courtney rebecca

Here's a month by month recap of our year! January We started the year housesitting at our friends house. I made cookies to leave for them! They found the guy that hit us in a hit & run, and we got our $500 back from the deductible. Jason found out his first article was getting published! We recycled 3 of our Macs and bought this one iMac. We totally bought a bar , but it was a giant hassle to get it here. I pulled a muscle in my back moving it in. I read The Fault In Our Stars and it was amazing. I started writing in my Question a Day journal. February We started the month with a snow day! I made the curtains for our back sliding glass door and marathoned Revenge. We found out Brad & Hannah were moving to Denver! Teacher librarians got taken off the cut list and were safe for one more year. I did my GG Book Fair. I made my first Happy Christmas mix in years. Kyle & Liz came to visit! March I bought a Brother sewing machine. I interviewed for my own job for ...

Every year, I like to go back to what my goals were for the year and do a little update as to how I did on them. Here's how I did last year! 1. Find the right job for me You know what? I think I may have accomplished this, right at the very end of the year. It was exhausting to have my job be in jeopardy every single year I've been in education, and it's a relief to go to a "normal person job" that will hopefully just be there. I am taking a risk in leaving my school district and taking a leap to a non-profit, but I'm very hopeful that it will pay off. And that I'll be less stressed. The stress was not working for me. 2. Create something new every month I think I almost did this! I don't know if I did something every single month, but I definitely increased my creativity a lot! I made so many things this year. Ruffle pillow , Kindle case , 2nd Kindle case and sunglasses case , mini quilt , Kingsley's bow tie , Kingsley's quilt , maxi dre...