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Chocolate Caramel Apple Cookies

Chocolate Caramel Apple Cookies

Happy November & Day-After Halloween! Halloween is over, but your candy stash is not! Right after Halloween you can get great deals on candy for all of your baking needs. These cookies would also be perfect for using up some of your extra trick-or-treating candy 

Olive Oil

Olive Oil

Olive Oil: tastes good AND good for you! I recently received notification that I will be getting some goodies from O&Co, Mediterranean Food Merchant. Although I have not come home to a package of this amazing surprise yet, I am so excited about the promise 

EASY & Delicious Broccoli Cheddar Soup

EASY & Delicious Broccoli Cheddar Soup

There’s a Storm ‘a Coming here on the East Coast (which always makes me want to sing “Comin’ a Terrible Storm”). Like usual when there is a Storm in the Forecast, the General Public is panicking and running out to stock up on everything they need for the end of the world (you know; water and bread and eggs and toilet paper). Now, in all honesty, the Weather Forecasters really don’t know where Sandy is going to track (not because they are bad at what they do, but just because it is unpredictable), but people want answers, so they keep on doing their best to come up with some forecast (and if you are like my parents you can watch the “Local on the 8’s” for hours on end so you really enjoy all those updates which really keep on repeating the same info that they [weather forecasters] are not sure about)

SO, while everyone is rushing out to the store, you can now stay in the comforts of your own house and enjoy some deliciously easy Broccoli Cheddar Soup (and if you need to run out to the store for any of these ingredients, good luck – but it is worth it for this soup)*. This soup has got to be one of the most delicious soups I have had in a while and it was so easy, and is actually a somewhat healthier version of this soup compared to some that I have seen out there!

Happy Fall, Happy Storm, Happy Halloween, Happy Whatever – because HAPPY is what you are going to be after eating this soup, so yes – you are welcome 🙂 Continue reading EASY & Delicious Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Roasted Pepper Mac n Cheese

Roasted Pepper Mac n Cheese

Mac – n – Cheese… Something so easy, so normal, yet so delicious! If you still have some late summer peppers overflowing your refrigerator (or if you are craving a way to switch up your macaroni) then I have the solution for you! Before the 

Stuffed Snickerdoodle Cookies

Stuffed Snickerdoodle Cookies

“OMG it’s like a ball of heaven in my mouth” is how these cookies were described by their recipient No matter how old you are, we can pretty much assume that you still like to get mail and that you still like cookies. So when 

Leadership & my Classroom

Leadership & my Classroom

I love my classroom! Yeah, of course there are things that I would change about it, but it is such a fun place to spend my day! I wanted to take a break from food for a moment to share some views from my room…

My Door…
Mission Statement & Other things to Inspire
close-up of my Personal Mission Statement
(a Dr. Seuss quote)

We are a Leader in Me School which means we teach out students about the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Steven Covey. By teaching Leadership we are teaching our kids how to be the most effective people that they can be. My classroom and the quotes & such around the room hopefully help to inspire my students in some small ways, so I hope you enjoy my room as much as I do (not pictured are the CDs hanging from the ceiling and the twinkle lights all around – just ’cause they are fun)!

All 7 Habits
(also get aligned to each lesson, in addition to “objectives” I connect each lesson to a habit)

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