Bottlebrush with dew taken at my school
I was laid off today or as my dad calls it, "Liberation!". Either way I am fine with it. I like being a teacher but it isn't the beginning or end of who I am. I decided that there would be no better time to stop and make a list of the things I am in love with right now then, well...right now! Here goes nothing (also you should stop reading now if you are tired of my happy lists because clearly your heart is three sizes too small!)
A Happy List for Being Laid Off:
-The new, improved, enlarged garden!
-The little baby poppies coming up everywhere I turn around
-When I hear tiny, little, 2nd grade voices saying things that I say, like: "Is that helping our class?" "We're not talking about dinosaurs right now, we are talking about fractions-that is irrelevant." "Whose jacket is this, I am not your mother!" (all of these hilarious when said dead serious sometimes accompanied by hands on hips).
-Early morning hikes in the desert
-Camping with friends
-Cheddarwursts over a fire with some hard apple cider
-The tadpoles finally turning into frogs
-Blood orange ice cream syrup (heads up for a blog about this disaster)
-Krakatoa's fresh squeezed orange juice
-Playing Puerto Rico with friends
-Daydreaming about my upcoming Costa Rica trip and all the photographing that will be done
-Tiny Wings app on my iPhone
-Students moving up reading levels...how exciting to see kids go from struggling readers to fluent readers!
-Blood orange cosmos
-The little baby asparagus that are starting to grow
-Sugar snap peas straight off the vine
-My Etsy account (http://www.etsy.com/shop/PepperTreePrints?ref=si_shop)
-Working in Adobe Lightroom 3 with some photos...see them at the Etsy store (is this shameless self-promotion?)
-Shameless self-promotion :)
-Brisk morning and warm afternoons
-Another hour of daylight to play outside in
-Playing Words with Friends with far away friends
-The Hillcrest Farmer's Market and the people watching opportunity it presents
-Daydreaming about what my next career will be
I added a few pictures of my favorite things too!
A funny little eraser face I found in a pencil box...
I wonder who was doing this and not paying attention to my droning on and on?
I wonder who was doing this and not paying attention to my droning on and on?
The logo for my Etsy store that I painted myself!
The daisies by our mailbox.
A letter one of my students wrote. Translation below:
Dear Ms. Aldrich,
A love you, and
you are so pretty.
And (your) eyes are pretty.
And (your) hair is so pretty.
Possibly the worst picture of the digestive system ever...
I'm not sure how the small intestine attaches to the heart
or why there are no veins/arteries in the legs.
A ranuncula in our garden
A picture on my drive home from camping
A poppy from the Hillcrest FarMar
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