Grateful

I am grateful for many things, but tonight I am especially grateful for dollar movies, popcorn, bite size candy bars and chocolate chip cookies.

Paul is off playing guitar with friends, and Eliza and Sarah are spending the night with their cousins. Sleepovers are a very rare thing around here, so this is especially exciting for my girls. It also means that it is especially difficult for the younger siblings. So to appease Luke and Leah I resorted to the above mentioned goodies. I even let them pick out their own movie. That is also a very rare thing around here. After renting the movies we came home, made the popcorn, turned off all the lights and watched Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit until way passed their bedtime.

We (mostly I) decided one movie was enough for tonight, so we are going to watch Bee Movie as soon as we wake up in the morning. We will have to make some special letter B and actual bee shaped pancakes to celebrate our morning movie madness.

Preschool

My mom came for a visit and shared these photos with me. The first is one of my childhood homes. My family lived here when I was born, and we didn't move until I was in the middle of first grade. I have so many fond memories of sneaking down the staircase when I was supposed to be in bed, riding Tonka trunks down the drive, stepping on a nail in the old silo pit, sliding down sand piles (a gravel pit was located a ways behind our home), and sliding in snow too.

I was especially happy to see this little red school house standing though. This is where I went to preschool. I remember playing Farmer in the Dell, playing musical chairs and singing "I Know an Old Lady." So Fun! I'm so glad I have decided to become a teacher so I can go back to school.