When having the kiddos help switch up their dramatic play center turns into a brainstorming session on how we can make an ice cream truck to go with it. To be continued... 👷🏻‍♀️🧰

The “Sand (Beach) Ice Cream Truck” is ready to go for our last full week of school!

Happy Father’s Day 💜

Kicking off Year 9! 🤯🤗🥳

Sunset on the Parkway with a near run-in with some cows 👀🖤

Proud to work with Dr. Teresa Caswell and Parkside_AP - this just reinforces what all of us Pipers know so well already 💜💜

Spent the weekend in our favorite place. There are more childhood memories here than I can count and all of them touched by Uncle Kenneth, who passed just over a week ago. He is forever a part of this place and a part of each of us 🖤

Well this is amazing 😱😍 Check out my cousin’s book - out in just a few weeks on Oct. 5!

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Like I need a reason to celebrate my family but was excited to get this fun new shirt in the mail 🤗🇲🇽🇪🇸

No big deal (ahem, a big deal), just reading about my cousin in The NY Times 😍 One week until pub day! Jocelyn L Johnson nytimes.com/2021/09/28/sty…

First Monday of Track out spent watching my cousin Jocelyn L Johnson on Good Morning America! 👀🥳 My Monticello hits shelves tomorrow!

Yessss Chris Liles! 🥳👏🏻👏🏻

Saving our school from the “fire” and working on our fine motor skills at the same time 😉 “don’t worry, Ms. Gonzales, I’ll save you!”

Closing out the first week of our Buildings study with a scavenger hunt for building features!

Just called this and oh my goodness this is precious and hilarious and adorable 🥺🖤🖤

14 year old Ashley says Go Heels 💙

As an East Gaston alum and a former classmate of River’s brother, so proud of my fellow Mt. Holly native! 💜

Today officially begins the 22-23 school year + my 10th (🤯) year in education in a new role as a Kindergarten teacher after 9 years in PreK Sped 🥳💜

wanderings on the fourth 🖤

on this last day of Hispanic heritage month, thinking of my great-uncle Ben Gonzales. The first Hispanic police chief of San Bernardino County, CA & the survivor of an shooting in the line of duty. pictured here with my dad a few years ago, he passed at 94 earlier this morning 💜