ourselves....so being able to buy furniture and toys that we wanted was good.

One of the things that I got for my classroom were these cubes.
 

 I put them in my home/dramatic center. I love them because each cube could be use in three different ways. So, they can either be a table or a chair (of two different sizes). The kids love them and they are perfect for my lil 2-3 year olds!

I also go this climbing structure.

 I love it! The kids love it! And I'm really glad that I got it! It's in the center of my room laid on a round 9 foot carpet. I know that at my age kids, they love to climb, so I was forever telling them NOT to climb on this, or on that...and so I decided to get them a climbing structure to climb on...and the do! So far they have followed all my rules and they LOVE it!

And I HAD to get this Reading Nook as my library. I love reading and I wanted to get this to create a more welcoming place to come and explore books. It really is comfortable in there! That is Mr. Chubs, Dori, and Mr. Stripes in there right now. :)

 The past 3 weeks have been really tough...and I am so glad that this first week is over...now that my keikis are getting used to me, they aren't crying as much. So that means we can have more fun now doing all the different crafts and activities. :) I love this sign that my sister made (since her daughter started preschool last Tuesday!)...she allowed me to leave it in my class for other children to take a picture with. :)

Well, hopefully, I'll remember to keep you updated with the improvements that I have in my classroom. I am currently working a few projects that I'm excited to share...but for now...let the weekend begin! :)

First days of Preschool.

(Sorry, it's been a long while since I've updated. And I have a lot to update on...but later on, I'll do a quick catch up...but that time is not now. :))

To say that these past few weeks have been crazy is an understatement for sure. I do not even know where time went! I was planning all these post to put up: my 30th birthday, my brother's wedding, the redoing of my preschool classroom, Vacation Bible School, summer school, awesome weddings that we did...just a lot of things...and then I swear I blinked my eyes and it was WAY past those times already and I didn't even post up on those events! Oh mandope! Oh well, for my sake and looking back at memories on this blog, I'll post up a quick overview of what happen in the last 3 months but for now. Wow. First two days of preschool.

It's like I have "two" first day's of the first day of preschool. I only say this because my Monday, Wednesday, and Friday class is different from my Tuesday and Thursday class. Save from one child who comes every day, I have different children those different times. So yesterday, it was officially my first day of 2015-2016 school year...but so was today in a different way. Different kids, you know.

I love the 2 year olds; I love teaching them. I have worked with all (preschool) ages...but I have found that I like the 2 year olds the best. I prefer them. I think the only drawback, for me, with this age is the first two weeks of school. We do not have an infant care in our school...so my class is the youngest class in my school. Meaning to say, I will always have new children/parents each year. I won't have any repeats from the year before because they will be already 3...so every year I have to start all over again. Which I really don't mind. I love meeting my new class. I love getting to know and watching these precious kids develop their five selves...what I don't like is the crying. For days. And days. And days.

Now, I am NOT complaining, because I know that it comes with the territory. It is always my goal to help and encourage the children to feel comfortable around me, my classroom, and the school schedule as soon as possible. And not only the children, but the parents. (Oh mandope, I can write a lot about the different parents that I have encountered, but that is at a different time...if ever.) But the crying...the loud, wailing, non-stop, crying comes with the snot. Lots and lots of snot. Ew.

I have 8 children at one time in my class. (We like to keep the ratio small.) And lucky for me, at the VERY last minute we were able to get an aid for my class. Which is a VERY big help! Potty training alone with that many children can be a nightmare. Not to say that I didn't do it before on my own...but it's a lot easier when I have another person there to help. (I love my aid, by the way...NOTHING like past aids in different school at all!) For both days, they all started great...then mommy left and daddy had to go to work. Then the floodgates opened and the choir of banshees started. And the frustrating part? It only takes ONE child to start EVERYONE going.

The majority of my parents told me that they know that their child will cry because they have never been without mommy or daddy; that they didn't really KNOW that they were going to start preschool and that mommy and daddy were going to LEAVE THEM. (Wait, what?!?) Or that, they are "my" baby and so s/he's never been without "me"...this is the first time ever. (Really?!) Here's my thought, you KNEW your child was going to start preschool so why didn't you PREP them!? Talk about what was going happening? Start doing errands while leaving your child at home with a baby sitter. Do SOMETHING  to let them know that a big change is going to happen. I can't say, personally, I know what it's like to leave a child (since I am not a parents YET!)...but I can say, personally, I've seen children heartbroken because they are cold turkey left with complete strangers not knowing if mommy and/or daddy is going to come back. Because I can tell them that mommy and daddy will be coming back until I am blue in the face...but they don't know me and so therefore, they do not trust anything that comes out of my mouth.

That beings said...

it was a very challenging first two days. I will say that the majority of my children cried and wailed and threw temper tantrums because they wanted mommy and daddy. However, I was prepared for this. I have to honestly say that I have NEVER had this many children have this much anxiety on the first day of school...but there is a first everything. And you know what, because I survived I know that it will only get better.

Even now...by the time the school day was over there were no more criers...as long as I didn't leave the room or stop talking. That was the thing...I had to be constantly talking or singing to them. So as long as they could see me and hear me they ended up being okay. So it was all dancing on the line for me the past two days. But that's okay...because that tells me that they are starting to trust me and that by the time two weeks is over with them getting a feel of the new place, of me, of their new classmates....the fun will definitely start! Right now, it's just being there for my keikis and earning their trust.

Not all of the cried...there was 2 (ishy 3) who did not cry. I am so thankful to them for doing their own thing and not let the loud, overwhelming cry of the others deter them from having fun. Because they did have fun. Those that didn't cry really bonded well together. I love watching new friendships start. It's funny...because without even realizing it, they are already sharing because they don't want to step on toes just yet...I know in the new few days, that's going to fly out the window and they are going to exercise  their favorite words of "mine" and "no"...but for now, not only did they try to test my boundries...they were testing each others. It's fun to watch. :)

On a side, but not so side note...guess who started preschool today?!?

My little DollGirl! I am so proud of her. She did not cry. :) But then again, she has an awesome Aunty...er...I mean, awesome PARENTS...:) who prepared her for today and she was excited. SUPER excited. And I'm super excited she started at my school...in my class...with me.

Long Weekends.

I love long weekends. They give you time to recharge from everyday life stress. Well, let me rephrase that. I love long weekends that hold no obligations, appointments, and/or stress! I had a VERY relaxing day spending time with my mom and dad [who came home mid-morning from his Men's Retreat] and my niece and nephew.

I am trying to spend as much time with my parents as I can...the day that they leave is coming closer and closer and my heart is getting heavier and heavier...I'm not the happiest person that they are leaving, but I'm not not going to selfish and ask them to stay for me. If God is calling them, who am I to ask them to stay.

I didn't take much pictures of today...but my niece did! As I was going through my phone deleting the pictures that she took that make no sense [a million of the floor, of the ceiling fan, her foot?!?], I saw one that was pretty good!

Whenever DollGirl comes over to my place, I let her pick the hat that I'll wear for the day whether or not it matches with my outfit. *laughs* She picked this hat for me yesterday. It's a good hat that matches with most of my outfits. :) But DollGirl had given my that flower to put in my hair, but I had set it down by my hat because she gave me a few flowers for my hair, and that one just didn't finished...I guess sometime today she took a picture of it...and even though it is a random picture...it's a pretty good picture!

I wonder what she will be when she grows up. She LOVES being outdoors. If she can, she would stay outside forever. She loves running. For no apparent reason, but just to run. She loves to plant every seed that she sees. She enjoys climbing trees, and swimming in the ocean. Shoots! This 2-year old babygirl swims out with me in the ocean and floats. And she has no fear when she does flips of the SUP board! That girl! Yep, that girl has my heart. :)

But she loves to take pictures! And she takes amazing pictures at that too! Yes, there are times where I think she doesn't realize that her finger is on the button to take pictures, because there are random pictures...that I have no idea what they are of! But then you get to a set of picture that you can tell were thought out. Hm...maybe she'll do something with pictures...ooohh! Maybe a National Geographic photographer! That would be amazeballs! :)

Well, I need to go to sleep now because we have decided to Hike the Aiea Loop for Memorial Day tomorrow...and I am NOT a hiker so I need all the energy I can muster up! *laughs*

Lazy, relaxing day!

I honestly was NOT in the mood to go to church today, but my niece had asked me yesterday, so very kindly, mind you, if I could go to church with her. So, of course, I can't say no to my lil' DollGirl! It was good though. My parents usually go to the Fil-Am church, however there is a Men's Retreat in Waianae and so my dad went to that for the weekend. So, my mom ended up going to church with my sister, and I caught a ride with Amanda to go to church and we all met up in Kailua SDA Church. It was good to go to be in church again with my mom.

I found out a few days ago that my parents bit the bullet and bought a one-way ticket to the Philippines on August 18. Whenever I think about it I just want to cry all over again. I hate knowing that the date is coming closer and closer to when I have to be without my parents again. Here I am, an almost 30 year old woman crying for her mommy and daddy...but this time around, my heart isn't breaking for myself. My heart aches for my niece and nephew. DollGirl is my dad's personal shadow. Yeah, I can't write about it right now... I can feel myself tearing up. Change subject!

Well, after church, I ended up coming over to town to be here and spend time with my mom and my niece. I ADORE spending time with my niece...and I also equally adore spending time with my lil nephew! I can't believe that he is almost 4 months old! In four days he will be 4 months old...my lil KaiBoy is growing SO fast!

He is such a happy baby! And he has the cutest laughing eyes ever! And he laughs...really laughs out loud when you tickle him! It's the cutest thing ever! These are a few pictures that I can't take credit for. My lil DollGirl took them! She loves taking pictures, that one! :)

I love how DollGirl is super protective of KaiBoy. She loves to cuddle with him and tell him stories and you should hear her when she hears him crying..."No need cry, baby, I'm here. Ate is here!" It is SO heart warming!

My brother and Amanda are here right now to. Right now, Neal, Jeremy, and Amanda are doing a 1000 piece puzzle. That is their thing...they love doing puzzles and they do them like its nothing. I can't sit still that long. This puzzle I gave to Amanda for Christmas...I gave Neal a 3000 piece puzzle...they gave up on that one in a few days! *laughs*

I was trying to wait for them to be tired of the puzzle, but it doesn't look like they are going to be finished anytime soon, so I will say goodnight and just get ready for bed now. :)

Happy Birthday, Kuya Neal!

Today is my amazing brother-in-law's birthday! On Wednesday, I had talked to Amanda about what we were going to do for him...and this is what we decided. Since him and my sister are always SO giving with their time and they are always thinking of others that they sometimes forget to spoil themselves, we had decided to give them time. Meaning to say, since Amanda had taken today and yesterday off, she was going to go to their house and watch the kids for them to be able to get away for a few hours. Since today I had only a half day since we had our preschool graduation, I told her that I would go with her. So, that is what we did. We gave them time.

My morning started out very good, thank you very much!

I took my sister's advise and cut two thick slices of her amazing Honey Oat Wheat bread and toasted it. I like my toast crunchy, but not burnt. So that's what I did, then I smeared on a good amount of butter, but not too much and wow! That totally made my day all happy! I ended up cutting two more thick slices and toasting and buttering them and bringing them to school to share some with Mrs. A. She is the teacher that I join with in the morning to watch the early morning kids. :)

Mrs. A had already had breakfast so she ate one [she was SO happy to have ordered one cinnamon bread loaf for her family after tasting this one!] and we shared the other one with two other children that were there and wanted a taste of the wonderful smelling bread. :)

It was pretty chaotic short day at school. I am so proud of our graduates! They are on their way up to kindergarten...and this is one of the reason I LOVE LOVE my job! In these early stages of life, the children learn SO much and SO fast! And they are all smart cookies that I know will go far in life!

After school, I went home. I have a friend that we send a least a picture a day to. We miss each other so much...and I know that she is lonely at the moment since her husband went abroad for a month for school. And so, I decided to wear a flower in my hair for her...so I sent her the picture of the flower I wore...the background you can see the wonderful front yard that I am blessed to have. :)

Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I am so blessed to have this place that I'm living at. It's a beautiful place and my landlady is amazing wonderful as well! She is so sweet and I know that I am safe here. :)

Since it was my brother-in-laws birthday, I got him a birthday balloon to go with the present that I got him.

It's always fun to have balloons for your birthday, at least I think that it is. :) So, I had driven over to Amanda's house and we went together to my sister's house so that she can take her husband out for his birthday. They ended up seeing the new Avenger's movie. I wanted to see it...so hopefully I'll be able to go and see it, if not, hopefully it gets on Netflix so I can watch it when it comes out! :)

But before Amanda and I got to the house we stopped at our favorite Boba tea place.

Taste Tea is so yummy! My favorite order is: Winter Melon with Lemonade, 70% sweetened, Less Ice, and Big Boba! It's so yummy! My sister and Amanda usually get the same. Milk Tea...but I like my Winter Melon. :)

When we got to my sister's house, they had just left and my parents just waiting for Amanda and I so that they can leave to go meet their friends. I knew that my sister was already going to be gone...but I'm bummed that we missed them by just a few minutes, so we just put her Iced Tea in the refrigerator and Amanda and I enjoyed our tea while we were waiting for my lil' DollGirl (2 years old) to wake up from her afternoon nap. Lil' KaiBoy (3 months old) was also sleeping...but he woke up when we got there so we got to play with his little cuteness for a bit before sister woke up and demanded our attention to play with her.

Amanada stayed with KaiBoy in the house while I went outside to play with DollGirl.

She loves cars...just like her daddy! :) While I was taking her picture, she told me that she wanted to take pictures to...so I let her take a picture...and I had a million pictures of the garden that her and her grandpa (my daddy) had made for her mom.

She loves to garden! She is going to have a green thumb just like her grandpa! I love watching them together! My dad is an out-doorsy person...and so is DollGirl...she loves going outside! She loves running...for what seems like NO REASON...but she LOVES LOVES to be outside!

Well, I am getting tired now, but before I end this post, I wanted to post up some of the pictures that I got from the wedding that we did today! My brother-in-law was able to go with Passion Roots to help put up those ridiculously heavy chandeliers! And wow! I so admire and him and Amber (my co-worker)...they had to do some quick thinking with how to put them up!

My other co-worker and friend, Ivy, sent me these pictures earlier today...and I couldn't be more proud of my Passion Roots team! They look amazing! Ivy said that they had a lot of people come up to them to compliment the arrangements and The Modern were amazed by them as well! Yay for Passion Roots! We rock! I love working with them and being part of the team. :)

"Happy birthday, Kuya Neal! I hope you had an amazing day! I love you!"

Unexpected Happenings.

Today was pretty unexpected, to say the least! Not a bad thing...sometimes it's good to be spontaneous and just go with the flow. I use to be like that. When I look back in my life, I realized that I was pretty spontaneous...and I need to learn how to do that again. Today was one of those days. Although, it wasn't SUPER spontaneous, it was unexpected.

I just got home. Well, I take that back. I just showered and so like about 30 minutes I just got home. I had my evening all planned out when I got a text that gave me a decision whether or not I wanted to continue my evening plans to deviate a little from what I had wanted to do. I decided to change plans. Let me [sort of] start from the beginning.

So, starting last week I have been having MAJOR car problems. Like my-car-stopping-and shutting-off-randomly kind of car problems. Because that was the case, I had asked my sister to lessen my work load at Passion Roots to a minimum unless I can get a ride out there. My point...if I did take a bus out there after my preschool work, it would talk a little bit more than 2 hours to get there because of all the traffic. If they really needed me, I would figure out ways to get there...tonight, I wasn't even on schedule, so I wasn't worried.

I do drive my car though, with a lot of prayer. I have made it a habit to text my sister whenever I drive with a simple, "I'm about to drive! Please pray!" I like that I can do that...coz I know that she will send up prayers for me. I usually just drive from my preschool job to home or to the store...as long as it stays in Kailua...I'm usually okay...because I know that if my car does stop and I can't get it to start again, I can always just walk home if I can't get a hold of anyone at the moment.

When I got home, my sister calls me and asks me if I could meet her at the shopping center in Enchanted Lakes [still part of Kailua]. She has started to slowly start her baking business. And I couldn't be more proud of her! She calls her kitchen "The Lab" because she is just finalizing her different recipes and so she sells her baked goods at a discounted price. I know she will do GREAT in this...her goodies are known all over. :) So I had gotten orders for her from my preschool co-workers and so I went and picked up our orders.

Oh my goodness, the bread smelled AMAZING! As always. Since I was at the shopping center anyways, I decided to go grocery shopping, so I did. And picked up some groceries while I was at it.

I really like how my sister's bread, she makes them as healthy as she can, yet they stay really moist and so onolicious! So wish this Honey Oat Wheat bread, you can order it in several ways. You can get it just as a loaf OR in 12 "Largeish Dinner Rolls" OR 18 Smeedium Dinner Rolls." My favorite is if you get in a "Big Ol' Loaf" you can add a "cinnamony swirl" and oh my! That is my favorite! It is SO yummy!

My sister's extra tag for this special swirl of hers just cracks me up! She is so ON POINT!

This Rosemary Garlic bread though. Oh mandope! What can I say that doesn't sound like I'm making something up?! I don't even know...! Well, lets just say that I was planning on having lettuce wraps this evening...BUT I took one smell of this bread and I knew that I wanted it. So, I ended up cutting two slices from the middle of it...

...because I wanted two of the longer pieces of it...and then I toasted the two pieces in my little toaster oven.

And let me tell you! The smell of this bread while it was toasting was unbelievable! It smelled SO amazing! When it was done, I made myself a sandwich!

Since I'm trying to be a bit more healthier and more conscious about what I put in my body, I used Edamame Hummus as "mayo" and I put turkey and cheese on it...then I sat down and took a picture of it to send to my sister [just to let her know her bread was VERY much appreciated!]

However, as soon as I took the picture, I knew something was missing...and I knew right away what it was...so I added:

some lettuce! Sorry for the blurry picture! As you can tell, I was in a rush to eat this yummy sandwich! And yummy it was! :)

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Please follow my sister on Instagram and Facebook! Spread the word as well! She loves baking for others and filling your belly with YUMMY YUMMY baked goods! Support her! Pray for her! And just encourage her...starting your own business isn't easy, but I know that she can do it!

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And trust, I'll also be posting up her yummy goodies as they come my way. :)

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Anyway, as I said in the beginning of this post, things don't always go as planned...at least my day didn't! As I took a bit of my heavenly just made sandwich, I get this text. Thinking that it was my sister responding to my text of my ingenious idea of using her amazing Rosemary Garlic bread as a sandwich, I check the text.

"We need you. I'm picking you up! Just two hours, I promise!" It was already like 9:PM and I was like WHAT!? I know that my Passion Roots boss would not text me AND offer to come and get me if they didn't need me, so I packed up the rest of my sandwich, packed half of my left over bread to share with my amazing Passion Roots co-workers and walked outside just as she pulled up into my driveway. And off we went.

She told me sort of what was going on at work and why they needed me. And so when I walk in I was too surprised to see these giant wooden hexagon shaped pieces with crosses in the middle chicken wired tight with flower oasis. Our bride wanted these HUGE (think at LEAST 5 1/2 feet across) chandeliers. Not one but THREE!

I wish I thought to take pictures of when we first started...but I didn't. Since it was already late, I wanted to work as fast as we could to get these finished. I have preschool work at 7:am tomorrow, but these lovely ladies had to be at The Modern at 6:45am! Plus they still needed to load all our work in the vans before being there...so that was even earlier! Here is Evy adding some foliage to this chandelier.

So, these particular floral chandeliers were to be filled with various foliage and on site they were going to add Eskimo Roses...VERY few Eskimo Roses. This is the underside of the chandeliers...and I post up pictures as I get them of the actual site when these babies are up. I can't wait! I think that it's going to look AMAZING!

After we were done with these as much as could, we preloaded them into the vans and I went upstairs to the studio (we did these pieces downstairs because there was NO WAY were going to bring these pieces downstairs...they were at LEAST 80 pounds EACH! And it was late and we were all so tired already.) I helped Shihi with some of the bouquets of the other weddings that we were also having tomorrow...

The left bouquet goes with the chandelier wedding...and the other  bouquet on the right is going to another wedding. They are SO gorgeous!

I love roses! And peonies are just so gorgeous! Look what pretty gems I found in the refrigerator I saw that we are saving for the following wedding!

How can you not look at these and just be happy! They are SO gorgeous! A beautiful color and so beautiful to look at! Lucky bride! :)

But now that I am FINALLY home...I can now sleep! So goodnight, world!

Mini Girls Day Out.

And when I say "mini" I really mean, mini...*laughs* Basically it was last minute and I had originally agreed to go because my brother's fiance was going to pick up her wedding dress from the person who altered it. And then Amanda decided to invite our other friend Sera to come along as well. She is also getting married, but she will be having her wedding in Baltamore...but it will be like two weeks after my brothers. Her fiance is currently deployed though and won't be back [hopefully] until two weeks before the wedding...so we are having fingers crossed on that whole thing.

Well, Amanda's dress appointment was at 7:30pm...and it takes about 30-45 minutes to get there so we were going to leave at 6:15 so that we can stop at our favorite cafe La Tour...oooooh! I love that place! I adore their macaroons! SUPER adore the macaroons! But when I got home from my preschool work, I noticed that WOW! My succulent leaves were starting to root and some where even growing leaves!

It was about time! Passion Roots had done a wedding about a month ago that involved succulent plants and we had to wire some of them...so in order to wire them, we had to pull some of the leaves off. I took a lot of those leaves and just laid them out so that they can start to root. One type of garden that I want to start at my new place is a mini succulent garden. [I also want an orchid garden and herb garden! :) So instead of going out and spending money on buy succulent, I decided to try my had at propagating the leaves. So this is my first time.

The instructions given to me was to just leave the leaves out. Make sure that they are out in indirect light. If they are in direct sunlight, it will literally burn the roots dead...but in a shady place with natural light. That has my patio screaming all over it! *laughs* So, since I had some time to kill, I decided to relocate the little leaves into pots of their own.

But it doesn't even stop there! I guess I got a little pot happy. *LAUGHS!* NO! Not that kind of pot!

When I was done doing this, I went back inside to wash off and wash the things that I used. Then I came back outside and realized that I didn't like how there were SO many pots...so I decided to move EVERYTHING...well, most everything to one container...at least for the time being.

And I was definitely much more happy. When they start really growing more, I might move them to their own places...but for now, this is good enough.

NOW when I was done with this, I was ready to get ready to meet my friends. I did lay down for a few minutes [30 minutes] and decided to get ready to meet my friends.

Before going to pick up Amanda's dress we were able to stop by La Tour...and you want to see the reason why I love this cafe?!

Macaroons!!!!!! Today I got Mango, Blueberry Cheesecake, and Strawberry Cheesecake. I was bummed that my favorite Cinnamon Bun wasn't there! Oh mandope, that one is a yummy one! :)

Then I did get my Crispy Chicken Tenders.

*laughs* As you can see, I couldn't help but to eat my Strawberry Cheesecake macaroon! *laughs* But Sera said something that cracked me up! "I need to eat my macaroons now! [this was even before our main meal had come out and we were still wait!] Something might happen and I might die. And I would hate for these macaroons to go to waste." Oh mandope...the way she said it was too funny! :) And just letting you know, NOPE! I didn't eat the fries. I dislike potatoes!

But after we ate, we went next door to David's Bridal and Amanda tried on her dress and liked it. The we left for home. All the while we were laughing. Talking. And just relaxing from the chaos in our classrooms. Yes, we are all teachers. :)