Bloggy Exchanges!

I participated in both the Teacher and Class exchange!

For the class exchange, I was paired with Amber at...






We kept it simple and exchanged handmade cards. I honestly wanted to do more, but I was paranoid of doing Valentine's stuff too far ahead of Valentine's Day and getting in trouble! We third graders have a test to prepare for you know! Anyway, our classes matched up nicely, and we paired up our students so that they made/got cards for/from the same student. At least that was the plan. Until 1 of my boys was absent, 1 boy moved after I sent her my list, and 1 boy refused to cooperate [as usual]. So I had to reassign a few. But my kids had fun and loved getting stuff from other kids! I wish I took pics. My girls made the cutest cards. A few boys really did, too. But then there were some strange ones. Sorry, Amber! I have a unique bunch this year.

Onto the Teacher Exchange! My gift was for Mor at

I forgot to take a picture before I sent it [typical]. But she put a pic on her blog, so I'll post that! I made her a LOVE wreath, and I included a cute little trinket box. I'm glad she liked it!

My valentine was from someone named Sydney. Sydney, if you have a blog, reach out to me! I'd love to thank you for the gift! She gave me a giftcard to Erin Condren. Truth be told, I'm a Erin Condren virgin. But this gives me a reason to be that no longer. So thank you Sydney!

If you participated, don't be a slacker [like me]! Go link up! =)

Valentine's, Shmalentine's...

Okay, so first. I have a serious issue that needs to be addressed.

When given the chance, does anyone else sleep for 14-15 hours?

Someone needs to tell my body that this isn't normal.

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Well, now that that's taken care of, we can get onto things!

Today, I went to a Sushi 101 class in Rehobeth! I guess I should have led up to this by saying that I think sushi is weird. I really only like it if it has cream cheese and COOKED meat. No raw meat for me. So I was a lot a little out of my element! But this was a gift to my boyfriend for Christmas. This was the soonest I could book a spot for this class! 

[Side note: I love experience gifts! I'd take an experience gift over a material gift any day. But no one even listens to me, so I keep getting stuff!]

So it was a lot of fun. The guy talked to the class for awhile, which got reaaaally boring. But once it was time to actually make it, it was fun! Turns out, I'm good at rolling sushi! My boyfriend's, on the other hand, looked like burritos! But it was fun to try something new, and you got to eat/take home everything that you made! We Boyfriend brought home two take home boxes like this!

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Now I feel that I can acknowledge the title of this post! It's so crazy to think about my life on previous Valentine's Days. But last year on Valentine's Day, I began dating my current boyfriend! So not only is the day a holiday, but it is also our one year anniversary. [Cue Awwwww]

The reason for the title is that we aren't even celebrating on that day. =( The boy works late on Tuesdays, and I'm sure its going to be cuh-razy out with everyone going out to dinner and such. So we're going to hang out, exchange presents, but we're not doing dinner or anything until the following weekend. I'm looking forward to it!

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How are you celebrating Valentine's Day with your students? I'm keeping it SUPER low key. Call me crazy, but I have a TON of teaching to do. So we're not doing anything crafty until after lunch.

We're going to make these simple crafts I found online using skin colored card stock and foam hearts I found at ACMoore that were in packs of 5 for a dollar each.

Nothing crazy. I don't have time for glitter, patterns, and all of that. =( After that, we're having a small celebration. I made it a point to write SMALL CELEBRATION on the notes I sent home, because I don't want obscene amount of food. But I feel obligated to have a party. So I'm assuming a few kids are going to bring in Valentine's.

My gift to the kids are small tote bags, also from ACMoore. They were in packs of a few for a dollar, I forget exactly how many. Good deal though! I'll put a pencil in each one, a paper airplane Valentine that I found, and they can also use these bags to take home their Valentines. Boom, done.

I went all out for Christmas. I made all of the kids mini stockings, put something in them every day for the week leading up to Christmas Break. I think I burnt myself out with that!

That's all I have for you this evening. I have a full work week ahead. YIKES!

Currently...

So I'm trying to ween myself off of using Picnic for editing images [because it will be going bye bye soon], so I used Pages [Mac] for this. Much more of a headache. On top of the massive headache that I already have. Gr.

So here's my link up with Farley! I've linked up a few times, and it is definitely something to look forward to each month!

One more thing....

The most unintentionally threatening Valentine's Day card ever written by a child..

Still laughing. Click it for the source. Hahahaha.

And on that note, gooooodnight!