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Yay, it’s May!

Crossing off another thing on my blogging bucket list … linking up for 
Farley’s Currently!



Listening … My husband’s friend is out of town so we’re watching his 2 golden retrievers for the weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE dogs but it’s been 24 hours and there’s tumbleweeds of dog fur already floating around my house!

Loving … I’m so excited to do my first Currently! Yay for blogging!

Thinking … I have lots to do this weekend so I’m going to start by organizing my to do list (so I’m pretty much procrastinating already!)

Wanting … We had really bad storms here today! So bad that our whole school was restricted from moving anywhere (luckily we go to lunch so early that we were still able to get our kids to lunch in the cafeteria). Then, a 1st grade class had to join in with my Kinder class for the afternoon because they evacuated their building since the sidewalks were starting to flood around it. And now I have to get 3 dogs to go outside in this rain, yuck!

Needing … I’m a bookworm and I can usually read a book in 2 days or less if I have nothing else going on. I’ve been so crazy busy recently that I’ve been reading the same book for weeks…it’s killing me! It’s the 3rd book in a series which always seems to take me longer to get through (Shatter Me series – YA dystopia). I’m just hoping to get through it this weekend so I don’t get charged late fees at the library!

Surprise! … I “met” Cassie from Mrs. Thomas’s Class through a Facebook group. She’s super sweet and teaches Kindergarten like me! She wanted her kiddos to have pen pals to write to for the rest of the year so we’ve teamed up. Such a cute idea and my kids love that we have “friends” in Texas!

Click her button to go to her blog!

Happy Friday and happy May! Only 24 days left for me until summer!!

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  1. Giggles at Greene says

    May 2, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    Yay for your first currently!! Love the blog!

    Reply
    • Elyse says

      May 2, 2014 at 10:55 pm

      Thank you, thank you!! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Emily says

    May 2, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    Congrats on your first currently :o) We just had a ton of rain too, but the sun will come out….eventually?! :o)
    Have a great weekend!
    Emily @ Munchkins Inc.

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    • Elyse says

      May 2, 2014 at 10:55 pm

      Maybe the sun'll come out…tomorrow! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Suzy Palmer says

    May 2, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    I love the colors of your blog! Awesome job on your first currently. You'll be hooked! I just started blogging in December and it is fun! I wish we had some rain here in New Mexico. It is soooo dry. Send it my way!

    Reply
    • Elyse says

      May 2, 2014 at 11:14 pm

      I will let the rain know to head west! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Alison Hislop says

    May 2, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    It's so funny that you want it to stop raining and I want it to rain more! We have just come out of summer in Australia and I am loving that it is cooling down! I am a huge procrastinator – which is why I am blog hopping right now!
    Have a great weekend!

    Alison
    Teaching Maths with Meaning

    Reply
    • Elyse says

      May 2, 2014 at 11:15 pm

      Ha! This is just the beginning of a rainy spring and summer here in Florida land!

      Reply
  5. Ashley Toms says

    May 3, 2014 at 1:44 am

    Welcome to currently! I'm from Florida – around the Lake Okeechobee. But then I moved to Tampa. Where are you at?

    Reply
    • Elyse says

      May 4, 2014 at 2:13 am

      No way!! I'm in Tampa too! I'm a Florida girl, born and raised.

      Reply

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