Open Mouth Insert Dessert...I Mean Foot!

So, here is some back history to my lovely incident today. This week at my school we are having parent/teacher conferences, which equals tons and tons and tons and tons of stress. (If you were wondering I am a bit stressed this week) Anyways, this week we are also having a bake sale every day during conferences, which means the teachers have to bake something to bring one of the conference days. You may be asking yourself two questions right now.... First, does Jessica even know how to bake? Second, will it be safe for the parents and students to eat what Jessica bakes? The answer to both of those questions is of course I can bake (follow a recipe) and no one will be harmed in the eating of my baked good (weight gain does not count).

Tonight we had our first round of  parent/teacher conferences, which meant a lot of sitting and waiting for me. That's another story in itself...focus! Since I had some time to kill I walked in to the hallway and ran into my coach, who by the way is amazing. She asked me what I was making for the bake sale and I responded, "crack candy." She politely asked, "what is crack candy?" I went on to explain to her what crack candy was made of....fast forward about twenty-minutes. My parent never came for her conference so I proceeded to walk myself down to the book fair where my coach was working. As I am talking with my coach and another teacher, my coach says, "Tell this teacher what you are going to be making for the bake sale." I quickly respond (no processing involved before speaking) "CRACK CANDY." If you guessed that parents and children were looking around the book fair as I made this proclamation you are correct. Yikes!!!! To say my coach and the other teacher were shocked would be an understatement; as they were picking their jaws off the ground I quickly fixed my mistake and said, "I am making CRACKER CANDY." I proceeded to blame my word vomit on my frontal lobe because I have heard it isn't fully developed until you are twenty-five. I still have three more years of making dumb decisions.....right?

FYI- If you are going to use the term crack candy make sure it's around those who know what you are talking about.

Shout Out---Thanks Tracy for the recipe :)

After this hectic week is over I will update everyone on my physical and mental state of being.

Yours Truly!



This pan has white chocolate m&ms on top. Yummy!  



This pan has candy corn on top. I haven't tried this one becuase I am not a fan of candy corn. (Crossing my fingers it is good.)

Fall is Officially Here...Well Not Exactly!

So, last Friday was the official start of Fall and you better believe my kids and I had a party. No really, we literally had a party to celebrate the first day of Fall. Now this may come as a shock to you but no other teacher celebrated Fall quite the way we did. One other teacher did some Fall activities with her students but that was about the extent of the Fall excitement in her room. I do not blame my fellow teachers for not feeling the same passion for Fall as I do because it is currently still over a hundred degrees everyday out here. So, in their defense it's a little hard to get excited about a season you don't even get. (Please take a moment to think of these poor people who don't get to experience the amazing Fall weather and scenery...me included now.)


Our Fall Day:
The beginning part of the day was filled with fun assessments...yay! (not really) Then, it was time for science to start and that's when  my kids worlds were turned upside down. My parents sent me a box of dried leaves, which my kids thought was the greatest thing ever. You would have thought I had given them a million dollars each when in reality all I gave them was a leaf. Ok, I might have built the leaves up and made a huge deal about them coming from GA and not being able to get anymore and how fragile and special they were; but all of that aside my kids thought the leaves were the greatest things ever right until....Soandso broke one. Let's just say soandso almost lost his hand because of the breaking of a leaf. Thankfully, I was able to rescue him before the leaf detectives were able to get to him.


The rest of our day pretty much consisted of leaf and fall activities, sprinkled with a million questions about fall and why we don't have Fall. The best part of the afternoon (other than the cake) was when my students made their leaf into a creature or monster. If I ever figure out how to put pictures on this computer then I will take pictures and show you how amazing they did. Some students made their leaf into real animals like tadpoles and fish, while others made theirs into scary/silly monsters. The students also wrote about their creature/monster that they made. Crazy cute! 


Funny Story Time:
The other day one of my fellow teachers was getting observed by our principal and coach. Well, she pulled out a book about the four seasons and soandso from my class started going off about fall and all the things we had done in our classroom. Bet she never thought one of her kids would come in with background knowledge about Fall. (Yay! For Me!) Apparently the fall activities and leaves left quite the impression on him. The teacher is amazing so she recovered and went on to have a wonderful lesson.


Dear East Coast,


If you would like to send some of your amazing Fall weather this way that would be much appreciated.


Thank you,
Jessica (The girl who misses fall like crazy!)


I suppose that is all for now, but just remember I would be alright if someone would bottle Fall up and send it to me.


Yours Truly!