She lives

I am surviving life as a first year teacher. I am always busy, overwhelmed, exhausted, and in love. I have the sweetest students and if it weren't for my room having no a/c I would have no complaints. I think my students think I have an overly shimmery upper lip because it is always sweating. I have 10th-12th graders and they are lovely. They make me laugh every single day, all day. I cannot explain how much I love my job and the super helpful coworkers. I'm still figuring out how I feel about living where I work but I do know that I love Floyd County High School. How I feel about living in Floyd is yet to be determined.

This is a review game I did a couple of weeks ago

If I do anything besides school work it is this: 

Picking, freezing, picking, canning. We have LOADS of zucchini in the fridge: shredded, slices, spears, casseroles. And all of those cans are either tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, salsa, apple butter or apple sauce. I am very proud of us for jumping right in with the preservation (or prepping as our friends Sarah and Ben say). I promise we're not preppers. We just like to grow things and because we aren't a family of 12 we can't eat it as quickly as it comes in so we are prepping (in a sense) but just for winter not for an apocalypse.  

The only thing outside of canning and teaching we have done is travel home for Labor day weekend. My sister's wedding shower was on Saturday and Drew spent the weekend camping with my uncle and other family members who came and went (like myself). The shower was lovely and the hiking and camping were just what I needed on my weekend off. 

Drew is hiking this weekend and I'm trying to get ahead on some lesson planning for next week. Football has started so that will fill all free moments of our weekends. Fantasy football, college football, FCHS football, thank God it's fall. Here's hoping this heat ends soon so I can't stop frightening my students with a glowing face.

I wore a lot on Wednesday

So I don't think I've ever done a What I Wore Wednesday post before. Usually because I'm rarely presentable on Wednesdays. Most Wednesdays are like most Thursdays: I'm sitting here with no pants on and Drew's oversized Batman t-shirt. That's my usual summer attire but yesterday I had plans so I over-compensate for all my ratty days and dress up. And I know mirror pics are no longer appropriate but how else does one get a pic of a full outfit when home alone??

Also, last night after dinner and a walk around town I gave Drew the exciting news that we were going home to take pics of all my outfits for teacher-life. It took several hours and I don't know who was most miserable, Ike or Drew.

I ranged from frumpy old teacher to almost stylish to looking like a 12-year-old. Who knows what my students will think??? Some of the outfits were quite unflattering but I made an attempt to use every article of appropriate clothing that I own so some of it was a hot mess. For example:

This is for when I want to look my frumpiest.

This is one of  the only ones I was semi-proud of:

In case you can't tell Ike felt the need to be in every pic. Also, our room got progressively messier as the hours passed.

Drew stated what profession I was dressed for in each outfit for example this one is detective:

And this one is engineer:

My guess is an iron would go a long way for most of these clothes. Also, most of my clothes would fit better if I lost 5-10 pounds so that'd be a nice perk to all of this vegan business.

Oh and this is what a 12-year-old looks like teaching History to your high schooler:

 

 

Also, these pics made me quite aware of how poor my posture is. Eek!!! 

My feet hurt after the first hour, so teaching may prove to be difficult if I don't invest in more comfy shoes.