Hi all! It’s FRIDAY! And it’s time for another link-up with the fabulous E Tells Tales.
Friday also means it’s the weekend and I can see the light.
Normally I do my Things I Saw, Things I Love segment on Fridays, but I thought I’d try 10 little things this time just for fun. Here’s a little recap of what I’ve been up to this week:
1. I started this book club at school about a month ago. A children’s literature book club– because we all like children’s lit (duh). We basically read young adult novels and then get together over tea and crumpets to talk about the novel. SUCH a good idea, right? Except I slacked this month I didn’t finish the book in time. #majorfail
My excuse was “the holidays”, but that was a lame excuse that even I can’t totally believe.
Do you think they’ll let me back in?
I sure hope so.
It’s times like these I think I sometimes put too much on my plate. Like, chill, Anna, you don’t have to do everything.
2. My sister and I went to see the Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker on Tuesday and the short of it is that it was a DREAM.
Here’s the long of it:
My sister and I both used to dance when we were younger. Like, for reals dance, with pointe shoes and everything. And we were in the Nutcracker! For three or four years in a row at least. We started off as dolls, and then played soldiers and mice, and then, when we got really good, or at least as good as we could get we were flowers. As in the waltz of the flowers. We rocked it back in the day and seeing it again was amazing.
3. I desperately need to write out my Christmas cards. I got some fun ones from Paper Source and I’ve just been pushing the task to the side for weeks.
Do you write Christmas cards?
It’s the one time of year I really try my darndest to get letters out to the people I love. Usually, right around this time I am frantically emailing friends trying to find out their address. This is because 1) I am horrible at keeping the addresses I got last year in an easy-to-access location and 2) people are always moving on me!
It’s too bad too because it’s fun to get a Christmas card out of the blue. Asking someone their address completely ruins the secret, but it’s how I roll and that’s just the way it’s gonna be.
4. Wednesday night I went to the Boston Bloggers Holiday Fiesta party and met loads of bloggers. It’s a little overwhelming attending one of those things by yourself, and it was only my second time at a blogger event, but I have to say I always enjoy them. It’s nice to meet new bloggers and the BEST part is meeting bloggers that you’ve been following for awhile that have also been following you. I finally met Clair, who’s been around this here blog for awhile now and it was SO nice! I honestly felt like we were already friends, which is such a terrific feeling– can’t wait til our next get together!
Here is just a taste of some of the bloggers I met:
Alison from Long Distance Loving
Laura from Little Bit of Lacquer
5. Speaking of meeting bloggers, me and Elizabeth had a Skype date last night. I can pretty much sum it up in three words: I LOVED IT. This thing called blogging, it’s real life. Before I talked to E, she was sort of unreal to me. Real, but unreal, if you know what I mean. Just a girl that I liked, on the internets, blogging about things that were awesome. But the thing about E is that she’s just so darn approachable. She really cares about people, and I dig that. And now I think it’s safe to say we’re friends. Like, real life friends. For REALS.
And I’m psyched!
If you asked me a year ago if I thought I’d have a friend in Alabama that I’d meet through blogging, instagram, and the twitter my answer would be NO.
But look at that, I do now. And it’s sweeeeeet.
6. Zan and I have been TV shopping for the past couple of weeks. It’s going to be our Christmas present to each other and we’re having a time of it.
I like to just buy whatever looks good.
Zan likes to research the heck out of it.
So, we’re working on it. I’ll let you know what we decide if we ever decide.
7. How fun is this fur scarf my sister got as a gift the other day? IN LOVE!
I’ve been wanting a fur vest for awhile now. It’s completely trendy, and I’ve fallen for it.
8. My cousin Timmy and his lady Katie just got engaged this week! This means a Burns Family wedding is in the near future and this makes me UBER happy.
There is nothin’ better than a Burns Family wedding, people.
Nothin’!
9. Yesterday was Pajama Day at school. My kids filled up a jar with cotton balls (for good behavior, showing kindness, and the like) and that was their reward.
Ahh, the simplicity of being 6.
I wore my PJ’s too in case you were wondering.
10. And because I just don’t have anything more to say, here’s a mini video of me jammin’ out to Flo Rida.
Ever since my friend Melanie told me about this song I can’t stop listen to that beat. And it’s just been one of those weeks where things are turning up on the bright side. Love ’em when they’re like that.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
