sorry! i seem to have been remiss in my blogging and i haven’t had an entry since sunday! the only problem with that is that sometimes the littlest happy things get forgotten. so here are a few i remember:
–i found another “humility tile” in the bathroom at work–a green and orange tile were switched.
–snow this morning was beautiful (although it melted by lunchtime)
–the glitter workshop agreed to sell some of the pidoodle items.
–i got to do a “monkey” storytime at work today. do you know how many fun monkey stories, fingerplays, songs and books there are?? tons! loved it! i was also thrown off by the appearance of a family from my old library, only they weren’t all sitting together and i kept trying to assimilate this familiar face with the family he was sitting near and it was really playing with my head. i finally knew that i did know him from the old library when he asked me to “do the mad face” in the “if you’re happy and you know it” book i do at the end of storytime. only a loyal follower would know about “the mad face” (one verse has an owl “winking” when he’s happy. it’s a book with moving parts and the owl winks by having the piece that covers up one eye swivel to cover the other eye. if you leave the covering-up piece somewhere between the two eyes, it looks like the owl is frowning. i then delight in singing “if you happy and you know it, make a mad face!”).
one of the newer monkey books i discovered through the use of this storytime theme was “soon, baboon, soon” which is a simple story but has fabulous rhythm considering how few words are on the page. i experimented today by reading it with the kids patting their knees in a steady beat as i read the book and it added an extra element that i liked (plus kept the kids attention better than reading it without their participation.). plus, i had a real triangle at the end to add an element of realism to the story.
–new toaster oven! ok, this may be a little materialistic of me. i already owned a toaster oven that worked perfectly well, but it was probably near 10 years old, it had scorch marks and some words that had melted off of bread bags too close to the heat at some point. so, i decided to use some of the christmas money from my grandma and upgrade. the new toaster oven is big enough to bake pies! and still doesn’t take up much more room on the counter than the last one. go figure. and it’s black, so… no scorch marks!
–an “a” on the first paper i’ve written in ten years.
–someone brought fresh bakery cheese bread to work to share–yum.
–finally passed the three-years-since-my-last-accident mark and my insurance rates went down. hooray! let’s hope i can keep it that way.
–went to go hear john degraaf (author of “affluenza“) speak. makes me want to move to finland. also lovely to be in a room full of like-minded people for whom time is more valuable than money and who would like to figure out a way to simplify life so that there is less rushing around and more time to live–even if that means making less money.
ok, that’s enough for one night. i’ve got a kitty curled up in the crook of my arm telling me it’s time for bed. good night everyone.
