Dinner Last Night: Summer Vegetable Curry Soup

I'm always looking for a way to eat a healthy meal full of veggies without the same ol' heaping plateful of veggies every time. And then, voila I found this, summer vegetable curry soup. This soup was delicious! Full of veggies, vitamins, and with a pleasant kick of spice. And to make matters even better, aside from dicing and chopping, it was easy to make!

To make this dinner stretch into lunch for the next day, I made some jasmine rice and poured the remaining portion over it, creating a simple next-day curry.

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Friday Night Lights

In an effort to save money and make a conscious decision to watch less TV, my fiance and I recently cancelled our comcast subscription. No more cable, no more DVR, but it hasn't been all that bad, honestly. Instead, we bought a Roku, a small device that enables streaming from netflix, hulu, and the like. This is how, during our commitment to watch less TV, my fiance and I discovered Friday Night Lights.

The first episode is good, then the second, third, fourth...and while I haven't been a fan from the beginning, we quickly joined the Friday Night Lights cult. This show is truly addicting, I tell you! I mean, who couldn't love Eric and Tammy Taylor? Matt Saracen, Jason Street, and Tim Riggins (insert girlish swoon here), if boys had looked like that at my high school!

Truth be told, we've emotionally invested in this show, you'd think we'd been to Dillon, Texas! So despite our ploy to watch less TV, I think we've ended up investing more time following this series via roku. I guess our plan backfired, huh? All in all, I'd say it was worth it because it's now one of my all time favorite shows. You'd be surprised how many conversations we still have about the Taylor's, Buddy Garrity, and the panther gang.
Texas Forever.

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PB & J

I brought PB & J for lunch today, I am such a teacher. But it's nothing compared to these PB & J ice cream sandwiches, sweetened up by a layer of raspberry sorbet. Can you spell YUM?
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First Day of School!

It's that time of year again, the first day of school! I'm amazed how quickly the beginning of the school year snuck up on us. It feels like we just celebrated the first day of summer! Phew, how time flies! Everything is ready to go; name tags printed, bulletin boards repapered, desks aligned, first day scavenger activities prepared...now it's just time to wait for my new class to arrive! The first day always flies by in a fit of craziness, but so far it looks like it's shaping up to be a great year!

Happy first day of school!

The Hunger Games

The start of the gripping trilogy is officially now a movie. Can't wait!

Happy Friday

Happy Friday! I've been readying my classroom for the first day of school all day, everyday this past week, and phew I'm exhausted already (and the students haven't even arrived yet!).

This weekend, my fiance and I were scheduled to take a trip to the lake with friends, but had to opt out! With the wedding a month and a half to way, we've got a million and a half wedding errands that take precedent - on top of painting our living room! Should be a busy busy weekend! Happy Labor Day weekend y'all!

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The Kind Thing

Do you pay it forward? You know, when you receive a random act of kindness, you pay it forward to someone else - spreading positivity and kindness like wildfire? For all you Seattleites out there, Do the KIND Thing follows the pay it forward model, empowering people to make the world a little kinder and the local community in the process. Pretty cool, right?

Here's the scoop: each month, KIND challenges a new city to carry out a specific act of kindness. The Seattle challenge is to pass along a book, newspaper, or magazine they've enjoyed to someone else on Tuesday, September 6th (our first day of school, how fitting), so that another person may enjoy it too! That's pretty easy, don't you think?

Then, if enough people sign up to complete this mission, KIND pays it forward with one BIG KIND Act for the local community, teaming up with Whole Kids Foundation - which in Seattle is building a sustainable garden for a Seattle school, meant to educate and empower children to make more nutritious choices.

So check it out and if you're able, do the KIND thing, pass on a book to keep the spread the kindness going!