I had this thought during toddler wake-up number 7 on Thursday night: You can't pour from an empty cup, true, but literally at that mome...

Teaching is incredibly different in 2021 than it was in 2010 when I started. Technically, I started in 2008, as a student teacher and then s...

It's past Labor Day and we can happily say good-bye to one of the harder summers I've experienced. We started with a full DITY move...

I don't like using that language, but it's the only way to get the point across.  First, Scott's dad passed away last Sunday. We...

1. "I feel like we had a nice and productive weekend." Famous last words ^^^ That was the beginning of a post I was going to publi...

I saw this on Twitter and I had to share it: When Scott was going to the University of Wyoming, many of the students he worked wit...

At the beginning-ish of February we went under contract on our Colorado house. On Friday, we closed on our Colorado house. There will be a b...

...that we generally do not have good luck. It really started the minute Scott and I met. His car broke down a week later and his motorcycle...

This is how I felt most of last week: It was a rough week, physically and mentally. I didn't even throw in the whole almost-7-mo...

#5 on the list almost burned my house down. Woo-hoo, right? There was a fire in southern Colorado on Tuesday and, since it was a win...

I think that I needed to post the whole "we're having a baby" thing before I could properly post a year-in-review post fr...

Sometimes,  I feel like we're in a replay of the awfulness of August.  I tried to drive to work on Valentine's Day and the coola...

I've been not posting on Wednesdays for the last two months but I feel like there's a lack of substance lately on this blog, so I...

Oh these last few weeks. No filter Scott keeps telling me not to be stressed out because everything we're trying to do is his s...

Somehow it's only Thursday (morning). It's been a tumultuous week. This came up as the verse-of-the-day on Monday and I had to lau...

Edited to add: I wrote this before the Women Tell All episode of The Bachelor last week. You know, the showdown in which Corrine was given a...

It has been a week .  Or rather, it started off as a week. Then it got better. As most weeks do when Monday is over. I'm feeling fort...