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The View From Lancaster Quilt Week

Miller's

Yes! After all my years of traveling to Lancaster, I finally got to go to Miller's Smorgasbord. What an experience! Bunkey convinced me to order the full spread - what a mistake. I absolutely ate too much, but we had fun!

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And so it is, for the third day in a row, I left the house just before sunrise. I am not a morning person; not by any stretch of the imagination. I have to admit, however, that even I cannot ignore the beauty of a rosy sky at sunrise!

There was never a night or a problem

that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Time with an Old Friend

Okay, I hate to admit it, but I still love Nancy Drew. During the school year I have such a hard time starting new novels because I cannot stop reading once I am into a book. But I don't have that issue with Nancy Drew. I know that she will be waiting for me whenever I get back to her. Generally I can read a book in an hour or two. I cannot seem to put that much time together now that training has started so Nancy and I meet, about once a day, for ten minutes or so. Just long enough to catch me up on her latest escapade, fill me in on the details of life in River Heights and the latest with Hannah Gruen. 

The latest copies I have were found at the Book Fair in Collingswood last October. I had forgotten I had them until I cleaned off a bookshelf yesterday. So happy to have a little Nancy in the evening!

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Project Life 2014, Week 10

And just like that, we are more than ten weeks into the new year. It must be that I am getting older, but really time does seem to fly a little faster the slower I seem to move!

I used a photo for the "week" card on this spread because I happened to catch a robin under the bird feeder on Sunday. The poor bird must have been shocked to see all the snow on Monday morning. I think she arrived home just a bit too soon!

As you can see by the photo, my printer is acting up again. Fortunately I figured out how to print photos on Mark's printer. It is much more difficult to keep up with Project Life or any type of daily documentation when I need to run out to get photos printed.

There is a sharp contrast in photos from Sunday into Monday. We had another snow day on Monday and it felt like a real gift! Tuesday gave us a delayed opening and, I started my training again - just 12 weeks until I jump off the Cape May Ferry! Crazy! For my Tuesday photo, I decided to share a photo of a student reflection from our attempt to celebrate students. I think it will be fun to look back from year to year to see how I have changed, grown, as a teacher! 

The second half of the week was a whirlwind of activity. Two nights in a row of physical therapy and the continuation of training. When I keep to my schedule, I am training six nights a week. This year I need to ease myself into training as I am still dealing with knee and hip issues. Hopefully my joints will get with the program quickly! Friday evening I was supposed to run 20 minutes, but after the week my knees just didn't cooperate. I decided to walk instead. Friday evening we had good friends over for dinner. I had finished the quilt for Robin and I am happy to say it is now at home on her bed!

Saturday brought an unexpected journey out to Mt. Holly. The Village Quilter is 12! Wow! We made a quick visit to the quilt shop and then took advantage of the warmer weather to wander up and down High Street. We stopped in The Village Idiot Brewing Company for a tasting and in Red White and Brew for a look at some beer and wine. A relaxing afternoon before heading home to taxes and an episode of Downton Abbey!

All in all it was a great week. I think I may finally be ready for the warmer weather. I have loved the snow this winter but the birds are chirping extremely loud and I think they are chastizing me for my snow prayers!

Tomorrow I will be linking up with Jessica Turner over at The Mom Creative. If you are the least bit interested in Project Life, I encourage to stop over at Becky Higgins' site and check out all of the inspiration! Ali Edwards posted her Week 1 today if you are looking for a little inspiration!

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Day three of training and I am progressing nicely. Tonight was swim sprints and my tri-buddy Jackie was available! That made it a great night. I am anticipating soreness tomorrow, but tonight my body is feeling pretty good! Just three more days of training until I have a day off - hooray for Monday!

Quotes I Love

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle.

1851 diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton

Tuesday, in Second Grade

We are a very busy second grade team. We are pushing Marzano to the max. In addition to celebrating learning success, we are now celebrating good character in a very public way. Each time a student earns recognition they are photographed with their "badge" and then their picture along with a one sentence reflection is going to be posted on the wall in our hallway. 

Just another simple way to be sure that each and every child has a chance to be celebrated! 

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Project Life 2014, Week 9

Week Nine was such a busy week - it is a wonder that I survived! It all began with my niece's 16th birthday party on Sunday. BOWLING!

You know how I feel about leaving the house on Sunday, but it was Amanda's Birthday party and you know how I feel about Amanda! We had such fun. As you can see by the scoreboard, I am not a bowler. That actually was my lowest score of the day, I did better in earlier games, but my knees started screaming and that was it! Before heading over to the bowling alley I made a 2 page layout for Amanda of the pictures from her Sophmore Cotillion. I love how it came out. Monday I was still dealing with the headache and nausea from the week before, I came home from work and went straight to bed. Mark picked me up a Starbucks' treat while he was out. I love Starbucks and my very thoughtful hubby!

Tuesday, again, I was in bed immediately after we got home from food shopping. I cannot continue this way! Wednesday I had a meeting for work until 6pm. I vowed not to go to bed until closer to 9:30 so I busied myself with school work and a bit of reading. Thursday, it was more of the same. School, then a 2-hour professional development workshop that I helped plan and then a 2-hour quilt class. I wandered into the house after 9, exhausted. Thankfully Friday was a relatively easy day at school. I had a couple of parents coming in to be mystery readers to celebrate a couple of student birthdays. Then we had the pizza lunch that my students' earned for raising over 1,000 boxtops. After recess, it was the jump rope for heart assembly.

After work the hectic-ness (it is a word) continued. We picked up a rug that Naya wanted Jason to have, then there was dinner and computer organizing work at Bunkey's and then Les Miserables at my niece Olivia's school. As a freshman she was a member of the ensemble. They did a wonderful job and I am so proud of her!

Saturday was a lay low kind of day. I had an errand to run but after that I was home the entire day. One of Jason's dear friends stopped by with her baby for a visit! So exciting to see little miss Arya. We had such a nice visit!

The picture I included for Saturday is actually a photo I copied from facebook. It is Jason and his buddies from work posing for the camera while working the Philly Craft Beer Festival. I love including photos form my kiddos in my Project Life album!

I am still loving the Midnight Edition. The simple color scheme, black, white and gold is easy to work with and easy to add embellishments to if I am so inclined. 

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