i'm famous!

Today in our 2nd grade team planning meeting we were talking about what we would need for the baby shower for a teammate. Stacey was looking on Pinterest for ideas and said "this is so cute!" And read off an invite to Courtney for a baby shower for Rebecca. I immediately said that is cute, I also totally made that for my sisters baby shower. She was just looking up baby shower ideas and found my pic for her book themed baby shower. I'm so famous! Ok, I'm so famous on Pinterest, with no one knowing who I actually am. So maybe I should say the baby shower I threw is so famous! Whatever, I'll take it.

houston shenanigans

A few weekends ago I went home for a friends wedding, and a best friends 30th birthday party. It was such a fun weekend! It started with seeing Holy Ghost at Fitzgeralds. Now growing up in Houston, and my friends always going there for concerts in high school, I don't know how I had never been. But I guess better late than never! If you haven't heard Holy Ghost, you should, especially when in the mood to dance. It's ok to do it by yourself, I have been known to have dance parties all by myself.

The next night I headed downtown for Sara's wedding! It was so pretty, and food was amazing! They also win for best grooms cake ever!

When I left the wedding I headed straight to Jillian's house for her joint dirty thirty birthday party with Katy featuring the best fashion from the 80's and 90's. Because I was coming from a wedding I had to plan in advance and I had a bag of clothes in my car. At every stoplight I took something off (heels, jewelry) and put something on (splatter paint shirt, leg warmers, etc.). I can only imagine what people next to me thought seeing me frantically trying to change clothes before the lights turned. 

It was a super fun night with all of my Houston peeps, celebrating my bestie! Enjoy our fashion show below.

Such a fun weekend home!

what are you?

I wore this insanely awesome wig (borrowed from a friend who said I had to keep it because "she would never look as good in it as I do.") to school for Halloween. 

I wasn't trying to be anyone, I just wanted to hear this awesome wig. There was some debate among the kids what I was supposed to be.

• a princess
• an old lady
• a weirdo (yes, kids asked me if I was these things)
• Dolly Parton (I wish I had thought of that! I might have to be oldschool Dolly next Halloween)
• a peacock

Happy (belated) Halloween everyone!

personal life

We are working on making connections while we read and I was making one to the book we were reading and said I brought something from home when I went to college so I wouldn't feel so homesick.

Kid 1: Where are you know?

Me: What do you mean?

Kid 1: Where do you live?

Kid 2: Don't give out personal information Ms. Ewing!

Thanks for looking out for me kid!

hands

Kid: Oh no! My hands look like an old lady! Look!

Me: What do you mean?

Kid: Just look. They look like an old lady! They're all crinkly. 

Me: If you think your hands look old, I'm worried what you would say about my hands.

Kid: (after washing hands a few minutes later.) Ms. Ewing, look. They look young again! phew!

it's the governments fault

Me: (talking to another adult before Young Guns started) I got my flu shot yesterday and it hurt way more than usual. Have you gotten your flu shot yet?

Kid: It's be cause the government is closed down. They put weird stuff in the shot. You probably should have waited until they started working again.

You've been warned by a 5th grader. You're welcome.

what's a mule?

As I'm reading a book, we're looking for words we can't read or don't know what they mean and work through figuring out what they mean to help become better readers.

Me: Does anyone know what a mule is? Is says he's riding a mule.

Kid 1: It's a half horse, half donkey.

Kid 2: Shouldn't it be called a honkey then? Just say honkey whenever you read it. It makes more sense.