Coffee CubBuster

1. Sleep... my mother-in-law has magic powers, or maybe she puts something in her cooking, or maybe it's all a trick with her clocks, but I can only get over 9 hours of sleep multiple days in a row when we go down and stay at her place in St. Simons. Love you Mama Marsha! 2. Pinterist: Look at what I had time to try out during my time off. I think I copied the Pinterist photo pretty well!  Pinterest Hair:  http://pinterest.com/pin/549267514/ My Hair: 3. Left-over turkey sandwiches 4. Christmas music starting 5. Friends/Family--- isn't that a given? 6. My nephew's laugh!!   See him cracking up here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJQMYHQmsg&feature=colike 7. My husband's winter beard 8. God's infinite grace! 9. The moist-maker (Friends reference) 10. Elf *These are not in order of importance, otherwise the moist-maker would be at the top. :) ~Thankful Buster

It stinks to have a pesky cold, but I'm always one that tries to look on the bright side, so as I bask in a sea of tissues, hot tea, and honey-lemon halls, I realize that this is the perfect time to watch all those old movies I've never seen and always wanted to. First on the list.... Breakfast at Tiffany's. I thought the old Hepburn movie would be in black and white like Roman Holiday , but it wasn't! I loved it! AMAZING!  A true classic with a Louie Armstrong soundtrack and everything. Next up... I'm debating between Die Hard  and The Diary of Anne Frank-- both well-known box office hits. Anne Frank might make my sinus cavity worse though. What would Holly do? --SnuffyBuster

I had a great weekend with my small group girls at disciple now. We slept little, ate lots, and had a blast. I also learned a lot of new knowledge that really is of no use to me, except to make me feel older than I actually am... I now know of Dub Step, Skrillx , and the Bernie - a dance move, which I think looks like a flailing lunatic (but this is coming from a traditional dancer mind you). Apparently, I look like a seizing monkey when I do it, but in my defense, that's exactly what I thought it looked like on other people, so I was just mimicking! While I'm quite proud of my new dance moves, and my girls thought it was hysterical, sadly I have none to post. Can you hear the disappoint in my words?? :) The snacks were abounding Saturday night is the costume night at the church. With the "driven" theme, my girls dressed like old ladies (who lost their license) Grey hair and all- they looked awesome! The other leader and I dressed up as the nursing home ...

Helen is one of our favorite places to camp, mostly because we've been there so many times and know the best spots. While all of our friends conveniently had plans during the first frost of the season, wusses, we had the distinct honor of camping with the beautiful and ever-youthful Chloe Blair! I think if I did this, people would stare. What do you think? Our camera really doesn't do the fall colors justice. It was just gorgeous! This was like try #6... Chloe is thinking, why are these guys such freaks ! She didn't seem to think we were freaks now! It was quite a chilly evening.  That's probably the last camping we'll do for 2011... Next up, fort building in our apartment! :)   ~CampinBuster

I'm so thankful that my husband has jumped on the fall bandwagon with his crazy wife. He's been humoring me for years, and I think all the humor has added to our creative carvings. Off the vine is the best way to get um! In Athens.... He felt like he picked the best one. Psh... I want to cut my own Christmas tree this year too! It might be a little tougher than this though. Aw... he's so fratastic. Gotta love him! I wanted my pumpkin to be scared of the tricker-treaters that year. I thought it was funny Stone Mountain also puts out some great ones I keep holding on to my overalls for this one day every year.  We had some good stencils that year! Matthew was mighty proud of his headless horseman. You HAVE to go to Burts. It's the mother of all patches! There aren't really words for this particluar year. Matthew decided on a Cyclopes this year. There was no changing his mind... I did Jack from Tim Burton's Ch...

Every so often I think its essential that we all get to a place with no cellular bars. Even with my small, antiquated flip phone, I still find value in disconnecting from the world. That's exactly what my hubby and I did this past Saturday. We headed north to the Tennessee/Georgia border for some much needed R&R and a bit of God's beautiful nature. The trees were just starting to turn, the air was crisp and the temperature was perfect for a campfire. Minus the bumping ground, lack of silverware, and unfortunate regret of pillow packing, we had great time! Nothing like samores and gin-rummy to make a great evening! Plus we got our pumpkins for carving (more on that later). We we saw two tent-covered wagons pulled by horses, we realized we weren't in Kansas anymore. "Oregon Trail" anyone? Matthew said we could only take what we could carry because our campsite was a couple miles into the hike. Jack's River! We didn't make it to the falls.... No...

Teaching is certainly a "calling", and one that I feel blessed to have heard and followed. However, it also has its generous portion of difficulties like any other job/career. This article: TEACHERS  was sent to me recently, and I had some definite fist pump, amen sister!  moments while reading. I heard about the article on the radio the same day, so I think it was some kind of sign: I'm not alone when I face these daily educational challenges. I pray the day I feel like shoving cow manure in a student's face, that I immediately resign. I can't let myself get burnt out, or I am truly useless and destroying America's future potential. I just have to recall all the little glorious moments experienced in my classroom: "Mrs. Smith, how do you come up with these questions. You really make us THINK!" "Mrs. Smith, I really like this Killing a Mockingbird book." "Mrs. Smith, when is Juliet gonna let her hair down from the balcony so th...