Samantha Hebbring

To be honest, I'm ready for Spring Break... and was a little nervous some of my students would have a hard time handling the lack of structure. As I led my class from the obstacle course to the mindfulness station, I was followed by cheerful chatter and whispers of "what do you think we're going to do next? " When we sat down to meditate it was a race to see who could sit the closest to me, and as the guided meditation started, I felt a little head lean in to my shoulder. I'm not perfect in any way, but somehow my students look past that and see only the best in me.

Now that we moved into the new house and I've got a million adult things on my plate like painting, decorating, cleaning, organizing... When i'm being an amazing friend and fiance, i'm definitely less of a rockstar at work... and when i'm killing it as a 2nd Grade teacher, sometimes i'm too tired to have a social life. The only time I feel like I can do all of the things is in the Summer. How do I manage to be moderately good at all of the aforementioned things AT ONE TIME?

Several strange things have happened in 2nd Grade this week, but i'm going to keep this short. So... after a bit of drama and running around the school, my students and I have been gypsying around from classroom to classroom, pretending like we are on an adventure. I put these cookies on a paper plate on my desk and waited for my students to come back for lunch, so we could go spend our afternoon in the library. About ten minutes after getting to the library, I realized I forgot my read aloud book, so I ran back to the classroom to get it.

It's not a race, so don't forget to slow down and live there."I have thought of that simple advice SO many times over the past few weeks. I just want the house to be perfect and "Instagram ready.".. but the truth is, the front room is painted what we have nicknamed "puke pink" and has maroon carpet, the guest bathroom pedestal sink isn't connected to the floor, one kitchen wall is painted black, our master bathroom's shower head is about the height of Derick's chin, the stove almost started the house on fire the first time I tried to make a frozen pizza, closet doors are falling off their tracks left and right... and today when I removed the painters tape from the bathrooms upstairs, I realized i'll never be a professional and that we should have sprung for brand name. My mom's expertise and Painted Fox decor has managed to make even the most fundamentally ugly rooms stylish... and even though I did it badly, I have painted four rooms, a hallway and a stairwell all in the past four days. My other favorite piece of her wisdom is about relationships "Don't do anything you don't want to do for the rest of your life..."