Lost With a Cause

Unfortunately, I have kind of fallen off the grid lately thanks to school starting back up. With that said, a few other cool things have been going on, and I finally have a second to stop, breathe, have a cup of coffee, and catch up with all of you lovely people.

Chiefs season is officially underway with pre-season match ups! As we all know, this is my favorite time of year, and we won the first game!

On August 12th, my old high school hosted a charity basketball game in honor of the old coach who was recently diagnosed with progressive cancer. It was quite the night! There were hundreds of people there and they raised over $10,000 at the door alone! It was such a cool thing to see an educator be honored by former students, colleagues, and people from the community with such an enormous amount of support. 

Last Wednesday was 26th birthday. It was fantastic day spent mostly with my family, making it even better. My mom bought me a Keurig and a supply of coffee so that I can make coffee for my morning commutes, and I am in love. Ben and I also made our biggest purchase since moving in together and invested in this gorgeous 49" beauty of a big-screen television! It's perfect, and we got it just in time for Criminal Minds to be added to Netflix streaming!

School started for Cameron R-1 on August 14th, and it has been a whirlwind. Between student schedule changes, teaching schedule changes, and a million notifications to send out to my caseload students, things have been crazy busy. Even so, Ben and I carved out some time to take a quick trip to South Bend for the weekend to see his mom show her pottery in their annual art festival, Art Beat.

It was a quick weekend, but we had a great time visiting with everyone. Plus Ben's mom gave me this GORGEOUS hand-thrown bowl for my birthday!!

Here are a few other random shots from the recent weeks: mama bought me a new phone case, I worked my first concession stand at a Cameron football game as co-junior class sponsor, and I had a yummy Saturday morning breakfast and watched Secret Life of the American Teenager because I'm an adult.

Chiefs play the Vikings tonight at Arrowhead; I'm looking forward to spending time with my favorite people. Tomorrow will assumingly be filled with resting and special services paperwork. Catch y'all on the flip!