It is what it is, but it will become what you make it...

Well, hello world! I never thought I would be much of a blogger, but maybe I am. My inspiration for this blog came from my bestest friend of all time.  A little background on this rocking girlfriend of mine...She and I became friends because I truly believe God knew we needed each other. Betsy, a PC student (several years after me) was placed in my classroom to student teach. I was so reluctant to host a student teacher because for those of you who don't know me, I am a control freak! I was terrified to let anyone else take over my precious kiddos. So I prayed and prayed that God would bless me with someone who would work hard and do things like I would want them to be done. So then He sent my mini-me to Plain that semester. Betsy and I became instant buds, and then best buds, and then roommates and now two best friends just trying to keep up with each other's busy life living an hour apart. So Betsy started her blog this week and I have just LOVED reading it. I feel like she is my roommate again and I am getting to hear her daily stories while we cook dinner, pack lunches (Bets would often pack my lunch because this is the task I HATE the most) and iron our school clothes for the next day. (Well I iron...if you know Bets her iron is the dryer...) So I thought maybe I would give this blogging thing a whirl and see how it goes for me! So if you want to keep up with Miss Elizabeth Leigh, or my dear Betsy as I know her, check out her blog. It is pretty awesome. LOVE YOU CHERYL! http://www.elizleigh.blogspot.com/

So, here we just a little less than a week before going back to school. I am finished with my classroom and anxious to go back so I can find out who my new kiddos will be this year.  I will post some pictures when I am able to get into the school to take some. School is closed on Fridays, David is working, Mom and Becca are out of town, so that left me with a lazy day at home to myself! Yay!

I have been in a little bit of a funk for several reasons.  Although I am SO excited about going back to school,  starting dance and getting into a routine, I am just not sure I am ready. I haven't ever really had a summer where I wasn't working, going to graduate school or busy with some other life task, so this summer I promised myself I would ENJOY IT! And I have. So ready or not I guess it is over. I think I have also been in a little bit of a funk because my two best gals are already gone or getting ready to be gone. Betsy has moved back to Union to teach and my Seester is about to start her senior year at Newberry College, so her weeks here in the "Inn" are numbered.  I won't say much about the last reason that I am in a funk, but let me just say that Mean People Suck! So I was sitting around by myself today wondering what I can do to get out of my funk. Typically I would clean my house, but I am saving that task for the last minute before I go back to school so it can be fresh and clean for the new year. Other times I would go for a run, but in the 100 degree heat + humidity, yeah right. So I decided to have a pamper myself and do only what I want kind of day. It began by having some morning TV time on the couch. I then moved myself to the bubble bath and I am now having my little mini version of a spa day! I bought some new Bert's Bees products, which I am totally obsessed with, cozied up in my bath robe and (EEK!) stepped into the world of self tanners. I have NEVER been a self tanner, but my bronze from the beach trip is beginning to fade and I felt like my skin looked dull so I am giving it a shot. (Today is a day of first for me...blogging, self tanners, resisting the urge to clean...what next?!) So if you see me any time in the next week covered from head to toe and it is 100 degrees, you will know why! So hopefully my funk is nothing that a little dark chocolate and some self pampering can't fix.

So you've read all of this and you are wondering why I decided to title this post "It is what it is, but it will become what you make it..." Well, those are words of wisdom from my dear mama.  She gave my sister and I a copy of these words on a neat plaque for Christmas and they have  become our words to live by. So when I called CC (thats what we call my sweet mama) today to tell her that mean people suck and shed a few tears on the phone, she didn't even have to remind me that I just needed to make the best of it. I looked over from where I sat and saw these words. If there is anything that I have learned in the last year it has been how to make the best of a situation. So self pampering and dark chocolate here I come.

Love ya, mean it!