Meet Giggles
I am an educator and PhD. I quilt, belly dance, run, read, and try to grow things. I am a Mormon. I am infertile. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, grand-daughter, friend, wife, and mom. more...Posts I’m Proud Of
What I’m Reading
- Living With Enthusiasm
by L. Tom Perry
131 pages
Started: 3 February 2014 - The Castle of Llyr
by Lloyd Alexander
206 pages
Started: 2 February 2014
- Living With Enthusiasm
Shared Thoughts
- Brett L. Dennis - Popcorn on the Christmas Tree
- Mama g - Popcorn on the Christmas Tree
- Mama g - A Hebrew Alphabet Quiet Book
- Giggles - A Hebrew Alphabet Quiet Book
- Brett L. Dennis - A Hebrew Alphabet Quiet Book
- AmandaStretch - Talent Show!
- Mama g - Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Category Archives: Work
Expect the idiot
It’s the end of the semester. And I’d actually be disappointed if I didn’t have at least one student send a frantic email asking what extra they could do to get an A, or can’t I round an 86 up to an A. Keep reading
3 Shared thoughts
A long winter’s nap
It’s been a long semester. More than once I’ve slipped and called my backpack a suitcase. Which to me means that it and I have spent far too much time gone this semester. It’s starting to get to me and wearing on me. Time for it to be over. Keep reading
I remember at 29
I remember at 29 wondering if quitting one thing would mean I’d always quit when things weren’t so much fun any more. … I worried that quitting a job when I didn’t like it any more meant I’d quit other things, like perhaps a marriage (hey! nobody ever said my fears were rational!), when they stopped being enjoyable as well. Keep reading
I remember at 28
Categories: Education, Happy Things, Remembers, Work
I remember at 28 … The teachers stood to clap for me and I felt so small because so many of them are amazing teachers that I look up to and so many of them deserve to be honored too. Keep reading
I remember at 26
I remember at 26 taking on an additional project at work that meant I had to get to work even earlier, and on my normal days off (I taught computers Tuesday through Thursday). Keep reading
I remember at 25
Categories: Happy Things, Remembers, Work
I remember at 25 already having made a name for myself at the school. Which translated into me dancing in the Oscar Myer hot dog costume for the fifth grade traveling show that school year. … People just expected me to fully jump in on days like that, and I always did, and I always loved it. Keep reading
I remember at 24
Categories: Happy Things, Remembers, Work
I remember at 24 being thankful for my first job as a teacher, my very first apartment, and that both were on the bus route. … Happy Thanksgiving! Keep reading