Hey, y'all! It's been awhile since I did one of these check-ins, huh? I would like to say that I've come here to tell you that activity on the blog is about to pick back up and be more consistent, but I can't.

Life has been pretty hectic lately. All aspects. Even my Fall Break! I've always been the type of person who struggles with downtime, especially extended periods of it. I guess when you've never really had any, you get used to always needing to be productive. But lately I've been struggling to find any downtime at all...especially mentally. I can take a day to do nothing, but I can't always turn my brain off.

What I'm trying to say is that I'll try to be more consistent with blog content, but I can't realistically promise multiple posts a week right now. My mental load is pretty high these days, making it tough to be creative. That said, I'm pretty well planned out for the rest of this calendar year for school, so that does free up some of my brain space. However, I do have a tower of assignments for my teacher certification course to slog through between now and the end of November. I'm trying to work ahead, though, so that I can breathe a little freer this nine weeks. I've managed to get one out-of-district field experience completed, and I only need two more to get my in-district ones out of the way.

In other news...I passed my certification tests! I've had my results for awhile, and I'm pretty sure I posted about it on social media, but I never got around to sharing it here. So that's a big weight off my shoulders.

I'm sure I'm leaving other stuff out. Life has been moving so quickly that it's easy to forget things. Anyway, I'm going to end with a photo dump from our annual visit to Scarecrows in the Gardens. This year's theme had something to do with famous art.