Bout of Books 13.0: Goals & Daily Updates

I almost forgot that I had signed up to participate in BOB 13...it's my 10th time participating. My last BOB was posted on my teacher blog: here. I have been failing hardcore at reading since having Mason. Most nights, I obviously want to just sleep instead of read, instead of my typical read to be able to sleep. My goal is to read a little bit every day...whether it's a page or a few chapters. I'm almost done with one book right now and had started reading a little in another, so I'd be happy to just finish one of the two.

Goals:

• Read a little every day
• Finish 1 book [my goal for 2015 - one book a week]

End Results:
Books read:

Pages read: 41 pages
Books finished: 0
Final Thoughts: I'm not overly enthusiastic at my end result here. However, I'm not too disappointed with myself. I have a baby man who requires a lot of attention and that makes me pretty tired at the end of the day when I'm used to reading. I also ended up with a sick 7 year old during the weekend and that made me even more tired and busy! I look forward to the next BOB and hope that it will be a more "successful" week of reading :)

April Photo-a-Day: my month in pictures

April flew by. I think probably the quickest of any month. I recently have begun to cut out my morning nap with Mason in favor of blogging and showering. I'm still not 100% on that - there are some mornings I just need more sleep. For the most part, he's a great sleeper and only wakes up once or twice per night. I tried, again, to have less baby pictures make the day cut...but it's so hard. I take a million pictures of him. He's so cute :) Anyways...here was my April!

Baby Mason: Two Months Old

I am continuing the baby updates here on Rocky Top from Teacher's Pet. I can't believe it's already been a month since my last baby update! This little guy though...ah, he's my favorite.

2015 Series "Challenge" - Update #1

Last year, I participated in a series challenge here on the blog, however, it did not go well [evidence]. The blogger decided not to continue the challenge this year and so I decided to challenge myself to my own Series "challenge". Here is my original 2015 Series post on Teacher's Pet, so today I'm posting my first check-in post. My goal is to finish 10 series this year. So far I have read 13 books off the list and finished 2 series. So in the remaining 9 months of 2015, I must finish 8 more series - let's hope I can get it done!

I'm Back!

So in January, I had moved blogging over to a new blog. I wanted to start fresh and blog my journey to become a teacher. Then we had a little change in plans and I felt silly blogging on a teacher blog when it may be a few years now before I finish my degree. So I'm back over here to what was formerly Fortune Favors the Brave and is now Rocky Top Real Talk. I had thought about rebranding Fortune initially instead of making Teacher's Pet and upon moving back over, I decided I needed to rebrand anyways. I was thinking of doing something Tennessee/Southern related and decided to go with Rocky Top, but I just couldn't find anything I liked to go with it. Then I was like...well, I started doing "Real Talk" on Teacher's Pet and I like the cadence of Rocky Top Real Talk...so there you go. Threw together a design, changed my url, and started up a Bloglovin' feed for it.

I don't know how much I'll blog here, but I'll definitely try to :) With Mason here, blogging is hard to do (one-handed), but I will do my best!

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