This week I’m thankful for…

• crisp clear days when I can make the short drive to school with the top down and the seat warmers on high.  34 degrees out?  Pffft!  Perfect convertible weather!
• my little one who sang Silent Night to the class.  She didn’t quite get all the words right, but frankly “holy infinity so tender and wild” is beautiful and profound
• coffee with good friends
• Christmas music in the morning
• reading The Velveteen Rabbit to my class
• the melted crayon Christmas tree batiks I made with my class and the parent volunteers who made painting with hot waxy cups of melted crayons with 30 first graders doable
• the fact that I did not set the off the smoke detector when ironing the wax out of the batiks-that’s a Festivus miracle right there!