Hey guys! Take a look at me and one of my best friends since Kindergarten.
Her husband is doing his residency out in Albuquerque. Needless to say, Atlanta and Albuquerque are a long ways away. (Thank you Lord) I get Wednesday-Friday off of work for a Winter Break!
So lets think about this situation shall we?
My friend has a little boy who is two. About a month ago, she had a sweet little girl that I haven't been able to meet yet.
Hmmm. A good friend with two precious babies and three days out of school.
What should I do?
Did you say fly to Albuquerque? If you did, you'd be right and you'd get a sticker (or a stamp-your choice) if you were in my class!
I leave tomorrow and am really, really excited! I do wish my good man could go (he is her cousin, by the way) but he has class the rest of the week.
I promise to have a great time and I promise to hold cute little babies the whole time and take lots of pictures. I'll be back Sunday night, so ya'll enjoy the rest of your week!
So back in October I finally learned that a sensitivity to gluten was the reason I had felt so crappy for a while. For a few weeks I pretty much lived on sweet potatoes and squash because the whole concept of what I could and couldn't eat was really confusing. I'm from the South and a huge part of my life has always been eating. I love to eat and I love to eat bread. And pasta and drink a beer every now and then. Seriously, I would pick restaurants because of the bread. The problem with all of those foods I just listed? Gluten. Dang. Here we are are a few months later, and I'm starting to get the hang of it and I'm starting to be a little more adventurous.
Take breakfast, for example. Gone are the days of eating a quick Pop-Tart or a piece of toast on the way to work. So are the days of eating "regular" muffins, waffles, cereal bars, cereal and some oatmeal without feeling like someone is punching me in the stomach. Of course you can buy these things made gluten free but they are really pretty expensive. Hmmmm.. What's a girl to do? Roll up her sleeves and make her own gluten free muffins, of course.
But first, you have to find all kinds of cool flour because wheat flour just won't work anymore. You need things like rice flour and white sorghum flour and tapioca flour and soy flour and stuff like that. After a few trips to Whole Foods and the Buford County Farmer's Market, I got all of this.
Then, I did my homework on gluten free blogs and found good sounding recipes. Then, I mixed all that new flour around and soon had...
gluten free blueberry-cherry muffins!
They freeze really well and heat wonderfully in the morning. What's better than a warm muffin and a big mug of coffee on a cold morning commute to teach first graders? I don't know either.
I don't have pictures of the food, but I have used this...
to make really good gluten free waffles. I found another cool recipe and made...
gluten free sandwich bread.
I went on a Field Trip the day after I made this bread where I had to take a sack lunch. So what did I do? I had me a peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich!
I'm definitely still learning how to cook gluten free but I am starting to feel a lot more comfortable with it.
Hey guys. Way past time for an update I'd say. On Friday, Atlanta actually got quite a bit of snow (for Atlanta). It came down hard for a while and was such a pretty way to end a hectic Friday. Here are a couple of pictures from my porch.
When I got home, Seth had these waiting for me...
Earlier in the day, a kid had given me these for Valentine's Day...
So now, the new table in my hall looks like this...
On Sunday, my principal called us to come move everything back into our building. I left my room looking like this...
Hey guys! I planned on posting, taking a shower, cleaning the kitchen and being in bed by 34 minutes ago. Lets just say that LOST had different plans for me tonight. So... here is a quick post of pictures of things that have been going on in my life recently (The Great Flood of 2010). Enjoy!
It looks like the first Teacher Workday back in August... not the first week back from Christmas Break.
You can see the part of my ceiling that caved in and the part that fell later that day.
The ceiling in the classroom next door. I told you my class was lucky.
And there you have a taste of the craziness my school is currently experiencing. Being in the library with another class isn't as terrible as you might think but I'm ready to be back in my room. Okay. back to LOST for me.
