Lipstick and Lesson Plans

Happy Thanksgiving, friends! I am grateful for your presence in my life.🍁🍁🍁 (at Tallahassee, Florida)

1. I want this primitive Christmas tree, and all the felted animals on it. This needs to be my Christmas tree. 2. I’m obsessed with Yarn Therapy. It makes me want to become a gifted knitter, so I can make beautiful things and make my own felted stuff. 3. Yarn Therapy is in this super cute cottage on Lake Ella. It looks like a damn fairy tale in there. If that were my store, I’d live on the top floor, and the store would be on the bottom floor, and it would be amazing. (at Yarn Therapy)

Spotted in Crystal River (at Tea House 650)

Homework assignment: disguise a turkey, and write to describe them. They ran with it! How cute are these? (at South Seminole Heights)

So this happened today! Thanks to all the parents who came out to my class to speak to the kiddos at the Great American Teach In :) (at Tampa, Florida)

Thank you, veterans, for your service, especially those who are dear to my heart: My dad, US Army paratrooper and WWII veteran, my uncle, who had a career in Naval intelligence, my father in law for his service in the Air Force, and my nephew Chad💜 (at South Seminole Heights)

This is what happens when you are the last to answer the group text. #iamtheyellowbrickroad #shortstraw #halloweencostume #beingateacher #firstgraderocks

Narwhal or unicorn? (at Tallahassee, Florida)

What a great way to start the day! Have a wonderful week, virtual tribe! 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 #rainbow #monday #morning #positivevibes (at Tampa Bay)

What a great day at the zoo with my awesome team, and 1st graders! (at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo)

#seminoleheights #southseminoleheights (at Spaddy's Coffee Co.)

So there I was...heading out for my afternoon power walk to the park and also having a transcendent moment whilst listening to “Silver Spring,” when I looked up and saw this: the clearest, most vibrant rainbow 🌈 I’ve seen in a long time. Then, it rained on me, but in that moment I was happy.💜 (at Rivercrest)

I’ve gone a little overboard with these rewards I’m making for my #VIPKID classroom... (at South Seminole Heights)

This morning’s sunrise stopped me in my tracks. :) (at South Seminole Heights)

You REALLY are, and if you forget that, take a moment to reflect on all your accomplishments. It took me forty-five years to be able to recognize my worth. Now, I work hard, show up as best I can, and try to make things better wherever I go. Always remember your worth. (at Old Seminole Heights)

We have a mystery writer at our school. Nobody is quite sure who this person is, but we all have our suspicions. Whoever this wonderful person is, they write motivational snippets and post them in the staff bathroom for us to read every morning. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re just uplifting. Today’s was one of my favorites! And so, conference night begins… (at Mitchell Elementary School)