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12 Days of Christmas – Day 11

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Would you rather wear light-up Christmas lights or wear a red nose every day during the holiday season?

Oh my goodness, before I even get started I just have to say how crazy it is that this is already day 11 of Blogmas!! It’s crazy how fast this goes by and I’m sad it’s coming to another end. I love doing this every year and I have been honored to take part in this again!

Okay so the question…would I rather wear light-up Christmas lights or wear a red nose every day during the holiday season? I think I would for sure choose to wear light-up Christmas lights every day during the season rather than wear a red nose. I love those necklaces you can buy at Target or Walmart that are Christmas bulbs and they light up. I find them so fun!

I think I would for sure rather wear the lights than the nose because I think the lights are less abnormal and more festive! I think because of those necklaces, people are used to seeing others wear Christmas lights on their body. Sure, you’d probably be wearing more than a necklace but I think it would still be less strange than wearing a large red nose.

I also just love Christmas lights more than anything! They are so pretty and festive!! I would love to wear them every day just to show how into the season I am. I like Rudolph but I wouldn’t want to walk around with a giant red nose on my face.

Come join our 12 days of Christmas Blogmas fun!

To join in on the festivities, go check out our amazing leader Abbey’s page at Three Cats and a Girl! If you find her 12 days of Christmas tab, you’ll see her posts from this Blogmas and her past 3 YEARS worth of Blogmas posts!! If you want to read more Blogmas fun, go check out the pages of my other friends; AJ at Petite Slice of Life and Amber at To the Great Western World!

Go check out my Instagram page @lifeoftherookieteacher for more day to day action and live activities!

🚨PRE STATE TESTING ALERT🚨 Also, jumping on the virtual holiday class picture bandwagon!! I love my little elves!! ❤️💚 #teacherlife #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #holidayseason #teachingin2020 #happyholidays #pixtonedu When it’s officially Christmas break and you can say peace out to teaching in 2020! 🙌🏻 We survived people! 2021, we are SO ready for you!! Blogmas Time!! Week 1 of distance ✔️ Last school year I had amazing donors who sponsored my class so each kid would get a free book every month. Unfortunately with COVID, I wasn’t able to hand out their March, April, or May books. The books have just been sitting in my car just waiting to be passed out again. Yesterday I used those books to send each of my students home with 3 new books they can read during this round of distance learning. Thank you donors from 2019, these books put a necessary smile on the faces of 23 5th graders who were having a really hard time leaving school. ❤️ It’s Lucy’s favorite time of the year too ❤️ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: If you’ve never heard of Mystery Doug or Mystery Science before, go check it out!! Videos are posted weekly teaching everything from the weather to bugs. Today my students made symmetrical centipedes for Friday Fun. (They thought they were doing an art project when in reality they were doing science!) #teacherwin When the weather is nice, you take advantage of it by taking your tests outside! ☀️ #schoollife #teachersofinstagram #teacherlife #covidlife #covidclassroom #school2020 #lifeoftherookieteacher

Go check out my most recent posts!!

NEDA Week 2021

2 years ago I shared a story that is very close to my heart. I talked about my younger sister’s struggle with Anorexia Nervosa and how it has impacted her life and my life. This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week so I thought it would be time to share again the battle my … Continue reading NEDA Week 2021 →

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12 Days of Christmas – Day 10

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Would you rather have to put up outdoor Christmas lights for all your neighbors or wrap all the holiday presents for extended family members?

This one is an obvious choice for me. I would so much rather wrap all the holiday presents for extended family members! I’ve never put Christmas lights outside so I think I would fail epically if I offered to put up all the lights for all of my neighbors.

I LOVE wrapping presents. I think it makes me sound crazy but there is something so relaxing about it. One of my favorite parts about buying gifts for people is the wrapping that comes after. I thoroughly enjoy making every gift look nice and embellished. Growing up, I know my mom despised the day she had to wrap all of our gifts. I never understood that because it gives me so much peace.

Another reason I would totally choose the gift wrapping over the light hanging is the fact that my extended family isn’t even that large so there wouldn’t be a whole lot of gifts to wrap. On my mom’s side, there is only 9 of us. That’s a piece of cake. We also are all adults so we don’t have a whole lot of gifts that we give to one another anymore. We are more into spending the day together rather than the presents. My dad’s side is a bit bigger. There are 12 cousins, 4 pairs of parents, my grandma, and 3 kids of cousins. Wrapping all of their gifts would probably take up the most amount of time, but again I wouldn’t mind. I would make the day of it. I would have Christmas movies playing all day long.

Growing up, my house never had lights on it. I love looking at Christmas lights but since I never watched my parents put them up, I wouldn’t even know where to start. Plus, staying outside all day to put up the lights would be freezing and miserable! (Remember, I’m a Minnesotan so being outside this time of year for long periods of time is not fun!)

Come join our 12 days of Christmas Blogmas fun!

To join in on the festivities, go check out our amazing leader Abbey’s page at Three Cats and a Girl! If you find her 12 days of Christmas tab, you’ll see her posts from this Blogmas and her past 3 YEARS worth of Blogmas posts!! If you want to read more Blogmas fun, go check out the pages of my other friends; AJ at Petite Slice of Life and Amber at To the Great Western World!

Go check out my Instagram page @lifeoftherookieteacher for more day to day activities and live action!

🚨PRE STATE TESTING ALERT🚨 Also, jumping on the virtual holiday class picture bandwagon!! I love my little elves!! ❤️💚 #teacherlife #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #holidayseason #teachingin2020 #happyholidays #pixtonedu When it’s officially Christmas break and you can say peace out to teaching in 2020! 🙌🏻 We survived people! 2021, we are SO ready for you!! Blogmas Time!! Week 1 of distance ✔️ Last school year I had amazing donors who sponsored my class so each kid would get a free book every month. Unfortunately with COVID, I wasn’t able to hand out their March, April, or May books. The books have just been sitting in my car just waiting to be passed out again. Yesterday I used those books to send each of my students home with 3 new books they can read during this round of distance learning. Thank you donors from 2019, these books put a necessary smile on the faces of 23 5th graders who were having a really hard time leaving school. ❤️ It’s Lucy’s favorite time of the year too ❤️ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: If you’ve never heard of Mystery Doug or Mystery Science before, go check it out!! Videos are posted weekly teaching everything from the weather to bugs. Today my students made symmetrical centipedes for Friday Fun. (They thought they were doing an art project when in reality they were doing science!) #teacherwin When the weather is nice, you take advantage of it by taking your tests outside! ☀️ #schoollife #teachersofinstagram #teacherlife #covidlife #covidclassroom #school2020 #lifeoftherookieteacher

Go check out my most recent posts!

Blogmas Day 9 – Candle Scents

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Blogmas Day 9 – Candle Scents

There’s nothing more relaxing than just laying on the couch with some candles lit enjoying the sweet smells that fill the air. I especially find this extra enjoyable during those cold winter nights. This always starts around Christmas time.

No matter what time of the year it is, I typically light the same candles because I love the scent. My favorite (year round) candles are anything vanilla or lavender related. Even though these are not exactly related to Christmas, I still can’t get enough of them.

My favorite scents of the season are usually more fall related but I think some of those smells can translate to the Christmas season. I don’t want to sound like a classic 20-something year old girl, but I love the smell of pumpkin! As much as pumpkin spice is an October/November scent, I think it’s just as much of a Christmas scent as it is a Thanksgiving one.

I also love the scent of peppermint. I’ve had the same peppermint scented candle for years because I only light it during the holiday season. It may be a stronger scent, but it still brings the Christmas feeling into whatever room it’s in.

 

Want to participate in Blogmas 2019? Check out the following guidelines!

Last year you might have followed along with the 12 Days that I did with some of the gals listed above and we had such a good time that we decided to celebrate again together this year! So without further ado here are the guidelines for my 12 Days of Christmas.

  1. use the image provided in each post, so that way anyone who might jump in later can see what the plan is for the month.
  2. for sure link back to me, Abbey@ThreeCatsandaGirl, so that way I can celebrate your Christmas with you and maybe get some ideas of how to create festive enjoyment!
  3. spread Christmas cheer in the way you know best!