Reminders...

Yesterday was a rotten day. My first two groups of kids had a mixture of spring fever/Friday fever/EOG brain fry. They were off the wall. My overhead blew a bulb as soon as I turned it on and I had to send someone to get a replacement. I was ready to pull my hair out.

But then I had my youngest group. The little girl is just precious. She is always so excited to learn and do things, and she is ALWAYS in a good mood. I don't know if it was just a relief to finally have a group that listened and did as they were asked, but by the end of my time with them, I wanted to call her mom and say, "You know what? Your child was such a blessing to me today." And that sustained me for the rest of the day.

Chinese take-out and $18.00 savings at the grocery store also improved my mood!

The Beginning

I love food. I love cooking, dining out, and entertaining with food. However, loving food too much leads to undesired results. In November I started the South Beach Diet and have lost 13 pounds since then (I haven't always been strict about it, especially during teacher appreciation week!). I love finding new recipes with the whole grains and trying them out. I also like the challenge of making my existing recipes more SBD friendly.

I am an Exceptional Children's teacher in a small town in coastal North Carolina. I love my students. They are some of the hardest working kids I have ever met. I have some great colleagues. I got married in October 2008 to my wonderful husband Jimmy. We have two dogs, Sadie and Katie, and a cat, named Remus. We love to travel, go fishing, and home improvement projects. Well, maybe we don't love the projects, but we try to make them fun!