Friday Feature Teacher Update

To all of my lovely followers on TpT and my blog. I am sorry for the hiatus I have taken these past two weeks. I know many of you may be wondering about the Friday Feature teacher blog posts. They will go up starting this Friday. If I have contacted you earlier about being a feature teacher, I will send you an email with new dates.

I have had some events in my life recently that have caused me to step away and focus on family. Thanks for your prayers and grace you have showed me doing this time. I am now back to blogging the blessings.

Preview:

Our first feature teacher is Brenda at Teaching, Dreaming, Learning! Go check out her blog.

Letters to Ms. Hunter

Translation: I wanted to go home, but my Mom told me about After Care. Then it was fun and I went home.



Translation: The Lord is our Shepherd. He takes care of us. He will guide us when we are not listening and in Heaven.

Oh the joy! Steal my heart!

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Day 81

 

Kids Say the Darndest Things

• Miss Hunter, How much do you weigh because you sure don't look fat?


• 7 year old to 4 year old. You shouldn't worry about weighing 50 pounds because I weigh 50 pounds and I am skinny. I mean really skinny.


• Miss Hunter, you should have potato salad for dinner.

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Day 64

 

Dinner Made Easy

I am loving finding new recipes on the Betty Crocker: Dinner Made Easy website.

Tonight's dinner:

Southwestern Cheese Steak

Delicious yet simple

Brown the Steak

Remove Steak from skillet

1.5 cups of Salsa

1.5 cups of water

Combine Salsa and Water in the skillet

Bring to a Boil

Pour in Pasta

Put Meat back into skillet

Cook for 15 minutes

Add 8 ozs of Velveeta Cheese

Mix Well and Serve

Things I love...

Tonight's blog was inspired by our thunderstorm this afternoon. I love a good thunderstorm. Mom taught me as a child to love thunderstorms and not fear them.

Things I Love

Listening to a good thunderstorm

Pouring rain

Curling up in my papasan chair

Bubble Baths

Reading a good book

Romantic movies make me giddy!

Sweet Tea

Rocking on the Front Porch

Curling my hair!

Dancing when the credits roll on a movie

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Dancing with Mom in the kitchen

Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

Target

Polka-Dots

Cookout, Subway, and Chick-Fil-A

Snuggling Up

Jammies

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Day 55

Today's Featured Image is from my front porch in GA!

 

Fighting Germs

Just a quick note, so I don't miss a day.

I left work early this afternoon because I was achy and had a little fever. I am not one to run fever, and if I have a small one it usually means I am coming down with something. I wanted to be safe with the all the kids and try to get rid of all the germs.

I am doctoring up and hoping my fever goes away.

Thanks to Katherine, another teacher, for staying with my kids this afternoon.

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Day 51

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Flyer Sightings in Henderson, NC

 

This was such a sweet sight to me tonight...one of my favorite meals, from one of my favorite places, advertising my favorite camp. God is so good. Colts Kids would not have had this opportunity without it being part of His plan.

This my friends, is blogging the blessings! What a wonderful way to celebrate 50 days of consecutive blogging!

Day 50

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P.S. I did not keep the flyer. I gave it back to be reused!

 

 

World Changers

World Changers is coming to Henderson, NC. I was blessed to sit in on a meeting tonight discussing World Changers coming to Henderson to work on homes through out our community.

About 200 youth from throughout the nation will be staying at Crossroads Christian School and working in homes through the community. Churches are going to sponsor these homes and provide meals for the students.

This is such a great ministry to our area. I am excited for the opportunity CCS will have to minister to these students as they minister to our area. I am already thinking of ways that our camp kids will be able to learn from these students and encourage them.

Here is a link to World Changers if you would like more information about this awesome ministry that works on homes in the US and around the world.

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Day 49

Beautiful Weather and Funny Lady

The beautiful weather always inspires me...

Car Cleaned Out

Had the oil changed in my car (Daddy would be proud)

Straightened my apartment

Cleaned my dishwasher

scrubbed the bathroom

Washed Clothes

Created a filing system for my bills

filed my bills

I accomplished a lot today and ended my day with a nice meal at Ruby Tuesday's.

I will leave you with this funny Atlanta lady Megan McGlover. If you have not already watched a few of her videos, let me introduce you to them! She does "weather" videos from the city of Atlanta, Georgia. If you are from Atlanta, or have ever lived in the local area, you may find some of her videos quite funny!

Day 46

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I am Blessed!

When I was 16, I loved Rachel Lampa's song "I am Blessed". Every time the song came on in the car, I would joyfully belt out the song... out of tune I might add. Someone gave me her C.D. and I would play the song over and over in my 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier.

I was reminded of that song today as I thought through how the Lord has blessed me.

He blessed me with free curriculum for our summer camps that fits the camp themes.

He blessed me with a beautiful day that allowed me and my kids to stay outside for over an hour.

He blessed me with a coworker that encouraged me in my job today.

He blessed me with new clothes, literally left in front of my car.

He blessed me with a conversation with a friend that helped me to organize our sports camps and provide resources for the camps.

He blessed me with more camp enrollments today.

He blessed me with a wonderful church family to worship and study God's word with tonight.

He blessed me with a conversation with a mother today about her daughter's spiritual growth. Mother said to daughter while explaining Disney World, "Some people think that Disney World is the greatest place to be." Her 6-year-old daughter responded, "No Mommy, the greatest place to be is with Jesus in heaven!" Truth spoken through the mouth of a babe!

He blessed me with the gift of roses that I was able to see and smell all day long!

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Day 44

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Valentine's Day 2011

Happy Valentine's Day! Today has been great. The kids loved the games and cupcakes. They are my little sweethearts. Tonight I am busy celebrating Valentines. :) Look for tomorrows post "Love Worth Finding"

Mom sold out of Roses! Praise the Lord. Sorry Fellas!

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Day 42

Skivvies

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The morning of Valentines Day is always an early one. In fact we were lucky if we got sleep.

Mom is always organized and knows what orders goes where. She has this meticulous plan of how the delivery process should go. Each delivery vehicle is equipped with water for flowers, maps, pens, we missed you cards, a phone book, cell phone, pepper mints and food for the drivers, and flower emergency kits.

Cupid Richard on the other hand has a philosophy of the more orders he can grab for delivery the better! He walks in like a tornado grabbing up orders. He is a man on a mission. Mission: Get the job done. Mom just turns circles. They balance each other out.

Riding with Daddy can bring some adventure. His job is to drive and my job is to jump out and deliver the flowers with a smile. One thing I love is that Daddy will stop and get a snack or something to drink. We don't tell mom. Snacking does not fit her schedule.

One delivery I went on was delivering to a older lady. I jumped out of moms ford explorer with the beautiful flowers in my hand and a smile on my face. I knocked on the door and waited. I hear "Just a minute!" I waited and waited and I waited a couple of minutes more.

Then to my surprise the lady walked to the door in nothing but her brassiere and granny panties! Now answer me this, why in the world did it take her ten minutes to get to the door if she was just going to come to the door in her skivvies?

Oh my!

I have always been Cupid Richard aka Daddy's valentine. In fact, he makes sure that I have a beautiful bouquet of  flowers and or a stuffed animal. He is so sweet. My mother on the other hand wants chocolates and a foot massage!

Daddy will you still be my valentine?

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Day 38

Cupid Richard and Sweetie Nancy

Valentines Day Story #1

Many of you know my mother as "Sweetie". Perfect name for her!

One of mine and my mothers favorite Valentines Day candy is the sweetheart candies with messages on them. We love them because you can come up with fun and silly things to say to a person via the sugar candy hearts.

If you dare to walk in the organized chaos of Nancy's Flower Shop on Valentines Day you might would find a bag of those candies lying around along with a great assortment of chocolate. FYI chocolate on Valentines day is for the florist not the girl. This year, give your local florist the chocolates and give your girl the bouquet. Florist need the chocolates to calm the stress.

The week of Valentines day is spent by taking orders, skinning roses (cutting the thorns off), organizing timed orders, skinning roses, routing orders, skinning roses, taking orders, skinning roses.

Bonnie, did you skin the roses yet? Hey Bonnie! Process those flowers and get them in the cooler. Somebody answer the phone!

Yes, the hectic-ness of the week may make your brain tired, but we would not trade it for anything. It brings us utter joy to see the eyes of a lady light up when we walk in with a bouquet of flowers with her name on it. It melts our heart when we see tears in a grandmother's eyes as she has just received a bouquet from her grandson. It brings us excitement when we see men gush when they talk about their sweethearts. This very reason is why I love Valentines Day and miss working at Mom's shop.

There is also one important discussion that takes place the week before Valentines day. What will we wear? Mom can come up with some crazy things for her staff to wear that day. I think that it adds an element of fun to that day. Feather boas, heart headbands, and twinkling necklaces have all been apart of our Valentines Day attire.

Breakfast and Lunch is always provided by Mom. Mom aka Sweetie will make a pot of chili or taco soup for her ladies to eat. You are lucky if you get to sit down long enough to eat a bowl. Well, let me correct myself, Mom would always make sure her employees ate. Mom rarely gets to eat.

Yes, it is hard work, but we have created memories that will last a lifetime and we love the tradition of Valentines Day!

Tomorrow: Delivery Adventures with Cupid Richard aka Daddy!

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Day 36

 

Rejected Super Bowl Ad

What's is on the lineup for Super Bowl commercials this year?

According to Fox, not this ad....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRCZkGshQGc

The commercial was rejected by Fox Sport because it contained "religious doctrine". According to brief research on my part, the commercial was written and produced by a non-profit company whose mission for the commercial is:

"Fixed Point Foundation hopes to encourage fans to look up John 3:16 and consider its meaning."

The commercial will be aired on some local stations in Alabama, where the organization bought out air time.

What I know is this, God is sovereign. Nothing surprises Him or catches Him off guard. This happened because God allowed this to happen. Actually, I believe that the commercial might just get more attention because of the "fair and balanced" decision of Fox Sports.

Day 34

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100 days

Today was the 100th day of school! Man this school year has passed by fast.

One of my colleagues played the neatest game with her students. She placed 100 stickers numbered 1 to 100 all over the room in three different colors. The kids had to find the stickers and color in the number on their hundreds charts. The kids had a blast searching for all the numbers!

I had my 7th grade students type a list of 100 things that they have learned thus far this school year. Oh, you guessed it...I got moans and groans. However, I softened the blow with chocolate candy! :-)

Summer camp is coming fast!

Day 30!

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Guest Blogger Nancy Hunter

Love a relaxing Saturday. I made Paula Dean's Chicken Florentine tonight for dinner! Yum! Yum!

On today's blog we will have a guest blogger. :-)

My mom emailed me last night and her email is just too funny! (Mom don't shoot me for posting this!)

Here is a portion:

"Oh, one last thing.......He (Daddy) got the remote while I was checking my email. Guess what we are watching.......one guess.....HORSE TV!  He turns the volume up loud, then down low, then loud again....oh my!  At least it is not a cow auction!  It is old time country music; a bunch of old people sitting around like the Gaither Homecoming.  Right now, it's Vince Gill....lots of steel guitar.......he looks like he's about 18.  Actually I do like Vince Gill.  Turn it up, daddy, turn it up!!  Reckon he will dance with me? lol

Oh my, I think Bill Anderson is up next. You don't know Bill Anderson....Whispering Bill. Wait, wait.....Roy Clark....Hee Haw!!   There's Charlie Pride.....Oh my goodness, guess who is sitting by him.  It is that comedian from Georgia. I can't remember his name. The one Brett showed us on You Tube.  He looks about 30 years or so. Oh wait, wait, now they are telling funny stories. Oh look, look.....it's Little Jimmy Dickens. He looks about 70 years old. He's always been old. Now, some lady is talking about using Preparation H on her face.

Polka Dance Fest is next. I draw the line!!!!!"

Oh to have been a fly on the wall!

Thanks Paula Dean for Dinner!

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I'm Stuffed

Today was all about stuffing.

With the help of some co-workers and my precious after-school kids. I was able to label, address, and stuff 320 envelopes with flyers and information about Summer Camp. God is so good! Bulk mailing is hard work! I would not have finished this project if it was not for my after care kids helping me!

The mailing went to the 320 local churches in Henderson, Oxford, Youngsville, Wake Forest and other surrounding areas. Hopefully this mail out will get the word out to local people that Colts Kids camp is open to the community!

Keep Praying Registrations starts in 3 days!

Oh! and tonight I stuffed myself with Mexican Cuisine! My favorite.

Day 25

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Chapel Excitement

Today, I was able to speak in elementary chapel. We discussed Matt. 22:37

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and all your mind"

We discussed why Jesus calls this the greatest commandment. Every commandment falls under the jurisdiction of loving the Lord with all of our hearts, souls, minds, and strength. We must realize the sinful condition of our heart, see our need for Christ, honor him with our thoughts, learn his word, and serve him with our bodies.

I was then able to talk about Summer Camp and encourage the kids the invite their friends! Hoping that the kids will continue to get excited and invite tons of friends! The kids seemed pretty excited today as we talked about the camps and the fun things going on.

I sent an email out today encouraging parents to invite their friends via Facebook or by passing out flyers a their work.

Precious Moment: I had a child cry today. Wait! Wait! Before you start Oh Bonnie! He cried today because he did not want to leave aftercare. Oh! Steal my heart right now! Granted we were watching a movie today that he wanted to see the end, still the moment was precious.

Watching the State of the Union address now. It is interesting watching the different pairs of Democrats and Republicans that are sitting together tonight. I find it funny that McCain and Kerry have chosen to sit together.

Another one of my favorite State of the Union addresses is watching the facial expression of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President. This year with the new speaker John Boehner it is quite funny! Boehner looks like an old Baptist enduring a Rock Concert!

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Sick Kids + Sick Teacher

Honestly, I am doing better. Colds are just annoying and cause your brain to have momentary bouts of forgetfulness. I was talking to different people today and I am not quite sure all that I said. Hopefully, everything that I said today was comprehendible.

I am getting excited about registration starting for Camp next Monday. I hope that I can encourage our students to invite their family and friends. I have an opportunity tomorrow to speak at CCS chapel. I will be able to share the gospel and be able to talk with the kids about camp. I plan to be loud, goofy, and excited! :-)

In the process of trying to find ways to promote camp, someone introduced me to this website. www.homeinhenderson.com Check it out! I think that it is a pretty neat website.

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I have spent my night with the bachelor Brad Womack and his crazy bachelorettes. This show is definitely full of drama!

Michelle has her claws out.

Emily is sweet as pie.

Chantal is bold.

Ashley H. has gotten paranoid!

Who is going home....

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Day 22

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Church at SEBTS Chapel Today

I have been inside sick today. Hopefully, the rest has helped my cold.

I went to church today at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel :-). Here is the message I listened to today that Dr. Danny Akin preached. Take a moment and listen to it.

Daniel L. Akin - God Sent His Son And We Killed Him - Mark 12:1-12 from Southeastern Seminary on Vimeo.

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Day 21

Binkley Chapel at Southeastern

I miss going to chapel services there.

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