I haven't written a blog post in a long time. If you are reading this, please understand the purpose of my blog. I never started it with the intent to document my life or keep you informed about what is happening. I wrote it to give my soul a voice. I wrote it to give me a place to remember that I can't always be logical and rational. Sometimes- a person just has to follow the little voice in them that says, "Live."
These are the moments when I felt most alive recently.
- I loved just chatting with another teacher at the school. It wasn't about school- it was about life. I don't know that I let that happen nearly as often as I should.
- Older K on Christmas- I LOVE the amazing little lady she is becoming! She was so nice and polite opening presents, and she is such a good older sister. Every time she ran to the camera to say thanks to my parents, I was so thrilled to hear it!
- Little K on Christmas- I love listening to her talk. I just wanted to let her play with her presents, and it was so sad to watch them get taken away- even if it was so she could open another. Ok, sad, but at the same time- so cute in a "the little things in life make you happy" kind of way.
- E- she was so excited to get the bubble wrap from my Mom's present. She put it out as a "road" in the hallway and ran back and forth on it forever. She also insisted that we walk on it on our way upstairs. That in itself was adorable and made me smile.
- I have to admit, for the rest of the day I walked on the bubblewrap too because it just made me happy.
- I own a unicorn named PJ. (Pearl James) Andy gave her to me for Christmas, and the entire drive home the other night all I wanted to do was pet her over and over. She is so soft and I love unicorns. (For those of you who missed the memo- I used to have half dozen unicorn posters hanging on my walls, and I really believed some day I would find a real one...)
- Andy gave me an xylophone for Christmas too. It is supposed to be for something for my classroom, but I started playing music on it the other day. It was so fun!
- Christmas service at the Rock church. I just felt at peace singing to the music. There is a lot of stuff in my head most of the time, but there my soul was shining through.
- Santa Jello Desserts - I like jello. It was fun to make them, even if they didn't end up looking like Santa.
- I can make a good hors-d'oeurve! I am not good at appetizers and party food, but I went to a party last week that served these really good cheese/bread things. I asked how to make them and they were SO easy!!! I am excited to be able to make something "fancy" for a future party.
