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#5joysfriday why do short weeks sometimes feel longer? I‘ve worked 2 weeks straight in grade 1 and I‘m exhausted 🥱 random joys 1. I voted early 2. Puppy visit with Griz 3. The magnolia is having a MOMENT 4. My niece and I having matching manicures 5. My oldest left last night to work at a YMCA camp in Alberta for 6 weeks. An exciting and a bit nerve wracking new challenge for him. I‘m full of joy for him taking risks

Nothing major happened this week but it‘s still nice to practice gratitude, it‘s the simple things that matter anyway

1. My fur babies (my dog Luna too, but I didn‘t get any photos of her this week)
2. A brand new journal
3. Stickers for said journal
4. Going for walks
5. Missed quite a bit of CrossFit last week and early this week but was able to jump back in yesterday

Consider yourself tagged if you see this 😉
@DebinHawaii #5JoysFriday

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Mom‘s surgery went well
2. Iced coffee
3. Rain storms
4. Pumpkin
5. Winnie

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

#5joysfriday 1. LONG WEEKENDS 🎉 2. Mixed media collage art I did with the grade 1 class I‘m in for 2 weeks is absolutely the cutest ever 3. The magnolia season has started, buds are splitting 🌸🌸🌸 finally feels like spring might be here 4. Date night last night at a Japanese restaurant we can walk to and whisky highballs ❤️ 5 started a new book with some chips and wine 👌🏻

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. A fun handmade card from a friend
2. Kevin is sassy
3. Daily book coffee picture exchange with a friend
4. S‘more sundae treat with my daughter
5. A local book club with themed SNACKS (and wine)! I look very naughty for some reason. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Tagging @Kshakal @JenReadsAlot @BethM

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Coffee
2. Bubl‘r
3. My teacher bestie
4. Pumpkin
5. Winnie

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

#5joysfriday I haven‘t taught all week so it‘s been a lovely quiet chill couple of days of doing whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it 1. I‘m obsessed with the Color Block Jam game 2. Finished the little flower arrangement Lego set 3. Started the telephone box Lego set 4. Book Outlet order came in ( cuz I need more books 😆) 5. Date night last night to a restaurant in the ‘hood we‘ve been going to try forever. Everything was amazing

#5joysfriday 1. I did a collage art project with 3 grade 1 classes and covered the artist-tree with birds on Monday 2. I got my nails done in pastels ( abstract Easter eggs) 3. My favourite clothing store shares my views on Spring weather 4. I went out on a Friday night 🤯 to see the funnest band ever and everyone I know was there 🤣 I danced for hours ( they play covers of hits from the 70‘s through to the 00‘s ) 5. The sun shone today ☀️

Thanks for tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. New jewelry
4. Yoga
5. 8 weeks of school left

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

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#5joysfriday 1. It‘s Friday #praisebe and my mini pack of Canadian wine order came 2. Fairy porn aka ACOWAR 3. Spring art with a grade 1 class because 4. Spring is psycho 5. Federal election is a go and I have mostly positive feelings that the Liberals will win ( the premier of Alberta is bonkers for trump and sinking the conservative ship 🤞🏻🤞🏻 with her nonsense)

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. Book club
4. Only 9 weeks of school left
5. Friend time

@TheSpineView @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot @BethM

1-2) Visiting Mom & Dad (& playing dominoes) & seeing all the birds visiting them
3) Buying loads of books from 4 bookstores in Houston
4) Eating at the astronauts‘ fave restaurant Frenchie‘s with son & husband
5) Going to the NASA Space Center and seeing the Saturn rocket again—an amazing sight to behold

Sadly I caught a stomach bug and have been really sick since last night. 😞

Thanks @DebinHawaii for the tag! #5joysFriday

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView and @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. Shopping
4. Trashy reality tv
5. Belly laughs with my bestie

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

#5joysfriday TGIF 1. I have been coveting these leopard sambas FOREVER and the universe heard me at last 2. Canadian wine order coming soon ( we make good wine in Ontario) 3. I taught art in grade 1 today and we did mixed media daffodils ??4. Spring is so mean sometimes 5. Drinking Ontario rosé and eating Canadian Cheezies while I type this #livingthedream this week felt long! I hope all of you are having a great Friday

1. My boys, Zeke and Link, cuddling!
2. Rewatching New Girl
3. Spring is blooming 🌸
4. Dr. Pepper
5. Will 🩵

#5JoysFriday

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii #5joysfriday

1. Relaxation time
2. A new hair cut
3. Seeing past students living their dreams
4. Delicious coffee
5. Shopping time

 @BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

#5joysfriday it‘s been a glorious week of nothing much thanks to March Break. 1. I finished Mona and hung her in my bedroom ( a little gallery wall moment is happening) 2. John and I went out to dinner Wednesday to a new place in the ‘hood ( no pics) and breakfast on Thursday to an old place 3. I had a massage, got my haircut and my nails done and walked to a McDonald‘s for a fountain Diet Coke because I could 4. It was 11° C yesterday

#5joysfriday TGIF 1. I did art with 2 grade 1 classes this week and in one class we painted robins and I put them up on the Artis-tree today 2. A friend makes book memory ornaments filled with all the books you read in a year, mine arrived this week ❤️❤️ 3. Pancake day is always delicious 4. Canada is getting her sass on 5. This meme speaks to me but I‘m more of a 3 days of rest person at this point 🙏🏻 it‘s March Break this week

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Spring break starts at 3:30 today
2. Macarons and ice cream
3. Spending time with friends
4. Pumpkin
5. Winnie

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

Here‘s to the simple joys in life!

1. Did plenty of creating this week (makes my soul happy).
2. With the Merlin ID app from Cornell, I was able to ID all of the bird sounds in our yard (I drew ones I saw, image on the far left).
3. My cats Sunny & Midnight gave me plenty of moments full of love/laughter, as usual 🥰
4. I had a me date at the bookstore.
5. Went on a few walks with my son & our dog, we had nice talks 🥰

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii #5joysfriday

1. I got an A in my first grad school class!
2. One more week until spring break
3. The way above freezing temperatures we have had this week
4. Spending time with my mom
5. Some of my students have had some pretty cool accomplishments this week!

@peaKnit @JenReadsAlot @BethM

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Coffee flights
2. Time with friends
3. Pumpkin
4. Winnie
5. New glasses

@peaKnit @JenReadsAlot @BethM

#5joysfriday #1. Happy Valentine‘s Day #2. Loving the ACOTAR Buddy read #3. Mona Lisa is coming along #4. I got ‘diet coke‘ nails - to quote myself - a French manicure with chrome base and red tips #5. Sometimes AI is god tier bonus #6. It‘s a long weekend with more snow forecasted and I just want to read and be a sloth

Thanks for the tag @peaKnit and @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Cozy pjs
2. Yoga
3. The color pink
4. Pumpkin
5. Winnie

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @KateReadsYA

#5joysfriday Pretty low key week where I tried not to get overwhelmed by assholes in politics 1. My son brought home lunch for me today 🍔🥤2. I ordered a lot of books from Book Outlet #booksaremylovelanguage #selfcare 3. I had lunch with my sister on her birthday at a new chicken place 4 & 5 I am completely hooked on the Empyrean Series, I finished the first 2 this week and I‘m trying to wait until March to read the 3rd 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii and @Eggs

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. Pedicures
4. Time with my bestie
5. Self-care

@peaKnit @JenReadsAlot @BethM

#5joysfriday thx @dabbe for tagging me, I‘ve gotten out of the habit of looking for joys and that‘s just sad 1. It‘s been a good month for reading and I have 4 on the go to bring in February 2. The #naturalitsywintercardswap cards keep rolling in and brightening my days ❤️ 3. My Lego Mona Lisa is amazing 4. Tarrif talk has me embracing ‘made in canada‘ 5. I have felt seen by all the memes about January and it‘s never ending self

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii and @peaKnit

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. The movie wicked
4. Bookclub
5. Self-care

@JenReadsAlot @BethM @KateReadsYA

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii and @JenReadsAlot

#5joysfriday

It was a rough week, so I had to dig deep to find some joy!

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. Coffee
4. Doing well in my first week of grad school
5. New jewelry

@BethM @peaKnit @KateReadsYA

#5JoysFriday

Thanks for the 🔖tag @DebinHawaii 🥰Just a few of the things/people I am grateful for this week.

Wanna play😏 @CBee @PageShifter @TheBookHippie

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. A new water bottle
4. Fuzzy blankets
5. 1st semester is done today, which means I am half way through the school year!

@peaKnit @JenReadsAlot @BethM

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii and @peaKnit

#5joysfriday

1. Pumpkin
2. Winnie
3. After school shopping trips
4. Belly laughs
5. Fuzzy blankets

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @KateReadsYA

1. Last minute trip with son to Austin and San Antonio. So much fun even tho I fell down the steps of the Capitol and twisted my ankle.
2. Is this van too funny?
3. Davy Crockett at The Alamo. There‘s a whole museum of Alamo artifacts donated by Phil Collins.
4. Amazing tacos at Torchy‘s in Austin.
5. Even the Austin airport is so cool!

#5JoysFriday. @DebinHawaii

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii and @TheSpineView

#5joysfriday

1. Snow days
2. Christmas lights
3. Hot chocolate
4. Fuzzy blankets
5. Christmas movies

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

#5joysfridays it‘s been a week 🤣🤣 1. I found my favourite pretzel crackers at Costco again after a too long for me hiatus 2. We move our youngest home from Uni this weekend and I have rented a storage unit and gone through multiple bins here and resorted stuff and this pile is ready to load in the car to pack him up 3. I‘m loving the #littensloveromance read this month 4. My iced peppermint mocha cold brew is life 5. I baked 1/5 cookie recipes

#5joysfridays 1. The tree was up but I finally decorated it last weekend 2. We got a lot of snow ands it‘s already almost all gone 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3. I continue to get joy from the list of books I found that feel like a hug - The Wishing Game is from that list 4. I did more art with some grade 2s and 3s that was so much fun 5. Our Honda Pilot died after 18 yrs of service - we experienced a lot of joy with it, our kids grew up while we drove it

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Giving back to the community
2. Book club
3. Christmas lights
4. Pumpkin
5. Winnie

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

1. Amazing sunrise from my front porch.
2. Inside of my Magic World book nook which I worked on all week. Such a fun change from jigsaw puzzles!
3. Lunch with daughter for her birthday included grilled cheese with 3 kinds of cheese, bacon and crispy onion bites.
4. Recipe for tagine reminded me of trip with my kiddos to Morocco last year.
5. Bitter cold didn‘t stop us from pizza Thursday at favorite pizza joint.

#5JoysFriday. @DebinHawaii

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Christmas lights
2. Belly laughter
3. Shopping with my bestie
4. Cozy sweatshirts
5. Fuzzy socks

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

#5joysfriday 1. Cardinal art with grade 2s based on Charley Harper 2. Tree art with grade 2/3s 3. I got my nails done 4. My Santas are all out inside and out 5. Not my phone updating and this app is screwed up and I don‘t know how to add my picture

1. Me and the kiddos at the Lightscape show at the Botanic Gardens. It was SO COLD but beautiful.
2. Fun game daughter brought to Thanksgiving.
3. Birthday gift of Edward Gorey plate.
4. Favorite books reading list from @thegreensofa
5. Breakfast with two best friends. So much love!💕

#5JoysFriday. @DebinHawaii

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Coffee flights
2. The movie wicked
3. Time to rest and rejuvenate
4. Turkey trot
5. Thanksgiving food

@JenReadsAlot @peaKnit @BethM

#5joysfriday I had another full week of teaching so it feels like I did nothing but put one foot in front of the other 1. last Saturday we drove to Toronto to see Beckett and go to the Swedish Fair and had lunch ( I love liver wurst ❤️) 2. We saw where the Eras Tour was going to be that night 😢 without me 3. My poinsettia is coming along 4. Last night I went to a magical holiday sale event 5. Today I‘m going shoe shopping with my sister & niece

1. I went for my mammogram this week so I treated my self to 2. A new mug to help me get over the fact I won‘t get to go to the Eras Tour 3. I taught a lot this week and I got to teach art ❤️❤️❤️ I did torn paper owls with grade 2s and we painted BIG fall leaves in grade 1 4. I fancied up my front urns for Christmas and 5. My Lego wreath brings me joy ( so much I ordered the big botanical garden for myself for Christmas 😆) #5joysfriday

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Thanksgiving dinner made by students
2. Fun teacher dress-up days
3. Book club
4. Pumpkin & Winnie
5. Thanksgiving break

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

1.) I got the anniversary Loungefly backpack of my favorite character. 2.)I‘m coordinating with the adults in the family to get these Link Squad toys for my son that he loves! 3.) Baby E tried Eggnog for the first time… safe to say he loved it! 4.) My oldest F was in the Veterans Day Parade with her Girl Scout troop. 5.) And we celebrated both my girls, dolls birthdays. 🥰💛

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. College kid home to regroup 🍌
2. Excellent apple pie bars 🍎
3. Holiday trash reads 🎄
4. Napping with Kevin 🐈‍⬛
5. October temp circles done and attached! ⭕️
6. Two family dinners in one week! 😘

Thanks for the tag @Kshakal all please join, I‘m late to the party!
5.

It‘s been a week full of treats for me after some disappointing in law/extended family stress 1. A new Free People stripey top 2. New wreath Lego kit to start today or tomorrow 3. Christmas wreaths from Costco bought and hung 4. I finished my ‘books are my passion‘ set and I love it so 5. All of my holds came in and I‘m so excited to read all of them #5joysfriday

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday

1. Kitty snuggles
2. Roses
3. My favorite restaurant reopening in a new location, super close to me!
4. Cookie decorating
5. Only 4 more school days until thanksgiving break!!

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot