I love people

 Yesterday the alarm was going off on my phone at 8:15 like it does every morning to remind me to take roll.  You would think that I wouldn't need a daily alarm for that, but I 100% do.  I always am engrossed in something else.

My phone was in my bag and my watch no longer cooperates with my phone so I couldn't turn off the alarm immediately.  One of my students asked, "What's your phone's code?"

I rattled off the six digits.

They were completely tickled.  "Ooooh!  We know your code!"

I said, "My own children can't remember it, so I'm not worried."

(Honestly, my kids ask me over and over when they need my phone.  This is the first code they haven't immediately hacked.  Maybe they don't care so much anymore.)

I said, "You won't remember it."

A boy said, "Wait!  You literally just said it and I can't remember it already."

"What was it?" they asked each other.  "She just said it."

"Tell us again!"

I just shrugged and went on with math, confident my secret is safe.

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Today is my little sister Olivia's birthday!  How I love that girl.  She has an unconquerable spirit and a big heart.  On New Year's Day when we had the ladies' brunch at her house, she mentioned that she had lost (a pretty big) lamp that had been moved when she put her Christmas tree up.  We played after the manner of the adverb and when the word was regally, she went into the other room and returned immediately with a tiara.

She couldn't find her lamp, but she had a tiara at her fingertips.  That tells you everything you need to know about Olivia.  (And she since found the lamp!)

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I had a hair appointment with my friend Joelyn last evening.  I always look forward to our visits.  We chat about books and podcasts and TV shows and we grab our phones to record notes and she usually sends me follow up texts.  We talk about our mutually agreed exceptional granddaughters and the ways our children are doing a better job with them than we did with our children.

I never knew, ten years ago when I called up a random person, who according to the internet was a specialist with curly hair, that I would make a friend.