I may have mentioned in my last few posts that I am drowning in all things having to do with the beginning of the school year. And, when I mention it, I usually get a comment or two (or eleven or twelve) saying that you are in the same boat and neither of us can find the oars, and it doesn’t matter anyway, because the ship is sinking.
So.
Let’s put a little bit of treasure in that ship and cheer up. What do you say?
I’m super excited to be teaming up with my favorite freebie-friends for a BIG giveaway to help get you going this school year. Over at the Freebielicious blog, we’re giving away a BIG, GRAND PRIZE (scroll down to the bottom of this post to read all about it!) and right here on my little blog, I’m giving away $25.00 to the only thing that has saved my sanity so far this year: STARBUCKS!
I usually only get Starbucks on the weekend. It’s a bit of a tradition with my husband, Murphie, and me. We get Starbucks and go to the park.
However, this year, I find myself there more often during the week as I’m in survival mode and it is allowed.
I also found a new drink which I talked about on Instagram.
My usual is a Grande Non-Fat White Mocha Stirred with Whip.
If only I had the time to sit and drink it out of a mug like this.
Next to a roaring fire.
Wearing a scarf.
But last weekend, I found this drink:
Salted Caramel Mocha
I wish I hadn’t found it. Because now I’m a little addicted and I wake up wanting it.
Yesterday morning, I ordered it this way: Grande Non-fat Salted Caramel White Mocha with Whip.
Holy Deliciousness. I might have texted everyone I knew.
Anyways, whether you like black coffee or iced coffee or hot chocolate or even a bagel, you might want to enter to win this!
Please enter with integrity, using the Rafflecopter below. I’ll choose a winner a week from today.
But . . . before you go . . .
The Freebielicious girls know how much of your own hard-earned money goes into buying supplies, tissues, books, and classroom décor to get your classroom “kid-ready,” (not to mention how we sometimes try to hide it from the hubbies and that’s no easy task, either) and we want to be able to put some of that money right back into your pocket. Over at the Freebielicious blog, we are giving away a $300 Visa gift card!
I KNOW!!!!!!
To enter the BIG GIVEAWAY, click HERE or on the button below!
Also, while you’re there, be sure to check out what the other Freebie-ladies are giving away. Be prepared for some AMAZING prizes. Take a peek at some of them below!
Favorite hot drink soy peppermint mocha no whip. Favorite cold drink unsweetened passion iced tea lemonade.
Hot caramel macchiato!!
Pumpkin Spice & Camel Apple Spice!!
Iced Peppermint Mocha! They have the peppermint year round!!! 🙂
-Elyse @ A is for Apples
My favorite Starbucks drink is any of their iced teas!
Any of their iced coffees!
I love my standard iced grande nonfat chai…but your options sound awesome, too!! 🙂
Hot caramel macchiato is my favorite!
Hot caramel macchiato!
cinnamon dulce latte is divine!
Nonfat chai tea latte! Yum!
Nonfat chai or black ice tea, unsweetened (but then I add sweetner because I am too embarrassed to ask for sweetner when I just asked for it unsweetened!)
I have so many favorites. I love caramel frappucinos and the white chocolate mocha. Yummy!
White Chocolate Mocha! 🙂
White chocolate mocha! Yum!
I love Caramel Mocha all year long, but during the holidays I love me a good Pumpkin Spice Latte! yum!
Pumpkin Spice Latte! Yum!
Pumpkin Spice Latte! And have you ever had their pumpkin scones? They are SO GOOD!
My favorites depend on the temperature outside. Right now it is super hot so I am craving Mocha Frapps. But when it turns a little cooler: Pumpkin Spice Latte and then…Peppermint Mocha Latte!
White chocolate mocha!
I love the pumpkin spice latte!
I'm looking forward to the 1st pumpkin latte of the season!
I'm all about a venti iced coffee with skim! Although pretty soon I'll need to make the switch to something a bit warmer 🙂
Paige
Paiges of Learning
Vanilla latte!
Chai tea frapp is my fav =9
I'm usually a skinny vanilla latte, but I may have to try the white mocha next time.
Nonfat Hazelnut Latte is my go to drink.
Krazy Town
I love a coffee Frappuccino light! Yum! I also like iced coffee and pumpkin lattes…I could go on.
I love pumpkin spice lattes when they're here. Otherwise I love caramel macchiato with extra caramel of course 🙂
What a fun giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity! Hope our classroom routines settle in soon for all of us.
Iced Vanilla Macchiato!
Iced coffee with sugar free cinnamon dolche syrup!
My usual drink is tall, non-fat, decaf, half raspberry, half vanilla, mocha, no whip. I know, it's a mouthful.
I love mochas and chai 🙂
What I Have Learned
Pumpkin spice and carmel apple spice!!!!!!
You have good taste. I like white mocha too. And peppermint mocha. And green tea frappuchinno.
Depends on the season – white chocolate mocha is usually my go to drink, hot or iced, during the fall when the pumpkin spice latte comes out, I switch. It's really hard to pick just one drink! LOL
I love to get a sweetened passion fruit iced tea.
Frappucino anything! Oooh and their chai tea. YUM.
Salted Caramel Frappucino is my favorite!
Hot chocolate and the Chocolate Chip Frappucino – Thanks for doing the giveaway!
Starbucks…YUM!!! I like their iced teas! My favorites are green tea and blackberry mojito tea lemonade. Sooooo good!!!
recipeforteaching
I like the iced coffee.
I'm a Grande White Mocha, or a Grande Pumpkin Spice girl, but I will DEFINITELY be trying that yummy variation of the Salted Caramel White Mocha you talked about up there!!!!
New Adventures in Elementary
~Nadya
White mocha
Pumpkin Spice Latte!
Hi Kristen, I was wondering how I can join Freebielicious with my blog: kfundamentals.blogspot.com ??? 🙂
Love a soy misto!
I have a Venti quad iced vanilla latte EVERY, SINGLE, DAY. It is a necessity.
Iced Pumpkin Spiced Latte's are always my favorite. Now I can't wait to try the Salted Caramel!
Glad you are doing this giveaway…I thought I was already following your store, but wasn't. I am now! ?
Favorite drink….Creme Brûlée Frappacino!
OH. MY. GOSH. Girl, you are a genius. Salted caramel WHITE mocha!?!?!? Guaranteed this will be my new favorite- usually I get raspberry white mocha! THANK YOU! 🙂
Yum! Today my favourite is pumpkin spice latte!!! so good!
Double chocolate chip frappacino……….divine!!
Yesterday I ordered a Caramel Macchiato Frappucino (Vanilla Bean Frapp with 2 shots espresso & caramel drizzle). It was AWESOME!!! So much better than the normal iced Caramel Macchiato 🙂
I hate all things coffee but I love peppermint hot choc and chai tea lattes!
Liz
Love the caramel macchiato with a slice of banana nut bread!
My favorite iced drink is a Green Tea Lemonade. My favorite hot drink is a Salted Carmel Hot Chocolate. I can't believe it is almost time to switch from cold to hot!
My favorite is Apple Chai. It is heated apple juice and chai tea, it's so good !
I love caramel macchiato and now with fall the spiced pumpkin lattes! yumm!
I'm drinking a vanilla latte as I type, but reading this post, I just want more! Would love to fund my caffeine habit for a while 🙂
Pumpkin Spice Latte…delish!
teachertonyak@hotmail.com
I like anything vanilla, but that salted caramel one looks delish!
My favorite drink is a Peppermint Latte
I can drink this year round!
I love me some caramel macchiatos and caramel apple spices!!!
-Caitlyn
Fourth Grade Lemonade
Obsessed with the salted caramel as well! So good and definitely needed these days.
I like pumpkin spice in the fall and in the summer, iced mocha with only one scoop of syrup.
Hot beverage: awake tea soy latte sweetened! Cold beverage: iced tea passion lemonade OR strawberry lemonade! Yum yum yum!
I'm not a coffee drinker so every weekend I get a Chai Tea!
Ahh… Iced White Chocolate Mocha with no whip… Mmm!!!
Ahhhhhh……..pumpkin spice latte! I love it and I love Fall!! I hope I win!
Pumpkin spice latte…I may or may not have had one today!
Hot Chocolate, my hubbies is Caramel Machiato (sp?). We don't have a Starbucks close to us. So they are big time treats for us.
My favorite drink is a carmel macciato, cold or hot!
I'm drooling over the salted caramel…gotta try it. My favorite is a triple shot mocha grande with whip.
I usually just get iced green tea, sweetend. But now that fall is here, I'm going to get a pumpkin spice latte every now and then! Thanks for hosting a give-away!
Stephanie
Tales of Teaching in Heels
Peppermint mocha!
Gingerbread Latte is my fave!
I love reading your blog. You make me laugh out loud!
White chocolate mocha. But now I need to try a salted carmel white chocolate mocha! Yummy!!!
grande non fat mocha, no whip! One of the teachers at school is buying starbucks for us tomorrow! I am pumped 🙂
Double chocolatey-chip frap. Sugar-high!
Apple chai- yum!
I love the Pumpkin Spice Latte…hot or cold = YUMMY!!
I love hot chocolate!
Love your blog……and pumpkin spice lattes!
I LOVE Chai Lattes iced or hot and also the frappuchinos! I might have the try the salted caramel mocha…
Good ole BLACK STRONG coffee!!! Love it. I use Starbucks French roast beans all the time in my automatic espresso machine & make Americanos & at Starbucks store- whatever is their strongest brew of the day. YUM!!!!!!
I can drink about a bajillion Caramel Brulee Latte's once they come out with the other holiday drinks. Totally delicious!
Java Chip Frapp …any time of day!
Sara
Teaching Munchkins
I absolutely LOVE your blog! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Oh man I LOOOVE Starbucks so much I'm a Gold Card member. My current fav is a grande pumpkin spice latte with 1 pump syrup, extra hot.
Oh! So Fun! We just got a target store in my town this summer and I was so excited to find out it came with a Starbucks! Having never been there before, I was lucky that my teaching partner was an expert! She brought me a Caramel Crunch Frappuccino and I was hooked! I can't wait to try the salted caramel mocha.
My favorite depends on the time of the year – ice coffee for back to school, apple cider in the fall, and salted caramel mocha in the winter!
I actually don't like coffee..but I LOVE a strawberry Frappuccino!
~Kourtney
kourtneypayton83@gmail.com
Mrs. Payton's Precious Kindergarteners
Summer: Iced 1 pump Mocha Latte; Fall: Pumpkin Spice Latte; Winter: Peppermint mocha, Spring: Lots of Lattes to get me through the remaining year!
This time of year I love pumpkin spice latte but my go to drink is a skinny vanilla latte. Thanks!
I love an iced peach green tea in the summer!
mocha cookie crumble
venti nonfat iced chai tea latte…. That rolls off my tongue a little too easily 🙂
I love their chai latte! 🙂
I order peppermint mochas year-round. Although the PSL is always enticing at this time of year!
Pumpkin Spice Latte!
White Chocolate Mocha—-jealous because the closest Starbucks is almost an hour away–but I would savor every moment if I won!
Iced chai lattes!
White Chocolate Mocha!!!!
Have to love a Starbucks Soy Chai!
Boring I know but I love the hot chocolate!
amyjperry@gmail.com
I like Starbucks for the pastries!
Their hot chocolate. Mmm!
I either get Iced Coffee w/sugar free vanilla and skim milk or a Skinny Vanilla Macchiato
My favorite hot drink is a non-fat vanilla chai! Yum!
Double chocolate chip frapp 🙂 I also like the salted caramel frap!
Can't beat an Awake Black Tea! but I love the cookie crumble frap!
Chai tea latte is my to to drink….awesomeness in a cup!
I love a caramel frappe!
Choclate chip frapp
I'm not a coffee drinker, but I always get their hot chocolate! Yum!
My favorite Starbucks drink is a Mocha. I always like to spice it up according to the seasonal syrups: pumpkin in the fall, peppermint or gingerbread around Christmas, etc.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Iced Berry Hibiscus Refresher and the PSL and the Gingerbread Latte!:)
peppermint hot chocolate–yummm
Mocha 🙂
Ok mine might be dull, too but I am addicted to a Grande Mocha Frap Light…….LOVE IT in the afternoon after a hard's day work. During this time of year, it is a great excuse to get one!!
I never know WHAT to order at Starbucks, so I don't have a favorite! I get kind of nervous and feel rushed every time. I feel like I'm just supposed to walk right up and order with confidence. I usually end up getting a nonfat cappuccino. Boring I know. Sometimes I get wild and have them add a FLAVOR SHOT!
Cold drink: Iced Non-fat mocha. Yum.
Hot Drink: Caramel Macchiato. Double Yum.
I fell in love with the cinnamon dolce latte. Do they even still have that?
Pumpkin Spice Latte!!! I live for the fall!!!
I love mocha frappuccino!
~Amanda S.
Hot Chocolate!
Hot chocolate for me
I will have to try your new drink! It sounds delicious!!
Thanks for the great giveaway 🙂 I love vanilla bean frappucinos the best!
My go to drink is an iced green tea sweetened or a no whip caramel frap!
Chi latte with soy milk….. Yumm yummm!
I love when they have the toasted coconut frap
I don't drink coffee but at this time of the school year, I WISH I DID!!!
Grande Soy No Water Chai Tea. Mmmmm. 🙂
I'm a fan of the refreshers (especially the Very Berry one!) and when it's cold outside I like the Caramel Apple Spice. Yummy!! Now I'm thirsty!
I've been loving the Valencia Orange Refreshers this summer. PSLs are my all time favorite though!
Egg nog latte! Love the taste but it means we're gearing up for Christmas! Thanks for this giveaway!
It's a toss up as I am shamelessly addicted to Starbucks. Pumpkin pie spice or gingerbread.
I absolutely love the hot chocolate with whipped cream.
My favorite is Iced Chai Tea Latte
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I like the Java Chip.
I love the Strawberry and Cream Fraps.
Mocha Latte
Mocha Frap all the way!
I'm a coffee purist (snob). I don't like sweet coffee, but I'm a sucker for well-prepared foam. My drink is a double tall nonfat cappuccino.
Usually just hot chocolate, but I'm going to try your new favorite!
Love all coffee esp hazelnut with half half
Sometimes I go in not for the coffee but for the Green Tea Frappuccino! Not always on the menu, but it's there!
strawberry frappuccino or a raspberry lemonade ice tea. Thanks for a chance to win.
My favorites are the seasonal lattes, gingerbread and pumpkin spice!
Love the Frappacino's – shaunie
I love pumpkin latte!
Sweet Passion Fruit Iced tea
Mocha Chip Frap…IV stat!
Blackberry Mojito Tea
That was easy!!! Vente, Skinny, 180 degree Caramel Macchiato. Sipping hot…mmmmmm.
Thank you for your generosity, to the "Lucky" winner! <3
Hilarious as always
Caramel macchiato with soy milk. 🙂
Caramel Macchiato
I love their caramel lattes and the salted caramel one looks delicious!!
Caramel Frappe!!!!!
Caramel Vanilla Latte
i love their vanilla latte!
My favorite starbucks drink is a pumpkin spice latte.
Ms. King's Kinders
My fave is a soy chai latte…helps when you've lost your voice (like me right now!).
Lovin' the passion fruit iced teas! Thanks for a great giveaway!
I love the pumpkin spice latte very, very much but I normally get an iced coffee with soy milk 🙂
I'm a simple kind of girl and always go for their hot chocolate 🙂
Julie
The hot chocolates are awesome! Thank you for the great giveaway!
I like there iced coffee.
rounder9834 @yahoo.com
Enjoy hot cocoa and some banana bread! Thank you very much.
Salted caramel hot chocolate
i love mocha frappicinos!