Grateful Friday

 Adam is coming home today!

Super grateful about that.

(Sad he's leaving again next week....)

I'm grateful for this weekend though!

Yesterday I wore my bright red boots to school for the first time, pictured here with the backdrop of my elegant classroom carpet.

People made comments....  My favorite comment came from a teeny tiny kindergartner.  She passed me and I thought, "What a cute sweater."

She called back to me, "I love your boots!"

We should go shopping together.

I loved at lunch when several 1st and 2nd grade teachers said my boots reminded them of Lily's Purple Plastic Purse.

These are people that have a book for everything.  I'm grateful for teacher friends.

I'm grateful for reading parties.

My class earned a reward and the reward they chose was a reading party.  I let them wear their pjs and the entire day had a holiday air about it.

One student came in a full body Pokemon suit and he went around offering hugs in the morning because he was so soft and fuzzy.  I 100% took him up on the offer.

In the afternoon I dimmed the lights and everyone got cozy. I read to them and they read silently.  I only did the silent reading for about 15 minutes, because I know our limits, but it felt dreamy.

I'm grateful for my activity day leader calling.  I 100% feel like I am getting away with something that that is my calling.  We had activity day at my house yesterday and I parsed out my marble run into ziplock bags and had them create something.  Then I told them about the scripture in Corinthians that talks about the church as a body.  I told them that we need each other and the different gifts and contributions people can make.   Then I had them work together and pool their resources and they built this amazing marble run using every single piece.

Look for those boys to be engineers someday!

It was really fun.