TGIF. DUH.

It's been one heCK of a week, let me just say, and I am soooo glad it's FRIIIIDAYYYYY. Today was a bit of a long day at school because my mentor teacher wasn't there, and it was just me and a sub (who was a bit... reserved...). Needless to say, the kids were cuhhhhrayyyyyzaaayyyy! I've been feeling pretty confident and proud about the work I've been doing as a student teacher, and I feel like I've gotten the kids to respect me and everything for the most part, but... today... wow. They were just bouncing off the walls and thought they could talk to me like I was doo doo on the bottom of their shoe! Uhhh, come again? You said WHAT? How 'bout we go back and try that again. K. Thanks. I mean, sheesh. This isn't the first time my mentor teacher's been gone, but this IS the first time the kids went bonkers when she left. No worries, though, homegirl did her best to DID keep those kiddos in check. Mm hmm.

We've been working lots at our house, too! I've been going back and forth about whether or not to post pictures of our progress but have decided that I think I'll just wait until we're completely done with everything. I think it'll be more exciting that way! RIGHT?! Right. :) That way, the "before" and "after" pics will be, like, way dramatic, and not just, Oh. Yeah. Seen that already. Moving on. Recently, we've been working on and/or finishing:

• Getting our granite installeddddd!!!
• Painting all the rooms in the house. Still waiting to do the last couple when other things (below) are complete.
• Staining our cabinets. (OH EM GEE. One of the things I'm MOST excited to see at the end!)
• Tearing down a wall in the master bath (so that the shower appears more open).
• Retiling the master shower and bath tub.
• Knocking down the fur-down (piece of wall/ceiling that sort of juts out. Idk. Apparently, it was much cooler to have back in the day. When this house was first built. Now? Not so much. Outdated. See ya!) in the master and guest bathrooms. (Also totally opens up the rooms.)
• Retexturing the bathroom walls/ceilings (after knocking down the previously mentioned walls).
• Painting and putting up molding throughout the house.

Now, I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting... because the list is pretty much never-ending... but, those are some pretty big things we've done or are currently doing. I'm SO pumped and ready for it to all be doneski.

Hope everyone has a ballin' weekend! Hollaaaaa for an extra hour of sleeeeeeeep! :) LOVE LOVE.

Xoxo,

H