The Sunday Post #86 – Weekly Wrap-up
Welcome to my Sunday Post. Thank you to Kimba over at The Caffeinated Reviewer, who is hosting this weekly event. It is the perfect opportunity to share what happened here on my own blog, as well as some of the happenings elsewhere in the Blogosphere.
So, I taught my last class of the year, which was kind of bitter-sweet. I really had two great classes, and it was sad to say goodbye – especially because I probably won’t be teaching in the same school next year. It was sweet, too, though, because it means I’m soon off for the whole summer…
I’m ready for my oral exam tomorrow, on Communication in Foreign Language Teaching, and I’m glad it’s my one and only exam this session. I hope I’ll get a good, juicy question about context and social appropriateness 😀 Here’s how my binder looks now that I’ve made connections between the various articles, with the different perspectives the authors have shared.
On Thursday, Mr. Lex and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. We went out for a very nice dinner, and had a fantastic, romantic night. It’s really weird to me to think that we’ve been married for that long – because it kind of makes me think we were kids when we got married (which we weren’t…).
Yes, I am also very pregnant here, as our first child was born about six weeks after we got married. We’re both feeling out our hands with our new rings here 😉
This Week’s Freddy pics:
- [2 Jun] Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #68 – Tell the Wind and Fire
- [3 Jun] Up Close and (un)Conventional – Let’s Talk About Sex
- [4 Jun] STS #136 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #86
- [5 Jun] Sunday Post Weekly Wrap-up #86
- [30 May] 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger ★★½
- [31 May] Top Ten Clues You're Clueless by Liz Czukas ★★★
- [1 Jun] The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North ★★★★
- [9 Jun] Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #69 – Relativity
- [10 Jun] Up Close and (un)Conventional – Classroom Reads
- [11 Jun] Stacking The Shelves #137 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #87
- [12 Jun] Sunday and Weekly Wrap-up #87
- [6 Jun] Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh ★★★★★
- [7 Jun] Dream Magic by Michelle Mankin ★★★★★
- [8 Jun] The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater ★★★★★
Aila @ Happy Indulgence Books wonders why it’s so hard to Agree to Disagree?
Bee @ Quite the Novel Idea shares a very personal post to kick off Pride Month!
Brandee @ Bookworm Brandee explains how some of her best friends are people she met Thanks to Books!
What have you been up to this past week? Don’t forget to leave me a link so I can come visit your Sunday Post as well.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend, and that next week will be filled with awesome!
About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
When I taught, I was always as excited as the children for summer break. 🙂 Good luck on your exam.
Oh, and 21 years!!! Happy Anniversary. Love seeing your picture. Fun to go back and look and gasp. I sometimes feel like I’m looking at someone else when I see an old picture of me. Ha!
Have a good week, Lexxie!
In some ways, I feel like we haven’t really changed much, but in other ways, we look SO young 😀
It does sound like it’d be bittersweet teaching your last class of the year, especially if it might be your last year at that school, but I’m sure there will be great things to come! And good luck on your exam!
Happy Anniversary, 21 years is fantastic! And awww Freddy <3 When are they going to invent teleportation machines? You could just pass him around to all of us bloggers whenever we need a cuddle lol.
That’s the thing when substitute teaching – never know where I’ll end up next. Hopefully, I’ll be lucky enough to find something for most of the school-year, at a school very close to my house 🙂
I would love to have a teleportation machine! I’d stop by your house with Freddy, we’d have a coffee or tea, you could cuddle Freddy while we chatted about books 😀
Happy anniversary, good for you guys! And good luck with your exam! I can see where it would be hard to say goodbye to that last class, but at least you have the summer to look forward to. Hope you have a wonderful week.
Thank you, Greg 🙂 And you’re right, having the whole summer to look forward to definitely helps 😀
Happy Anniversary!!! Sorry about your classes ending – the ones you taught, I mean. As for your exam, I hope it goes well. Best of luck to you!! It’s almost over!
-Lauren
Thank you, Lauren 🙂 I hope it goes well, too, I feel ready – so it should be OK.
Happy anniversary! I love that photo! I marvel all the time when I look at my parents’ wedding photos. I finished classes and will be enjoying summer with you! I miss, but also don’t miss, marking up texts like that. Have a great week!
Thank you, Charlie 🙂 We don’t really have any of our wedding photos out of our album – maybe I need to remedy that 🙂
I’m glad we’ll both be able to enjoy summer now 😀
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Happy Anniversary!! We will be married 29 years in April and we were kiddos. I was only 21 🙂 Good luck with the exam. I am sure saying goodbye to the kiddos was bitter sweet! Enjoy your summer 🙂
I was 24 when we got married, so yes, quite young, but not a baby 😀 Thanks for stopping by, Kim!
Happy 21st anniversary! And that dog is such a cutie! *hearteyes*
Thanks for sharing my post. <3
Thank you, Bee 🙂 And it’s my pleasure to share your post! I loved it!
21 years! That’s amazing! Congrats to you and your husband. 🙂 Your binder looks like hard work and fun. I don’t know why, but I love highlighting. I don’t know if I’m the only one, but that might just be my little quirk. 🙂
Thank you, Anna!
Strangely, I enjoy highlighting too, but not my precious books. My binder is OK, since it’s printed articles only in there.
Oh… holidays coming up! That sounds great.
But – good luck with your exam and you hope you get the question you want!
And.. happy belated anniversary. Love that pic of you both!
Ha! I hope I get that question, too, then I’ll be able to get an A+… if not, I’ll be happy with a B – because mostly, I just want it to be all over now!
I am going to be so sad next year when the group I have worked with for 4 years graduates! I am going to miss them so much, so I know exactly how you feel!
Good luck with your exam-I know the stress that comes with that kind stuff so I hope it goes well!
Freddy is too cute! I love getting a weekly pic of his adorable-ness!
Oh my, four years is a long time, so I totally get that it’s going to be very hard to say goodbye. Here, we usually only have the same students for a year or two anyway, but if I’d be in the same school as them, I’d still see them around, you know?
Thanks 🙂 I’m well prepared, so I should do OK. And I’m glad some Freddy cute-ness is good for your soul as well as mine 🙂
Happy Anniversary!!! And you’re too young to have a 21 year old kid!!! I always pictured you with little ones!!! You and the hubs are soooooo adorable… ha, shackled by the rings! 🙂
And break a leg with your exam!! I’m sure you’ll do fabulous, whatever question you get!!!!! How can you not, you’re so prepared!!!!!! I’m crossing my fingers for ya!
Ha! I’m not, really though – my daughter is 21 in just a month 😀 But thank you 😉 With four kids, I do have one who’s still kind of little, even if she’s not really anymore either 😉
Thank you!
Have a great week ahead, Kristin! <3
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Happy anniversary!! I’m sure you will do great with your exam. You look so prepared. Freddy is getting so big. He will be full grown before you know it. I hope you have a great week. 🙂
Thanks, Melanie 🙂 Freddy IS getting big! He’s still a baby, though, as he’s only a bit over 4 months 😀
I hope you have a great summer vacation, but I can imagine teaching your last class of the year is bittersweet. good luck with your exam! Your binder sure looks colourfull ;). And congrats on your 21st wedding anniversary!
I am always looking forward to the Freddy pictures each week, he’s so cute! It reminds me of when we had rats and all the pictures I ever shared in my Sunday posts where of them. I hope you’ll have a great week!
I’m pretty sure my summer vacation is going to be a blast, Lola 🙂 It’s always nice to be able to do other things.
Freddy is too cute not to be shared 😀 And I used to love the pictures you shared of your rats 🙂
Yay for summer break! Hope you enjoy it and good luck on your exam 😀 Also Happy Anniversary! We will be celebrating our 10th in a month and I’m so excited. Hope you have a great week and enjoy your time off!
Summer breaks are the best, Lillian 🙂 My exam went well – now I can get started on my MA thesis 😀
10 years is a feat, too, and I’m sure you’ll find a good way to celebrate.
Good luck with your exam!! Happy Anniversary – hope you had a lovely dinner out! Love the Freddy pics as always 🙂 Have a great week!
Thanks, Grace, my exam went well 🙂
21 years! That’s awesome! We just hit our 10 year wedding anniversary and it’s crazy it’s been that long!
Good luck on your exam! Also, I’m going to read your Let’s Talk About Sex post! I had a series of posts on my adult blog about sex so I am curious about that!
I know, right? I can’t believe I’ve been married for that long 😀 At the same time, it feels just right.
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It really is bittersweet teaching that last class isn’t it? I felt the same way, especially since i hope I won’t be at the school next year, which means I’m less likely to see these kiddos again 🙁
Good luck on your exam, you sure look ready! And congrats on the wedding anniversary – 21 years! We just celebrated 11 last month and that feels like forever, so I can only imagine what 21 feels like lol! Have a great week Lexxie (btw, Freddy is so adorable, I may have to add a Buffy pics of the week to my posts) !
Yeah, last class is kind of weird. My kids are much older than yours, though, I’m sure you are even more attached to your students than I have been.
Hehe, 21 does kind of feel like forever, it’s most of my adult life, for sure.
Congrats on your 21 years! I don’t know many people who have been married for a number of years. My younger brother has made it to 40 years, though, and they’ve faced some serious challenges.
You two look cute in your vow-exchanging photo.
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Thanks, Laurel-Rain 🙂
Hurray for the end of the school year and good luck on your exam! AND congrats on your anniversary! That’s amazing! I love your little weenie dog so much! What a cutie! Have a great week 😀
Thanks, Tracy 🙂
Happy 21st anniversary and your dog looks so cute!!! Here’s my Sunday Post: http://rabbitearsbookblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-sunday-post-meme-46.html
Thanks, Ronyell. Freddy is the cuteness factor of my blog these days 😉
Happy anniversary and congrats on 21 years!! Thank you for your Freddie pics!!
Thanks, Heather 🙂 And I’m glad nobody seems to be sick and tired of my Freddy pics yet 😉
It does sound bitter sweet, but you will soon be seeing fresh new faces and making more memories:) Happy Anniversary! And still loving the Freddie pics. Would love to see a video of the little guy scrambling around on those short legs of his. LOL
You’re absolutely right, Laura 🙂 I will be seeing fresh new faces in the next school year 🙂 Now my nostalgic feelings are much, much better.
I will aim for a video of Mr. Freddy next Sunday for your pleasure 😉
Good luck on the exam. I love languages and have seriously considered learning a third one. Maybe something less boring than the English & Spanish I can speak now. I would love to find a job where learning another language was required, since it would give me additional justification for spending the time.
I love languages, too! I speak three fluently, and one I can get by on. I would love to learn more as well, and once I finish Uni, I think I’ll find myself a sign language class.
I hope you’ll be able to find the motivation to learn more as well!
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yay for summer! 🙂 Happy Anniversary! Boy that Freddie sure is growing and just so adorable!!! 🙂
Have a great week!
Stormi
Thank you, Stormi 🙂 He IS getting real big. He won’t ever become huge, though, so I guess his growing may slow a little bit soon?
Have a great week yourself 🙂
Happy Anniversary! You both do look very young in the photo. That’s not a bad thing! Freddy is still a cutie! He’s grown, too! Have a great week!
Thank you, Tiffany 🙂 I agree, we do look very young in the photo – the thing is, though, I don’t feel that much different now, even if I definitely do look a bit older now 😉
Have a great week yourself!
Good luck on your exam! And Happy Anniversary! That picture is cute – how you’re both playing with your rings. Have a great week!
Thank, Christy. I thought it was funny how we were both touching those rings, unfamiliar with them, still.
Good luck on your exam today!! I have my fingers crossed for a juicy question – and I know you’ll do well!! Congrats on finishing up teaching for the year AND on 21 years of marriage. It’s quite an accomplishment we’ve both made. 😉 And I giggled over us not being kids when we got married…I kinda feel like we were! LOL Freddy is getting so big now. But I love that he can still curl up into a ball on your lap. What a sweetie! Thanks for the shout-out and keep an eye out for those books & best friends posts…it’s a month-long feature! 😀
I’m missing you fiercely today wifey! I hope we can chat soon. We leave for Dallas on Thursday.
**BIG HUGS** <3 <3
I got the question I wanted to get – where I had links to all the other articles we had read during the semester. Now, I just have to hope my professor agrees with what I had to say about it all.
He can just curl up in a ball on my lap – I need to get a bigger lap, actually if we’re to keep that up.
I’ll be looking for you in chat today as well. Miss you lots, wifey! *BIG HUGS*
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Happy 21st anniversary to you and your husband! Love your fur baby pics. My male cat didn’t come home, and it’s been weeks now so I have lost hope. On the plus side, we found nice homes for the puppies, and my other cat is pregnant! God, help me. I’m excited though because I’m going to keep at least 2 of them.
Oh no, Lekeisha! I’m sorry your cat still hasn’t come home 🙁 And at the same time, Im all excited that you’ve found nice homes for the puppies, AND that your other cat is pregnant. Busy times ahead, for sure!
Happy anniversary!! 21 years is a fabulous milestone! 🙂 And good luck on your exam. I hope you kill it. 😉
Thank you, SJ! It is quite a milestone. Some days, it feels like we’ve been married for 100 years 😉 others like we’ve just met…
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Happy anniversary! Freddy is so cute, I love the curled up picture. I am so looking forward to summer vacation. I am looking forward to sleeping in (hopefully) on any given day off. I am wired to awaken at 0530 everyday, even on my days off just to get the kids ready for school.
Thank you, Karen 🙂 I hope you’ll be able to sleep in a bit during the summer – it’s so nice to wake up later than usual 🙂
Love the Freddy pictures. I am sure he brings laughter and joy to the family. Happy Anniversary.
Freddy does bring laughter and joy, and lots of love and cuddles to our family, Nise’ 🙂
Wow! 21 years married is awesome! Congrats!
Wow… teaching is over for the year… time has flown. Good luck in you exam!
Yeah 21 years is a LONG time 😉 :p
Happy 21st anniversary! That is an amazing feat!
Summer is always such an amazing yet heartbreaking time!
Thank you, Lyn 🙂 In some ways it actually makes me feel a bit old 😀