 Good morning guys. It is Monday, November 26th, and I am sick as a dog. I got here at 6.40 like I normally do. This past weekend Thanksgiving weekend, see Friday night, Saturday and all day yesterday, I was suffering from the stomach flu. I never threw up but I had all of the other symptoms of the stomach flu and last night I slept none at all. I have a splitting headache. I have no energy. I feel disgusting. So I put in for a sub to show up at 9.30 the bell just ring. I have to go get my kids but I put in for a sub to show up at 9.30. Hopefully she will show up and I can just go home and sleep and sleep this off and I need to hydrate because I feel just awful. But somebody did show up this morning and left a cute little note and brought us a tree. I didn't know they brought trees. Anyway, so I'm gonna go pick up the kids and we're going to see our reaction of the elf and then like I said I'm leaving early. I'm gonna go home and just rest because I yesterday and Saturday had to take care of cash while sick. So I'm gonna go home and just hide in my room all day and let Scott take care of the baby. So I'll see you guys in a minute. Good morning guys. Happy Tuesday. So I know that I ended yesterday really abruptly and it's because a lot of things happened. I did end up going home. My substitute arrived right as I came back from dropping the kids off-ish and I was able to get out of there and get home and good thing because I ended up feeling worse yesterday than I did all of the other three days and I think it's just because I had a combination of stomach ache plus dehydration because I hadn't drank enough water the day before. So yeah, so I'm feeling a lot better today. I have no headache. I still feel a little bit nauseous. I have a little bit of pain. I'm definitely very weak. I think that I've lost a total of nine pounds throughout this flu and I will tell you guys I did not throw up one time during this whole flu. So you can do that. You can do the math. I didn't eat a lot because my appetite was just very suppressed. My stomach was very crampy. It was crampy and nauseous which was the extent of my pain and then the adding in yesterday's headache and I also had a fever yesterday and all I did yesterday was lay in bed all day and I felt worse. But I did manage to hydrate a lot yesterday and rest. So I think that's why my body feels so good today. Hey guys, so I'm in the classroom. It wasn't left too bad in condition. I noticed that my sub did find my sub tub though and it looks like she pulled some activities from that. I'm not sure when she did that in the day but I don't care because when there's a substitute my whole mindset is survive. So I came in this morning to find our elf. It looks like her and Darth Vader didn't get along too well this morning or last night whenever she got here because it looks like he has put her on the clock. Hopefully she doesn't fall off of there and that would be traumatic. That clock isn't right even. It doesn't even have a battery in it. Interesting though Darth Vader scoundrel. So like I said I'm just gonna take it easy today. I'm gonna just kind of sit and you know do as minimum as I can just so that I can really heal and get better. So I'm just collecting all of the work that I assigned yesterday and I'm gonna sit and look at it before I move on. Today is already prepped and ready to go so I don't really need to worry about that. So I just walked into my classroom and it looks like our elf and Darth are getting along a little bit better because they're both over here back in their places. She is tucked into the Christmas tree. How cute. She must have been cold or something last night when she got here. Who knows. But I am going to get set up for the day. I need to change my plans because I just decided that I was gonna teach making conclusions or drawing conclusions instead of what I was going to do. So I'm gonna change my plans up and plan a book. I want to show you guys my cute nails. So these are Impress. Press on nails. I love them. They're so practical. What is for breakfast today? Yes. Turkey ham and cheese breakfast sandwich. Okay so I didn't go to Starbucks like I said I was going to because I was running a smidge later than normal. So I decided to go ahead and just come to school and just eat whatever they're serving. So ham and cheese breakfast sandwich. That's gonna be ham cheese and egg. And then for lunch today is it says cheese pizza but they usually serve like a bean and cheese burrito or grilled cheese with whatever it is that's on for the day. So I'm just gonna eat school lunch today. No big deal. I have to eat and yeah I'm just gonna do that. Yeah I'm gonna get set up and then I will catch up with you guys. Oh I need to change that. Maybe I'll think of something I don't know. I need to change that soon. Good morning guys. Happy Thursday. I cannot believe this week is already almost over. I think it's probably because I was not there on Monday but this week feels really short and it's going by very fast. I'm super excited about my lunch today. I ended up packing a lot of really good food a lot of healthy food and it's like the first day since I got sick that I'm actually eating like normal. Yesterday I've logged on my phone so I don't know if I'm gonna use that footage in this vlog because it was kind of boring. I might just do like a couple highlights like show you guys where my elf was and stuff like that. But yesterday by the way I am hands free right now. I don't know how long this will last because it's just propped up on my dash but at least till I get out of the neighborhood. But yesterday I had to go shopping for my secret Santa because a few of us teacher tubers all the best ones. All my favorites. Darren, Shelly, Casey Morris, Jennifer from Genuine Teaching. I guess I should probably tell you their channel names too. That would be kind of me. Who else Kate the sleepy teacher? I'll have to find the list. But anyway I had to go shopping for my secret Santa yesterday because I've already been collecting things but I needed to get a few more things because there is a list of rules that I have to follow and like gifts I have to give on certain days even though we all just open it on one in one sweep but yeah I had to go shopping for them yesterday and we didn't have any groceries so I had to get school lunch breakfast and lunch we had like literally no food my husband and I decided we were just gonna make whatever was in the freezer on Tuesday evening so that was like french fries and pierogies so I literally had no food yesterday so I ended up eating all school lunch which was fine it was probably good to like catch me up on eating real or food but I'm happy to be eating healthy again I think all together including my flu I've lost a total of 10 pounds so that's super exciting people can't really tell some people might you can kind of tell in my face I don't have as much as like a double chin but yeah I'm I'm thrilled to be losing some weight and I would like to get my butt in the gym to you know continue doing that so anyway I'm at the main road so I'm gonna turn this camera off and I'll see you guys in a minute hey guys so I am now at work clearly oh there she is there's ginger so I thought I would share with you guys what I have in my lunchbox today so for breakfast I am having two scrambled eggs with a sprinkle of cheese I'll also be eating a fire total strawberry yogurt I like these because they have only 11 grams of sugar which is actually a lot of sugar but when you're not really eating a lot of carbs all day you need sugars and they have a lot of protein in them which is good for me then I will also be enjoying a banana for lunch today I will be enjoying some turkey this is just the cracked pepper turkey from boar's head and I just crammed like a bunch of it into this protein container then I will also be enjoying a small spinach salad with Greek not Greek dressing with Caesar dressing on top and I might like shred this and like put it on top I also have some strawberries and then for a snack I packed some rice cakes so these are the only carbs I'm really having today rice cakes with some whipped Greek cream cheese and then I like to put cucumber on top and then for another snack I have an apple so that is my lunch today and my breakfast today and I also have some peanut butter back there for that apple so should be pretty delicious like I've mentioned before part of why I haven't been wanting to like eat a whole ton of food is because I'm taking this five HTTP and this is the natural brand I know a couple of you asked me what brand it was so it's the natural brand and I get it at Sprouts they do have this on Amazon though so you can order this on Amazon and I take the hundred milligrams my goal is to drink three of these every day at least three so I have to drink two at work and then one at home in the evening I'm also drinking some Roybo's chai tea and this is the Tazo organic chai you can kind of see the little thing over here I already threw the thing away but I'm drinking some tea this morning just to get a little bit of caffeine in me but I really want to hydrate so I'm trying to stay away from coffee as much as I can and tea just because I really need to hydrate hey guys so I'm just getting around to eating my yogurt and I went up to ask my principal a question but he wasn't there so I wanted to see if I could add in another bit of time in my day for math just as like a review time and I used to do this program it wasn't like a program it was just I mean it was a program but it was a thing that they did in the district that I worked in when I first started teaching and it was called they called it math review and basically it was a time to review any skills from either the grade previous or the skills that you had been working on that kids needed well review on and what they did was they would have three questions they would solve them and then as the teacher you would walk around and choose three people that had solved them correctly and then you would invite those three people up to the board to then model or explain what they did and every step of the way the kids would they would like star off steps that they did correctly and then they would circle and correct things that they have done incorrectly and then at the end they would do a reflection on why they were successful or why they were not successful and their reflections were like I was successful because I remember to borrow or I was successful because I added correctly or I was successful because you know whatever or I was not successful because I forgot to borrow or I was not successful because I subtracted wrong so it's a way to get kids reflecting on the mistakes that they're making and if they reflect on a one mistake enough they will stop making that mistake so I'm thinking about asking my principal if I can do that in the mornings and then push writing back to the end of the day because I've been doing writing in the morning but I really want to grasp these kids in the morning when they first come in and math is really really important so I'm thinking I might ask him if I can do that and then that way I'll have a whole group math review in the morning I'll have a whole group math lesson and then I'll have a 20-minute math intervention so that I can pull kids in small groups but that will only leave writing 50 minutes of writing at the end of the day and I will have to incorporate language into that but I think that that's gonna be pretty easy for me to do so I'm gonna ask him and see what happens good morning guys I made it to Friday and I'm so excited because today is superhero day at work so I finally get to wear my read like a hero shirt from lipstick and littles I got this shirt like two weeks ago but superhero day was already on the schedule at work and I was like oh I can't wear it until superhero day because I am a ambassador for lipstick and littles which means I help to advertise for lipstick and littles I completely support her I have a coupon code for you guys it just means that I help her promote and because I am an ambassador I get super super extra discounts and so I was able to purchase a bunch of people at my school these t-shirts as well so I got one for all of my teammates I got one for all of the girls that went with me to the avid conference I got one for my instructional aid who comes in during our intervention time and then I got one for our librarian because you can't not get a librarian a read a read t-shirt so anyways I'm on my way to work I have a really busy day ahead of me today my students earned a pizza party because their blurt beans made it to their final goal well not their final goal their second goal their blurt beans made it to their second goal sorry guys it is dark it's 624 in the morning in Arizona and it is dark anyway so at lunchtime I'm going to run the little Caesars and pick up a few pizzas because they wanted a pizza party so we did a vote and it was funny because we're learning about graphing this week and so I made it into like a whole graphing lesson we voted for the type of class party we wanted to have we made a tally chart we made a frequency chart we made a pictograph we made a bar graph and we analyzed the data and we came to the conclusion that a pizza party was the ultimate prize so at lunch I'm going to drive the little Caesars which is really just on the corner pick up the pizzas and then we will have our pizza party at the end of the day so the pizza will have to sit and cool for like an hour and then we'll have our pizza party so I thought about serving it during intervention maybe I should I probably should just do that so that way it's still hot but little Caesars is super cheap if you guys have little Caesars and you do pizza parties for your kids little Caesars is like I think $6 a pizza maybe if that if you do pepperoni if you do cheese I think it's cheaper but yeah my students earned that so we're gonna do that and then what else oh after school today I have to mail my secret Santa gift out to my secret person because I wanted to get there before the deadline which is December 10th and I want it to be there before then and this person lives kind of across the country for me so I want to make sure that I get that out in time I'm gonna move you down from the dash to a more safe place you guys can still see me a little bit but I am safely driving so yeah so I need to go after school and mail that and it's gonna be a pretty big package I have to stop at the Home Depot and buy a box so that I can mail it out because I can't just mail this in like a big envelope like I need an actual big box to send this thing in I went a little crazy I always go over budget but it's just you can't like there's certain things when you see them you're like oh I can't just not get that for them I have to get that for them so anyway that happened my lunch today I brought sushi so I love getting sushi from my grocery store and taking that for lunch because so delicious but I also didn't bring a whole lot of food because we are getting pizza and I have been eating so good for the past like almost month that I feel like I've earned a slice of pizza so I'm gonna do that in fact today the whole day is gonna be a cheat day because my husband and I are going on date night he took the day off and we are gonna go to Topgolf which is a place where you like it's like golf but it's kind of like bowling you're trying to hit targets and we're going with a bunch of his buddies and their girlfriends or wives so that'll be really fun we haven't gone out like that in forever like we've gone to dinner and we've gone to like breakfast and stuff but we haven't really gone on like a really nice fun like adventurous kind of date and we're really excited for that so yeah tomorrow Saturday I have two princess parties to so I think I'm gonna try and take you guys with me and make a video out of it and show you guys behind the scenes of a princess event because a lot of you have asked me about that job and it would be nice to kind of like explain it for you just in a whole video rather than like sneak it so I will have two videos for this week ish like filmed in this week I'll have two videos filmed in this week I don't know if I'll post them like consecutively like back-to-back maybe I'll do like this vlog for this coming Monday and then I'll post the princess one the next week that way maybe I can have a week off from vlogging anyways I will see you guys later our poor elf fell yesterday so I'm interested to see if she's there today number one number two if she is hurt at all so yeah so I'll update you guys when I get to school