My Morning Cuppa

The long weekend has become history, and here's where I will be soon (or depending when you read this, where I am or was). This is my desk at school with  the stack of papers I didn't get graded over the weekend and my plastic cup from Fenway Park.   Fenway Park is the historic home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, but I wasn't at a baseball game when I acquired this cup. In January they sometimes turn the baseball field into a hockey rink and have a series of games called the Winter Classic.  A few years back my college hockey team was playing in the Winter Classic and we went, and I bought a cup of hot coco in this cup. Even though we were outside it wasn't very cold; we got lucky at it was 55 degrees Fahrenheit in January in Boston.
And we won the game too! That's always an added bonus.
Anyhow, enough about a hockey game that happened 4 years ago. I am showing you my cup because it is Tuesday which means Elizabeth is hosting T Stands for Tuesday  .This is my morning cup of tea that gets me started at work. Right now I just have some plain old black tea-Lipton to be exact! But it is still a good way to get a work day started.

And to go with this tea I WISH I had another piece of this birthday cake right now.(Not that I need it, the winter pounds are starting to show up-GRRRR). This is from this past Saturday at my mother-in-law's 82nd  birthday party.

We all went out to a restaurant and had lunch and celebrated.

There were 17 of us- all 3 of my mother-in-laws children, their spouses, all of her 5 grandchildren, 3 boyfriends of the grandchildren, and the parents of 1 of the boyfriends who live out in New York state and happen to be in town this weekend visiting their son. We like this restaurant because they have this HUGE table that sits us all comfortably in its own private little alcove.
Because it is in the town I teach in, I also ran into 3 former students who are now out in the working/college world. It was great to see them too.
Here's a few more photos.

You can see the little snow we got that morning. This is where we ate in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

 And a cool reflection.

The rest of my long weekend I literally stayed home in my sweatpants and did some cleaning (maybe not fun but always good to get it done), watched bits some other football playoff games, did a bunch of knitting while I watched those games and made some art (which is always fun). Oh yes and I had to shovel since yesterday we got a bit of snow in the morning.
Now I am back at school and the last week of this semester is starting. In a week these students will be gone and I'll get a whole new faces, but the exciting part is my pet microbiology class is starting. It is a junior/senior elective and I just love teaching this class.
How is your week going so far?