Summer is finally here!!!

Tomorrow is the last day of the 2009-2010 school year for the teachers and staff at CES. It is always a bittersweet day for me. I miss the kids already. They become such a huge part of your life. I sometimes feel like I see my school kids more than my own! Next year some will come back to visit or say hello, but they must inevitably move on to bigger and better things. I'm so proud of all our kids accomplished this year! I'm so glad I had the privilege of being one of the people to welcome them into the world of education that they will live in for many years to come. I hope that I helped instill a love of education in them. I hope that I encouraged them to want to know more and not be satisfied until they do. I love my job! Who else can say that they get paid to play with play doh and color and pretend? Who else gets paid to invent new games and act out stories and play in paint? Who else gets to go to work and have a pretend birthday party, attend a rock concert, and build a pirate ship and all in one day?! I've got the best job in the world!
I'm so excited to get to come home and do all those things with my girls for two months! I can't wait to got to the summer reading program at the library with my girls or go to the dollar movies. I can't wait to swing and laugh and play at the playground or splash in the pool. I can't wait to stay up late and cuddle close on the couch to watch old movies that make us laugh and cry. I can't wait to play outside and chase bugs and plant flowers. I can't wait to take them skating and laugh when they beg me to try it to. There are so many things I can't wait to do. It would take the whole summer to get them all written down.
Every summer is always "going to be the best summer yet" and I have no doubt that this one will live up to that statement just as each has before.
I'm so grateful for my life and I just can't wait to see what God has in store for me next!

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Found this little guy on the top of my car. He was so funny looking that I just had to take a picture. His front legs were longer than his whole body! He was very sweet and posed for several shots before deciding that he was done with me. Was hard to get a non-blurry shot because he was SO tiny! Just thought he was interesting....