*We spent most of yesterday at Devon’s Mom’s house for an early birthday celebration for me.  It became tradition that she made her kids her famous paella for their birthdays and the past couple of years, she’s made it for mine too, which is very sweet of her.  It is also unbelievably delicious.  Between that, …

*First and foremost……on Thursday, I accepted an offer for a new job for the next school year!  I haven’t signed the contract yet just because the president of the school is on vacation for a week, but I’ve already got an email address, I’ve met most of the people I’ll be working with and everything. …

*Why yes, I am alive.  I promise. *I was kind of throwing myself a pity party last week.  You know those times where you just feel completely “blah” about all things? That was pretty much my life last week.  I visited my school for the final time the day it closed, which I don’t think …

*I feel like I could complain about how hot it is, but while it’s hot here, all of life isn’t actually melting like it is on the western side of the country.  So, if you’re in like Arizona or California, my deepest sympathies, that kind of heat is insane, I’m sure.   *You know those …

*Yeah, I know it isn’t the weekend, but I figure I can get away with it, seeing how bad I’ve been at keeping a regular blog schedule lately. *My whole schedule and body seems to have been thrown off with summer starting this year. I’m sure some of it is stress-related from school closing and dealing with …

*Devon is making ribs for dinner.  I’m so ridiculously excited, I can barely sit still.  They’re AMAZING!! *If you saw my Instastories the other night, you’ll see that I’m playing around with the idea of going low-carb.  Not no carb or no carbs on certain days or whatever, just being cognizant of the amount of …

*I legitimately cannot believe it’s Sunday night already. I feel like I’ve been going at like top speed since about 7am Thursday morning, which is probably only slightly kidding.   *Thursday we did a Field Day for the girls since graduation was the next day.  That and we also needed use a kind of “chill” …