Snow Day, Snow Day, Yay No Work Today!

After serious thought, I have decided that I should get every Wednesday off work. I enjoyed the good fortune of an ‘ice day’ and let me just say – I am a fan. Winter is not my favorite season, however ice days might just change my mind.

I’ll admit that I spend a large part of my day of freedom sleeping. It was scrumptious. Everyone should be so lucky as to be given the gift of sleeping till noon every once in a while. I was however able to pull myself together enough by late afternoon to continue work on a bag I am making for my etsy shop.



I love working on these bags because it gives me the opportunity to return to hand sewing – one of my first loves. There is nothing more peaceful for me than working on a hand sewing project. I’ve started spending my lunch break sitting in my car embroidering. Schools tend to reverberate with the energy of the students, computers/tv’s and stressed out teachers. I love the stillness of my car.

I don’t want to make it sound like I don’t love working with kids. There are definite joys. Today I was sitting in guidance with one of my students. The counselor was teaching the kids about not being bossy to their friends and was reading the class a book about Franklin the turtle who is a bossy cad and annoys his other animal friends. A little girl raised her hand and proceeded to criticize in a serious tone, “Um…animals do NOT talk.” The counselor tried to explain that this was a book and it was pretend but she was not to be swayed. I think the lesson this little one learned today was not about being bossy but that her crazy counselor doesn’t know animals don’t talk. Kindergartners are great.