About me

I think it is neat to be able to get to know other bloggers a little bit better. I am starting this ABC so other bloggers have a chance to get to know more about me :) If other Bloggers would love to do this and want to link my blog in their post that would be great and keep it going so we can learn more about each other!! ALSO ADD YOUR LINK BELOW!!!!!!!! Happy Wednesday. All you have to do is take the template and add your own answers

A-  Age: 26

B- Birthday: July 22nd

C- Color: Lime Green and Navy- Hint my wedding colors :)

D: Drink: Diet Coke and Coffee

E: Essential Item: My Planner and iPhone- My life would be a mess if I did not have these 2 things

F: Flashback: When I was in college we use to take girl road trips and we would have a blast, not really have a plan on what to do when we got there other then to relax

G- Gent:  Channing Tatum and he is such a cute daddy!!!

H- Hobby: Traveling, Monogramming, Shopping, Crating

I- Indulgence: Dark Chocolate

J-Job: I am a 1st grade teacher- most stressful, crazy, and oh so rewarding job.. I love the kids I have like my own and miss them each year

K-Kiddos- Lily Jane almost 3 months old on Sunday- The love of my life

L- Live: Florida :) sometimes I wish I lived in TN or back in NC where there was snow :) I love snow and true seasons 

M-Music: I love Country Music and sometimes I like music like Jack Johnson when I need to de-stress or am doing like yoga 

N-Nickname: Chels

O-Overnight hospital stays: The only time is when I gave birth to our beautiful baby girl :) Best hospital stay ever, but was ready to bring her home since we got woken up every like 5 minutes by a nurse 

P-Pets: No pets, to much work if you want to just leave for the weekend!! 

Q-Quotes- 

R-Right or Left- Right

S-Siblings: 1 Brother Cody, who has become by best friend. We use to fight all the time growing up now we are so close and I love it 

T-Temperature: I am Hot and Cold all the time, I can never make up my mind 

U-Univeristy: Flager College- Elementary Education Saint Leo- Master in Ed.Leadership 

V-Vehicle: Mazada CX9

W- Worst Habit- slurping my coffee

X- X-Ray: I have not had any fingers crossed :) 

Y- Yuck: I am not a big Feta cheese person or collard greens, lets me honest I am such a picky eater that I could go on and on.....

Z- Zoo: I love a lot of animals at the zoo- Lion, Monkey, Seals, Penguins 

Now it is your turn!!! Happy Thursday 

Happy Friday!!

So excited to be apart of this link up.. So glad these lovely ladies started it Darci, April, Christina, and Natasha!

1. I am so excited that my book Wife After God: Drawing Closer to God & Your Husband came it. I can't wait to read it. My goal this year is to study Gods word more and to be a better wife to my husband. I know Elise over at Cheers Y'all did a link up for this book study, and I was so sad that I was to late and did not get the book nor had the time since I had a newborn. If anyone wants to do a Book Study/Link-UP with me please let me know!!! 

You can buy your book HERE

2. I am excited that the Winter Olympics started last night. I love the Summer Olympics the best, but I can't wait to watch Ice Skating and Snow Skiing.. I can't wait to watch the Ice Skating Team Meryl and Charlie!! GO USA 

3. Dinner has been extremely hard lately since I am on this No DAIRY diet :( due to Baby Lily Jane has a milk allergy. I put a roast in the crock-pot and it turned out so yummy. You only needed 2 indigents- A Roast and the Campbell's Roast mix. You can also add potatoes and carrots inside if you want to.. 

They make so many different sauces, this is just the one that I used!!

4. With Valentines next week I found this super cute and easy thing, I am going to do for the Hubby Valentines Morning. All you need is 2 bananas!!!!!

Isn't this adorable :) 

5. Pen-Pal- I was so excited to get a letter in the mail from Jenni over at Frankly My Dear ! It is so much fun to get mail :) Makes me so happy. I miss the days where we use to write letters to our friends and send them in the mail. If you miss those days and would like to be my Pen-Pal as well please let me know! I can't wait to get cute little cards to send everyone!!!

In School or Going Back to School??

I just finished my Masters several months ago and I wish I would have looked more into where I got my textbooks from. Let me tell you my textbooks were very expensive and I wish I would have researched other places. But let me tell you if you are in college or going to be going back to school you need to head over to CampusBookRentals where you can save money on renting textbooks and get FREE SHIPPING because in reality how much do you really use the textbooks anyways.

One plus about renting a textbook is that you can save 40-90% off and you can still highlight in the textbooks. They also have flexible renting periods that will allow you to have the book for the semester!  One thing that I really like about this company is that they donate to Operations Smile with each textbook rented. 

Operation Smile 

Operation Smile is an international charity that helps children that are born with a cleft. These children get a gift of having a normal smile and changes their lives forever!!!! This makes my heart smile to know a textbook company donates money to this organization for every textbook rental. 

Also, do you have any textbooks laying around that you were thinking about selling back? Well now there is a RentBack initiative that allows students to rent the textbook that they own to other students over and over again.  Who dose not like making more money!!!!!

Update

These past 2 days has been so stressful.. My hubby has been traveling for work so me and Lily Jane have been home hanging out. This was the first time that he has been gone and I had to do everything by myself. Lily Jane has not been feeling good. On Sunday I was changing her diaper and found blood in her diaper and I freaked out, so I called the doc and they wanted to see me on Monday. When we saw the doctor they wanted to send us to give blood work and to collect poop. I hate when they have to take blood from Lily Jane because she cries and it breaks my heart. The lady taking blood tried to take it from her arms and I was freaking out because they have never taken it from her arm usually her heal. So she spent 10 minutes trying to find her vein and Lily Jane was not happy at all, then went to get it from the heal. Then we had to go back to the doctor to get the results, thankfully they came back fine. I also took the poop tubes to my doctor to show her because I was stressing about this and she told me lets not do this until we absolutely have to, I was so relieved. End result Lily Jane has a milk allergy :( So that means mommy can't have any dairy, which has been very hard and I have thought about giving up beast feeding so not sure how this is going to go. I am also, very upset because I am going back to work and worked hard pumping and freezing milk ( had 1 month) and Lily Jane can't have any of the milk because it has dairy in it :( Thats whats been going on... Has anyone had or have a baby with a milk allergy??