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June CURRENTLY!

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Hey hey all! I’m linking up with Farley for the first time in a LONG time for this month’s Currently!!

I just LOVE listening to the quiet of the am.  Whether it’s summer, back to school, a Tuesday, or a Saturday morning, I am happiest, most calm, yet have the most energy and inspiration in the early morning! Are you a morning person, too? This morning person is off to get some coffee and to sit down and read through all of the already linked up #2getherwearebetter posts that went live TODAY all about HOME OFFICE SPACES!! 
You can come read about mine HERE and then hop through and/or link up to the linky!!
I am LOVING that it’s just now the 2nd day of June and I’m already on summer break! This is the earliest I ever remember being out for summer, and, despite the chilly weather so far, it’s LOVELY to have no alarms 🙂  The last days of school were CRAZY TOWN, but I loved having a few quiet minutes with my kiddos to share the poem with them that I wrote telling each of them what I’ll miss about them.  I write my class a goodbye poem each year, mentioning them each by name and including the year’s dearest memories.   Do you have an end of the year tradition that you like to do on the last day of school??
Right now, too, I’m thinking about my PRIORITIES on my to do list for today.  I have LISTS for my lists,  and those lists of lists aren’t always pretty, but when I sit down to map out my must dos of the day…. I like to make it pretty! And it’s SO easy to do that with my new stationary and list pads from Creative Paper Collection!! I had to have them literally the minute they launched in her store!! 🙂 LIST MAKER LOVE!
My want for this month kind of makes me chuckle… I want to find time to relax today.  ha.  Does ANYONE else find this hard to do?!?!  Especially RIGHT after the end of the school year.  I am in HIGH gear and I want to just go go go to tackle my to dos now that the school year is done and I don’t have lesson planning and grading, etc. in my way!! ANYONE?!? My first day of summer, you ask?! I spent it hanging up my new alphabet! 
. . .and I was perfectly content with that!! . . .But today I really WANT to find time to relax.  I really.  really.  do.  I don’t have crazy amounts of faith in myself to make that happen…but we’ll see. 🙂
Oh lord.  my need? I NEEEEEED to get back into a workout routine!! I have been SLACKING in the workout department BIG time!! I mean, I’ll find a random Saturday or Tuesday here or there to head to Zumba but GOODNESS I have fallen off the wagon…both the workout AND diet wagon.  So.  far. off.  the wagon.  #ilikepizza #andsugar #ineedanintervention
SOOOO I’ m posting this NEED of mine in an honest confession kind of way to call myself OUT for falling off the wagon and am starting my 3 Weeks No Cheats TODAY. . . 
Check my INSTAGRAM account later today to see what my 3 weeks no cheats will be!! 🙂
And summer lovin?! YES INDEED.  
I want to read.
I want to reorganize {at school and home and my life a bit}
I want to create {HUGE plans that I’ve put aside will be front and center this summer!}
I want to smile.  I’ve had an up and down kind of year… and {after an upcoming surgery this week that I’m a nervous wreck about} it’s time for me to smile.  So, smile, I will. 🙂
Happy Tuesday friends!! 🙂

Comments

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    My First Grade Happy Place says

    I am so glad that someone else has "lists for their lists!" I am going to have order some of those Creative Clips paper goodies! There is truly something therapeutic about Papermate Flair Pens and making a list! Those are my favorite pens, i'm also loving the Frixion Erasable Gel Pens too! I take my pens a little too seriously!

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    Mrs D's Corner says

    My husband makes fun of me because if I wake up at 6am on the weekends, I get up. The silence at 6am is like nothing else… he has no idea how much work I can get accomplished from 6am until he wakes up!

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    Liveloveserveteach says

    I also ordered Krista's weekly planner paper. Mine's not here yet but should be here this week! I can't wait! I have to say that parenthood has made a morning person out of me. 5:40am this morning! That's what a good cup of coffee is for, right? Can't wait to peek at all the office spaces. We move back to the states this Fall/Winter and one of my must-haves in our new home will be an office for me! Can't wait to get tons of great ideas. Enjoy some down time!
    Joya 🙂

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    Heidi Neels says

    Yes. Yes. Yes. You need to find time to relax and not feel GUILTY about it! It's so easy to feel a run down or get burned out on things as a teacher. Take care of you! Complete a few things off your list (because you won't be able to relax unless you do) and then sit outside with a drink! Then complete a few more…
    Heidi Neels
    Flipping for First

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    Mrs 3rd Grade says

    I am totally like you and want to be in my room working away! We had to move classrooms so right now my stuff is in a HUGE mess!! I am a night owl though, not an early riser to get my work done. I rise early, but only because my sweet babies come to get me!! I hope that your surgery goes well friend!

    Mrs. 3rd Grade