Only 9 hours til the start of Spring Break! Could I be any more ready?! That's the voice of all who work in a school system. In Special Ed, it's a much needed and awaited respice. We're in the middle of the "piled-high-to-the-sky" paperwork that's involved with special ed. It's like trying to teach while juggling 3 balls and reciting the U.S. Constitution all at the same time. Truly exhausting!! So today at 1:45 will mark the start of 9 days of doing whatever I want, WHENEVER I want!! Yeeeeaaaaaa! We've set up a lose agenda for our trip to the Mississippi River. So guess what we have to go out and buy tonight? Luggage! Can you believe it? After 36 years of marriage, we don't have a set of luggage....you know, nice matching, many pieces, luggage......like adults have hahahaha. We've never been much for traveling, never going more than an hour away. But now we want to travel a bit and not look like the Beverly Hillbillies when we do it. hahaha I'll let you know what color I choose!
Lately, I've been thinking about different moments in my life. My short term memory sucks, but I can recollect a time when I was a kid like it was yesterday. Go figure. I remember a day in kindergarden.....it must have been before Christmas because I had a gift for my Mom. Remember those hand prints you made in school with clay? It was all painted up and wrapped in Christmas paper I painted myself. It was probably the first gift I'd ever made and given to my Mom. We were standing in line, waiting to be dismissed and in a second....everything changed. I dropped it......... I picked it up and it was now "loose" and wiggly. My teacher said it might still be okay (what was she supposed to say, I'm sure she wanted me out the door with the least resistance so she could start HER break...I know the feeling), so even though that didn't make sense to me, I thought maybe it could be true.....maybe it WAS okay. So I went home and put it under the tree, feeling it everyday....probably hoping it would heal somehow before Christmas. I cried when Mom opened it. One little moment in my life changed so much. That's what happened to me last summer, but now I've experienced enough "living" to know that even though there are no do-overs, as long as I'm breathing, I'll get other opportunities to create endearing moments.
They're predicting a blizzard for tonight............but I'm ignoring it.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens
Live in the Moment!
Lori
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