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After four years of cheer crafting, our last batch of banquet invitations was completed over the weekend. Here is 2013, 2014 and 2015.
This year's version included making our own envelopes and those little red bows. Other than that it's pretty simple. Of course nothing feels quite so simple when you need to make forty-five of them.
Bow Punch...Envelope Punch Board...Fonts: Mily Mix//Pistilli//RM Typewriter
It's 9:49 on Wednesday morning and I am straightening up way too much stuff around the house. I have been extra messy these last few days.
Usually at this day and time I am in front of my Sociology of the Family class at the state college, but it's spring break there, so I have the morning off.
Last Wednesday I received the dreaded email that I was not chosen as a finalist for the Sociology position either, which has had me pretty quiet around here in the past week.
So that's that.
I am lucky, really darn lucky, that I still have the job that I love. I'll be at both schools and it seems like my schedule of classes at the community college will not be changing as much as they mentioned it might.
I just wish there was an opportunity for growth...besides trying to find more classes at an additional school. The part I would have looked forward to the most with a full-time position is being part of a campus far more than walking in and out of a classroom. I need to make something like that happen in the future.
Thank you so much for all of your kind words these last three months. Now it's back to fun stuff around here...making cards, growing tomatoes, little house projects and hopefully a lot more craftiness.
This is about as crafty as I got for the holiday, but we are still looking forward to hosting our family's homemade brunch tomorrow.
Hope you have a wonderful celebration too.
I was not selected as a finalist for the Women's Studies position. I have not heard about the Sociology one yet. I'm similtaneously hopeful and terrified. If I do not get the job, the extra downside will be that the school has hired two full-time faculty members, so as an adjunct there I have been told I won't have as many classes. Makes it even more stressful.
It occurred to me, as I didn't sleep well last night, that I have spent this exact time of year at age 19, 29, and now 39 in a similar, life-altering way.
In March 1996, I found out I was pregnant with identical twin boys. I was a sophomore in college and being a mom certainly altered the next decade ahead of me.
In March 2006, I was married with a nine year old and trying to have another family member. If you've been around here that long, you know how that went. Not very well. But we decided to have different goals as a little family and it has been a far better decade than I ever could have imagined.
And here I am, right before starting my 40's, having dreamed of being a full-time faculty member at this school since I started there as a student fifteen years ago. Will this third decade change be the charm?
As hard as it will be if it doesn't work out the way I've hoped, at least the last two decades have taught me a lot of good can happen no matter what.
I had my Sociology interview last Thursday afternoon and my Women's Studies interview on Sunday morning. Calls will be made sometime this week to whoever is onto a final interview with the college president. Holding my breath and crossing my fingers...
Last year I made boards for the pocket planner I gave my mom, the one I have, and my A5 size planner. They are hole punched and sit in the back of the binder to help create a more solid surface to write on. I realized just a couple of months ago, that it would be handy to have another one to put directly behind the page as I wrote on it.
Like the other boards, I simply adhered some favorite pattern papers to a piece of cardboard. I store the board in the front pocket of my planner and use it all the time.
P.S. After submitting applications I was called for a Sociology interview..and there is a Women's Studies interview written on the other page for next week. Thanks for all of your good wishes a few weeks ago. For the next twelve days I'll be prepping teaching demonstrations and holding my breath. I'll be back on March 21st...
It took me years to collect all of these, because I could not resist the colors. The bowls are usually in rainbow order up on this shelf in the kitchen, because I am a nerd. However, this past weekend they were all freshly scrubbed to serve up soup and salad for our last cheer team dinner.
And now that I went to the Anthropologie website to get a link to the bowls...there are even more colors that I might really need. The peach...that lime green...
Did you know that sometimes cheer competitions can go until 10pm on a Sunday night?
We do now.
Getting ready to print the first batch of pages for 2016. Two tiny changes I made this year were not having rounded corners on the photos and having weeks run Monday through Sunday. Other than that, it's the same documenting of lots and lots of details.
I was making this tortellini soup earlier today to have for dinner tonight. Instead of frozen vegetables, I added onion, garlic, carrots and spinach. Oh and I added beef...because I am shamefully lost in this world without meat.
I used a squeeze of tomato paste and immediately grabbed a sharpie to write the date that I opened it on it...which I do with pretty much every condiment in our fridge. I should do it with more items in our pantry too.
I don't know if everyone does this too or no one does, but I'll admit it has been an incredibly handy reference when cleaning out the fridge. Because even though the italian dressing might not expire for a couple more weeks, it helps to know it's been cracked open for three months or something.
I have a habit of keeping websites open on my phone of stuff I eventually want to save. An article to share with my students...a recipe I want to try...ideas for our house...and, let's be honest, too much cute stuff I am wishing for.
Over the past couple months I kept way too many sites open and finally took a little time to add it to wishlists, pin it or save it in Evernote.
Here's some of the stuff I saved...
These super cute project bags...I can't decide which color is the cutest.
I want a green chalkboard wall.
Um, planner stuff in an increasing obsession. I had to get these stamps (with a couple few other sets).
Coconut Lime Chicken and Chicken Spaghetti topped with American cheese both have me intrigued.
Have kept this link open for our bedroom and want to include this.
One day I will bake bread.
Loved reading this and this and saved them to incorporate into future class topics.
I have wanted this print forever...my dining room wall really needs it.
And did I mention planner supplies? Oh my goodness these stickers.
