Memories and sweet words.

The other day, I stumbled upon some love notes Taylor wrote me while we were dating/engaged.

They were the sweetest notes in the world.

And it made me tear up a little while reading them.

Any of the scoffers who were baffled that I was engaged after dating a boy for 2.5 months...all they'd have to do was read these notes...and then they would instantly understand!

Today, I am grateful for memories and sweet words. 

Puckered lips

Every morning before I leave for school, I climb back into bed to kiss Taylor goodbye.

Right as he hears me climbing into bed, his lips immediately "pucker" for a kiss.

It always makes me laugh.

Sometimes I wait to see how long his half-asleep self will keep his lips puckered before I finally do kiss him goodbye.

So far, the longest he's laid there (keep in mind, he's half asleep, eyes closed) with his puckered lips, waiting for me to kiss him, is 48-hippopotamus-seconds.

This is easily my favorite part of every day.

Winter time.

This was our dinner tonight.

Yummy soup in a yummy bread bowl.

Winter is upon us.

A super glue story

On Sunday morning, I was teasing Taylor relentlessly.

All in good fun, of course.

Even though he pretended to be sad (puppy face and all), we were both laughing.

Then, right as we were about to leave church, Taylor pointed to a bottle of super glue on the counter and asked, "Hey, will you pick that up for me?"

Me: "Why...?"

Taylor: "My hands are full."

His hands were full, but I was more inquiring what he wanted to use it for.

So, I picked it up for him.

He started to unbutton his dress shirt, and said, "Here...I just need some right here..."

I just looked at him with a sincerely confused face.

Then he pointed at his heart and said, "To put my broken heart together."

Haha! I still laugh just thinking about it.

I was laughing so hard, I had tears.

This boy is so dang clever.

He is always keeping me laughing.

At least now you know the cure to a broken hurt. ;)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

A post of the whole day will follow!

But here's a picture of me and my love on this special day.

This Thanksgiving is with the Gilb fam.

Happy turkey day!

today=my friday

Last day of school for the Thanksgiving break.

I'm excited for the long week!

I have lots of things planned.

And the best part is that TayRay gets the rest of the week off too!

I woke him up before I left this morning and sang to him: 

"Today is our Friday, Friday, Friday!

Wake up, wake up, wake up!"

Then I tried to pull him out of bed.

I was just so excited.

He laughed, but didn't get out of bed.

Ha.

In approximately one hour I will be officially celebrating the start of this holiday!
Hooray for (fake) FRIDAY!

Incentive Trial

I tried something new with my students this term.

Instead of having "punishments" for bad behavior,

I have been using "incentive/rewards" for good behavior.

This is what I said at the beginning of term to my challenging classes:

"If we can get everything done that we need to and if we can stay on schedule, then the day before Thanksgiving break, I will allow you to watch a movie.

This means that if I have to stop every five seconds to tell you to be quiet...you've lost the movie day."

I was so surprised how well it worked!

All I had to say when they got riled up was:

"How much does your movie day mean to you?"

And then they would quieter faster than you could believe.

Today is their movie day.

And they SO earned it.

Which makes me not feel bad about losing a day.

Because we are AHEAD of schedule!

Whoo!

Incentives work!

I brought about six school-appropriate movies for them to vote on and choose to watch.

Why did I bring so many?

So I wouldn't be stuck watching the same movie four times today.

BUT, ironically, all three classes have voted on the same movie.

Blindside.

Ha.

Guess my plan didn't work too well after all... ;)

Oh well.

I'm happy.

They're happy.

It's a good day.