Double C, Double G, O

Well friends, SUMMER IS HERE!! Thank goodness, it was time for the school year to be done and I am so glad to be at home sweet home again with a full plate for the summer! After one day of my job, the signs of it being a fantastic summer are clear, but I will save summer stories for another post :) So Double C, Double G, O you ask? Well, here it goes. My summer thus far.

Cookies. I got home and was absolutely yearning to bake! Although I loved living in Kappa for so many reasons, the downfall was no kitchen! (Yes, technically we could use the kitchen for our own use, but it just wasn't the same as cooking in your own house). My speciality, or so I think, is chocolate chip cookies. I have been told they are some of the best CC cookies ever, but really, it's the nestle tollhouse recipe..for real. The key to my success is the brown sugar. Brown sugar is always meant to be packed, and that is how my chocolate chip cookies turn out so well. As you eat each cookie, you can taste the brown sugar melting in your mouth, and there is seriously nothing better. Yummy...I want to go make some more now! (Thank you JC, Kim, Brandon, AJ, Danielle, and Cameron for eating them all already!)

Children's books. Oh yes, of course we all know I am obsessed with children's books, but this weekend was the opportunity of a LIFETIME! Scholastic Books has a warehouse, and a few times every year they have a trunk sale. My mom and I went this weekend and it is seriously a teacher's heaven. Aisles, upon aisles of books all categorized by genre, grade level, and so much more. I could have spent hundreds of dollars here, seriously, but I limited myself. However, I did get the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books (5 of them) for $20 which is unheard of! Miss Martin (my 4th grade practicum teacher) said the kids LOVE these books, so I went for it and bought them all. I am sure they will get some good use someday!

My children's book colletion keeps growing by the day it seems, so I am beginning to need more space to store them all! Just give me a stinking classroom and that would totally fix my problem, now wouldn't it?!?!

Garage Sales. Holla, these are the best things ever for so many reasons! They are great for furniture, household items, teaching supplies, books, seriously you name it, I guarantee there is a garage sale that has it! Katie Wiz and I ventured to garage sales on Saturday (which by the way, I LOVE THIS WOMAN. She is heading to Colorado in a week for her summer internship and I am so proud of her and excited to see the great things God is going to do in her life in Colorado...I know she will be a light to everyone she comes in contact with and those kiddos in Colorado are lucky little campers!! Anway, I found some great board games for my future classroom (Guess Who and Connect Four for a BUCK each) and Katie made me buy this little teacher apple to set on my desk (not necessary, but she said it was a teacher staple and it WAS necessary that I have one). I also got some childrens books for 25 cents each and a beautiful white frame for 50 cents (I think white is going to be a color for my room next year so this frame works perfectly!) Basically, garage sales are great, and you should go and check them out if you haven't already!

GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy cow, this is my "Passion Topic" of the week. (For you, Shelbi :) Okay, so I did theatre and choir in high school and have pretty much sworn it off since then, however Glee is something that a former theatre nerd would love. I have become slightly obsessed with this show in the past week, and have watched almost an entire season of it in a mere 6 days. It is a fun, uplifting show, with some dramatic twists that will get you hooked if you start watching it. The dancing and singing will BLOW YOUR MIND, and Lea Michele (the lead) starred on freaking Broadway for years, so hello, go watch it if you haven't already!!!

And last, but certainly not least, O stands for organizing. Anyone who has left for college and then returns home for the summer understands what I am about to say. You come home with so much crap, you don't even know how it all fit in your small dorm room or wherever you lived. I had a massive heap of stuff in my room for like three days before I even attempted to sort through it all (I was preoccupied watching Glee, duh). Once I got started, I GOT STARTED. I went through old clothes, letters, books, everything and tried to organize it all. My room now looks back to normal, and just delightfully clean. I can actually live in there now which is refreshing :)

This has been a long post, but hopefully insightful. Next time, I hope to have some great kid stories, and an update about Cameron's possible-internship (he should find out about it this Thursday. Continuous prayers are welcome, he really really wants this, and frankly, I want it too :)

Until then,

Brittany