5 for Friday!

It's Friday again!  Time to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching!!

1.  Corn Fields

When I was little, I secretly always wanted to be a pioneer girl.  Seriously - there was something so charming to me about simpler times - and come on, who didn't read Sarah Plain and Tall or Little House on the Prairie when they were growing up and maybe want to live that life? (It's this secret side of me that gets super excited each fall to go apple picking and preserve things!)  Anyway, I'm sure I would have long forgotten this dream, except my parents live in as rural of an area as you can get in Boston - and each time I go to visit, I drive through this corn field and laugh.  It's honestly one of my favorite sights of summer - tall corn stalks blowing in the wind.  If I ever had the courage, I'd pack up my family and move west.  But for now, these trips through the corn will have to do!

2.  Yogurt Treats

I recently discovered this yummy combination.  Sometimes I have it for breakfast, sometimes for a dessert - I only use a tablespoon of chocolate chips (so I can tell myself it's healthy!) and this coffee flavored yogurt is one of the only Greek yogurts I've found that I like.  

3.  Play Dough

While on a walk with my son yesterday (keeping up with my #StepItUp goals!) we stopped at CVS.  The summer stuff is ALL ON SALE (which I hate because it's still summer!!!) and on one of the shelves I found these little packages of Play Dough.  I have only just introduced play dough to my little one, and although most of it ends up in his hair/mouth/eyes/on the floor, I figure he'll get better with practice.  And these seemed pretty PERFECT to take with us to restaurants or other places (side note: I never worked in the restaurant industry, but my sister did.  I always try to have something to distract my little guy while we're out, and I am careful to help clean up any extra mess he makes.  So if the play dough were to end up on the floor - we wouldn't leave until I'd picked it up.)  I'm not even ashamed to say that I bought their whole supply - they were on sale, so were less than $1.00 a piece.  Now I have a drawer full of them... 

4.  Bedding

If you've read my blog before, you know I'm having so much trouble deciding on bedding for our new bed!  Right now we're using our old duvet and quilt - which are queen sized - too small for our king bed.  We end up fighting over them in the middle of the night, and have resorted to having "private blanket parties" (my husband's term).  I'm trying to fix this problem QUICKLY!  I want our room finished and I'm tired of fighting over blankets in the middle of the night.  :)  The most recent duvets I've found came today from Target.  I really want something mostly grey and white... Here they are:

The one on the right is black and white, not grey and white, and the one with the red in it also has a light sea foam green in some of the flowers as well.  Anyone have any input???  Should I keep looking, or are these good?

5.  Lunch

I'm having lunch today with a sweet teaching friend of mine who I haven't seen since school got out almost a month and a half ago.  We live less than 2 miles from each other but have just been so busy we haven't had a chance to catch up!  I'm really excited to see her!!!

5 for Friday!

Happy Friday!!!  During the school year, I do love Fridays.  We have a lot going on in school, and we always try to have some family movie night at home.  During the summer though, it doesn't feel all that much different than any other day of the week.  Sometimes I forget what day of the week it is - which isn't a bad problem to have at all!  If it weren't for my tutoring jobs, I'd go through the whole summer not knowing the date.

Today I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for 5 for Friday!

1.  New Rugs!

I have a weird aversion to buying rugs (and curtains) for my home.  I always love how they look at other people's homes, and my mother is ALWAYS telling me I need curtains and rugs, but I never can make myself buy them.  I don't know why it's so hard for me - everything is returnable and replaceable.  If I brought it home and hated it, I could always return it!  This week though, I decided that our kitchen floor needed a rug to break up all the hardwood.  I spent several days forcing myself to look at lots of stores, and yesterday I found this at Target.  

I loved it.  I think it's a perfect combination of my favorite decorating colors and it goes well with everything I already have in my kitchen.  I ended up getting 2 of them to help fill the space and I'm so glad I did!  (So is my son... I keep finding him lying down on the rugs pressing his face into the soft material.  Maybe that's a sign we need more carpets in our lives?)

2.  "Cheers"

My little guy learned how to "cheers" this week.  Actually he's been doing it for a couple weeks but this week he started saying "deers" when clinking his glass to ours.  It's so stinking cute... I find myself carrying around my water bottle all day so he can cheers me.  

3.  A Giveaway!

I'm joined up with My Carolina's Classroom for a giveaway!  If you want to find out more about what I contributed, head here.  While you're checking it out, be sure to follow my blog - and hers too!  There are a lot of amazing things included in the giveaway, including over $100 worth of TpT products AND a $25 Amazon gift card!

4. Big Brother!!

I've been so busy this week I haven't seen ANY of the episodes!  Luckily, I've also been to busy to keep up with my social media accounts (except for Instagram, so THANK YOU to anyone who watches for not sharing details!) so I have no idea what's been happening.  Once I've posted this blog, I'm hoping to turn it on!  I can clean and unpack while it's playing in the background... I hope!

5.  My New Office!

I don't have any pictures of this, but my husband has been busily trying to get our new office unpacked and organized.  We've never had an office before, and we're both SO excited about it!  The room isn't that big, but we managed to get a huge bookshelf (the UNdecorated one that I'll tell you all about this week on Monday Made It) in there along with our desk.  We're both huge readers, so our shelf is crammed full of books.  My husband was actually devastated that both shelves didn't fit in there... I was secretly glad so I could use the other one in the baby's room and jazz it up!  Anyway, our office will be great once it's done.  I'm excited to have a place to hang my diplomas and to keep all my TpT stuff out of our living room!  It used to take over my life like you can't believe... or actually I you can.  I've seen lots of office/living room pictures on Instagram that look JUST like mine!

Happy Friday everyone!