Scrappy Days are here again!

I am sooooooo loving the new job and the new kids and even the new rural commute.

I will be posting photos of my commute, Lucedale, and Mobile soon.

In the meantime, just know that, though my commute never involves heavy traffic, on my first day to my new job I was stuck going 30 mph on a highway behind THIS for quite a while:



I was simply too amused to be annoyed. I am in no way making fun of Mississippi, Alabama, or my rural route--I am just fascinated by it all still.

Today I hung some of the precious vintage strawberry fabric Lauren got me ages ago on the bulletin boards in my classroom. I framed it with--yep, you guessed it--red gingham. Mere words cannot come even remotely close to expressing the insane levels of cuteness and cheese that my classroom has now reached. Soon I think I will make classroom curtains out of the remaining strawberry fabric.





If you don't love that, then I am afraid you do not know the meaning of the word cute!

The sisters threw a bridal shower for me this weekend. Yay for sisters and prizes and cucumber sandwiches! Here are some photos of the madness:



Me. duh.



Mr. (and soon-to-be) Mrs. Wonder.



Me receiving the ultimate love chickens in the love nest!



Cutting the cake.



Boy Wonder, Me, and my almost parents-in-law!



Amy, Me, Nat.



The Bridal Party: Lauren (pictured as an Ugly Doll), Emily, Me, Nancy, Wendy, Stephanie, Amy, Natalie, Allison.



Sister Nancy.



Allison and I were tired after the festivities.


AND Boy Wonder's fabulous co-workers are throwing us a shower next week! I am just dumbfounded by the supreme niceness of it all.

OOOOH--and we now have a mini-honeymoon! Johana and Stage went above and beyond and bought us TWO nights at the super fancy Battlehouse Hotel in Mobile for our wedding gift! Which is amazing and exciting because the hotel is deluxe and near everything, but it's also kinda crazy romantic because Boy Wonder took me there on our first date. Okay, that didn't sound right. Let me explain. He took me to dinner at Busaba's (where he sipped wine through a straw) and then we walked over to see the lobby of the newly renovated Battlehouse. A hotel employee told us about the whispering arches and the "ghost" stories, so we ran around the hotel looking for ghosts and whispering through arches at each other. Okay, we walked around--but it was still fun. Thai food and ghost stories; he knew what he was doing with his wooing!

So, basically: I am super happy, showered with gifts, employed, no longer in pain, and almost entirely stress-free. It's a good thing.



-Scrap diddly dee