Five for Friday [July 10th]

Happy Friday everyone! It has been an awesome week! I feel like I have been incredibly productive, which is good because I start my next online class on Monday. (insert sad face here) It has been a wonderful thing to have the last 2-3 weeks off.  I've made the most of these weeks!

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things I've done over the week or so.

 

Like I shared with my Monday Made It, budget has been a huge focus for me lately.  I am trying really hard to control my spending and to make wiser choices.  Just knowing this has really limited my spending a great deal and I know we are going to benefit because of it!

 

My new school is a 7 Mindsets school and after finally finishing the book, I could not be more excited to begin using these as a classroom teacher.  They are such a wonderful set of ideas to live by and I can't wait to see how they impact my teaching and our life outside of work as well.

Shaun T and I have a love-hate relationship.  I did T25 a year ago and had awesome results.  I started Insanity Max: 30 during the holidays and our big move and it was just a total flop.  I am 4 days in now and I am enjoying it so much more.  I love that each workout has a modifier track where I can see the modifier the entire time.  I also love how much Shaun T supports doing the modified version.  Trust me, even modified, this workout will kick your booty... and it is over in 30 minutes! You can't beat it!

This past Tuesday, the hubs and I went on a mini field trip with my mother-in-law and brother-in-law down to IKEA.  Looking back, I can't believe I didn't take a single picture to document the trip.  We don't go very often and it is absolutely my favorite place which is usually documented... but alas, no pictures.  Since my new budget system has been put into place, I went into the trip with a specific amount to spend in mind.  I am proud to say I didn't go over and was actually under my limit! This is one of the things I went looking for and have been for a while.  I saw this on Pinterest and knew it would be the most affordable system for mailboxes for me right now.  This entire set up was less than $25, the shoe organizers are very sturdy and spacious, and I can re-purpose it if it doesn't work effectively after a year!

 

My move to a new school has caused me to have to downsize a bit.  One of the things I had to leave at home was my bin shelf that I used to use as a place to store math manipulatives (which are now living in our house :\).  At first, I just put the shelf and all the bins in one of our guest closets because the primary colors go with nothing at all.  While I was at Home Depot yesterday, I got the great idea to spray paint them.  I can't wait to show you the transformation and to actually be able to leave this out instead of tucked into a closet!

That's all for this week.  Stay tuned for posts coming this weekend and early next week.  I have some almost finished products I can't wait to share with you!