This week I’m thankful for…

• my grade level partners who always have my back
• parents of current and former students who intrinsically seem to know when I need to hear that I’m doing a good job
• our school librarian for saying I’m the perfect teacher for my most challenging student
• my husband for encouraging me to always listen to my heart when it comes to doing what is best for children
• my sixth grade student TA who looked at our dragonfly nymphs and said “Isn’t it amazing that something so ugly turns into something so beautiful?”  Exactly.
• pedicures
• dates with my mom
• The Sound of Music, which always makes me tear up at least a little, especially at the lyric “I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.”
• reading solely for the pleasure of it
• lazy Saturdays when I read nap and Terry watches baseball naps, too
• warm rain that compels Terry to usher me outside to smell it
• the small window each week wherein all the laundry is washed and put away and the laundry hamper is empty
• walking home from church under a sky of thunderheads that held off the rain long enough for me to make it home
• the little boy who brought his skateboard in as his “Mostest special thing, ever, in the world.  Ever.”
• my darling former student who brought her bunny by after school so I could “finally meet him”.  Henry the Bunny is now my favorite bunny.  Although chocolate bunnies are a close second.
• this clip from 365grateful.com