Now its official.
(edited later becuase I fell asleep and didn't finish the post)
Today (Tuesday) was such a beautiful day today. The weather was a balmy 70 instead of 95, the kids and I spent a lot of time outside (they actually played leapfrog and 4 Square- did we time travel to the 1940s or something?) I also was outside in the Barnes and Noble- Bilbo's Pizza area of Westnedge and the smell of freshly baked Krispy Kreme doughnuts drifted out over the parking lot. It was a sharp reminder of every fall when the families from school all come out to Verhage Fruit Farms and we go on hay rides, drink fresh-squeezed apple cider and eat doughnuts still warm from being cooked. Mmmmm. I used to hate it when summer would fade away, but now fall is becoming my favorite season, despite the knowledge of the impending months of freezing cold.
I was at work today and we were doing random art during free time and I was cutting paper and trying to remember how to make a snowflake and I jokingly put one of my mistakes on the top of a kid's head and it made a perfect "fox ear" hat. Of course at least 7 other kids eventually needed one of my mistakes. The look of the kids with pointy ears popping out of their heads amused me probably a little more than was necessary, butI was really tired at the time and I ended up laughing and couldn't stop. A few minutes later I am handed a folded and smudged piece of paper. I open it up and printed in the halting hand of one of my kids who is going into first grade, "You are the weirdest teacher." I'm thinking of havingit framed, 'cause damn it- I am the weirdest teacher- and I'm porud of it! (I think I also was encouraging them to dance with me to some song from Lion King around the same time.)
(edited later becuase I fell asleep and didn't finish the post)
Today (Tuesday) was such a beautiful day today. The weather was a balmy 70 instead of 95, the kids and I spent a lot of time outside (they actually played leapfrog and 4 Square- did we time travel to the 1940s or something?) I also was outside in the Barnes and Noble- Bilbo's Pizza area of Westnedge and the smell of freshly baked Krispy Kreme doughnuts drifted out over the parking lot. It was a sharp reminder of every fall when the families from school all come out to Verhage Fruit Farms and we go on hay rides, drink fresh-squeezed apple cider and eat doughnuts still warm from being cooked. Mmmmm. I used to hate it when summer would fade away, but now fall is becoming my favorite season, despite the knowledge of the impending months of freezing cold.
I was at work today and we were doing random art during free time and I was cutting paper and trying to remember how to make a snowflake and I jokingly put one of my mistakes on the top of a kid's head and it made a perfect "fox ear" hat. Of course at least 7 other kids eventually needed one of my mistakes. The look of the kids with pointy ears popping out of their heads amused me probably a little more than was necessary, butI was really tired at the time and I ended up laughing and couldn't stop. A few minutes later I am handed a folded and smudged piece of paper. I open it up and printed in the halting hand of one of my kids who is going into first grade, "You are the weirdest teacher." I'm thinking of havingit framed, 'cause damn it- I am the weirdest teacher- and I'm porud of it! (I think I also was encouraging them to dance with me to some song from Lion King around the same time.)
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