Saturday, August 25, 2007
Reasons to Cry

I have been asked repeatedly to get my butt in gear and blog again on Prattletale. I know, I know I let it go by the wayside as life completely encompassed me, but I shall try to do better.

Now that that's out of the way, yesterday was Jesselyn's birthday. She is officially a teenager. She's beautiful, and everything I could ever ask for in a daughter. I am so happy God gave me her.

I cried yesterday in school--twice.

The first time I was in the hallway discussing something with another 4th grade teacher (btw, I changed grades this year--for those of you who didn't know).  A third grade teacher came up to me and said "Mrs. D., today I told my students that they had 3 wishes. If they could have any three wishes in the world what would they be, and one student wrote "I wish I could have Mrs. D for my teacher every year forever."  This was one of my second graders that I had in my class last year.

The third grade teacher then said, "I hope she feels the same way about me at the end of this year." I couldn't help but think "dream on." Heh, but yes, I cried. How could I not?

I have a Special Ed. boy in my class. He's probably only included for about 10-15 minutes a day, but I've worked with him doing some activities a couple of times. I also stop and pick him up from the Special Ed. room when we go to lunch so he can walk with our class.

On Friday, I stopped to pick him up at lunchtime. He got into his place in line then paused and ran over and gave me a hug.  I told his Special Ed. teacher later that day. Her mouth dropped open and she said "Jenny, he's never hugged a teacher before, he must know you really care."  I cried again.