Official.
Posted: May 26, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies 30 Comments »Weeeee!! It’s official, it’s now summertime. As I typed those words, I could actually feel my shoulders relaxing and my mind clearing. Teaching is an incredibly rewarding profession, but it’s hard work, folks. I can assure you that it’s necessary for teachers to recharge. Otherwise, they’d never come up with any great, new, innovative ideas, and they’d always be grumpy. Or at least that holds true for this teacher.
Maybe it’s the impending lack of structure that my life is going to take for the next two months, but I feel the need to make an organized list of the events of my day. Humor me?
- Even though I had to be at work an hour later today, I still woke up at 4:30am so that I could take Punky on a run without the leash. When 6am rolls round, there are a lot of people out, and I feel bad having her run around un-tethered. But at 5am, the trails belong to us, and it’s glorious to watch the sunrise while running with my free-spirited pup.
2. Although she ran circles around me this morning, Punky has been sick and throwing up for 2 days. I think she ate something yucky. Her energy is fine, but she hasn’t been eating much and when she does…it comes back up. Poor girl. At least she has the cool green grass for a bed.
3. A simple and delicious green monster post-run – nothing but spinach, protein powder, and water
4. Going to work at 8:15 instead of 7:15 makes a huge difference! I left the house feeling well rested and relaxed. Or maybe it was the lack of students in my classroom…either way, this morning was tranquil.
5. Our principal and vice principal made us breakfast! Awesome, right?
Coffee, pancakes, fruit and a teensy bit of eggs and bacon
6. I ate the pancakes and bacon, but decided I didn’t want eggs, and saved the fruit to nibble on later in the morning.
7. After a morning of cleaning and organizing, my classroom now looks like this:
8. I came home around 12:30 and decided to treat myself to a dessert lunch. Oh.my.word. The best news.
Sweet potato, greek yogurt, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and cinnamon
9. Then I finished off the yogurt container with some sprinkly additions
10. Snacktime before grocery shopping looked like this: celery, carrots, hummus, 2 olives, and sparkling water + POM juice
11. Dinner was summery and yummy – a bunless chicken burger topped with zucchini, onions, ketchup and mustard. Also, my new favorite water glass is an old kombucha bottle with a straw.
12. I have a batch of this ice cream in the freezer, and I hope it’s done soon!!
Hahahaha until my mom became a teacher, I never would’ve believed that teachers wanted summer as much as (or sometimes more than) the kids. Happy Summer, sweet Katie!!
P.S. Your dessert lunch? Yeah, pretty much the most gorgeous thing I’ve seen all day
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Congratulations!
And I totally thought you were drinking kombucha through a straw for a moment, and I was wondering if the strands would actually go through it. LOL
Happy Summer Vacay! I remember that feeling as a kid and wish I had still had summer vacation. My parents are both teachers and have the whole summer off so I try to live vicariously through their joy around this time of year. Time to enjoy yourself, which with that spread of food (especially the sweet potato) I think you have that covered!
YAY CONGRATS KATIE BOO!!!
Yay for summer! I am so envious.
Best sweet potato creation ever? I need that in my life ASAP!
YAY for summer!! I love the sprinkles in the yogurt
You said it perfectly in the first paragraph! All I can say is AMEN!!
That is so cool that your dog will run with you without a leash. There is NO WAY either of my dogs would ever be able to do that… between the smells, squirrels, and other dogs we see they cannot stay focused enough to stay with me even with a leash!!
YAY!!! Now you can enjoy the summer!!!
All your eats look so summery…LOVE it!
Yayyyy, congrats! YOU MADE IT!
Enjoy the much deserved summer vacay, lady. Can we all live vicariously through you?
congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what are you going to do all summer? i have a month off before i start working full time in july and i dont have SHIZZLE to do! plus i’m sick so i CANT do anything. sucks. but i’m sure you have tons of stuff to do and even if you dont, the time off will still be nice.
i hope your dog feels better
YAY!!!! Enjoy the break dahling!
woohoo! SCHOOOOOLS OUT FOR SUMMA!
Schools out for summer!!!!
How funny is this..my aunt changed her name to Punky!!
I’d be lying if I said the beneifits of having the summers off wasn’t one reason I’d like to be a teacher! I hope Punky gets better
<3 Tori
I love the idea of re-using Kombucha bottles! Such a great idea, a definitely a convo piece for people that haven’t tried it.
Summer! Whoo Hoo! Party on!
luv ya
Bro
2% Fage > 0% Fage YUM!
congratsssssssssssssssssssss!
ps dessert lunch? amaze.
Woohoo!!! Enjoy your break!!! I’m counting the days until next Wednesday when we are done!! What a nice way to start the day with breakfast cooked at school!
Your burger looks yummy!!!
breakfast looks yummy! but those green monsters scare me.
Happy official summer!
Old Kombucha bottles are seriously the best water bottles. I never trust caps to not leak, but Kombucha ones once held in all that fizz. Puts my mind at ease. Happy summer!
That is so great that you are done for the summer! Wahoo! Congrats
I love that you eat colored sprinkles in your yogurt!
I’m a HUGE fan of sprinkles!!
I’m so glad you are all wrapped up in summer, Katie! Maybe we can see you soon. Ellen was sick on Tues. and Wed., too. She’s back to herself now, though.
Hope Punks feels better! Great job this year!!!
Congrats on being DONE!! Hope you enjoy your summer- I’m sure it’s a welcome break!!
Happy Summer, Katie!
Loved all the snack-y eats
Go enjoy yourself, girl!
Have an amazing weekend
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
sprinkles in your yogurt!? genius!!!