I survived...

Today I went back to school. This picture is of Meet the Teacher night, not today. I actually have cut my hair short again (like it is in our blog button picture) and dyed it dark (it's a dark reddish brownish), I think I love it. Anyway, I showed up a little early, so I could do a few things and take down all of the students cards wishing me good luck with the adoption. The cards were so adorable, they had cute little pictures of me and a stick figure baby. The students are so thoughtful, but it was hard to see a collage of me and my stick figure baby every time I open and close the door to my classroom so the notes had to go. Anyway, the day went pretty well, minus one minor crying episode after one of my students asked me for like the fifth time if I was sad about baby Oliver. Yes, that's what we had named him, I know I haven't posted that before. His name was Oliver Greyson. That's not what his name is now but that's what he will always be in our minds. One of my students even gave me a little stuffed tiger (it was the kind with magnet hands that stick together to hold cool things) that had a note saying how much she had missed me and it had a picture of baby Oliver on it that she drew. It was a bittersweet day. So many friends stopped in to see how my first day back was going and I was grateful to not have enough time in the day to really stop and talk about everything because I may not have made it through. Several students just came up to me throughout the day and hugged me, telling me how much they missed me and how they had secretly gone home and cried about it to their moms on a few occasions. I am so lucky to have such good kids, makes it lots easier. Now let's talk about gummy bears, you know the three headed kind and of course how awesome whoever is that made an entire chandelier out of them...

Okay, but seriously...

I am a bit peeved about the fact that an entire treasure chest full of gummy bears went missing while I was gone though my students say they were never given any (maybe the sub had a sweet tooth, eh?)  and that there were no dry erase markers, glue sticks or tape to be found in my whole room when I started this morning. Also, I'm pretty sure my poor kids were surviving with 10 working pencils between the 26 of them. I am glad to be back, so that they can have access to acceptable pencils and I can read to them (it's my favorite part of teaching) and I will have a reason to laugh at least once throughout my day. I swear they each grew a whole foot taller since I saw them last. I'm thinking the next 17 days aren't going to be so bad...although I do miss all of the sleeping in I've been doing the last month and a half that I've been home. Life is funny sometimes, you never know what's going to happen next...speaking of which, I found out last Friday I won a giveaway because one very thoughtful friend wanted to make my day, well you sure did Heather. I didn't even know about the giveaway or that I had been nominated, friends are awesome! It blew me away...go to piedpiperphoto.blogspot.com to check out all of the fabulous things that I will be looking forward to receiving in the mail. Also, the photo shoot is this Thursday, I will have to post more about that after. Also, I got to guest post here today. Like I said, you never know what's going to come next, I just know it's bound to be amazing...like this picture (yes, I know it's fake, but it's still pretty cool). I found it when I googled amazing...although I can't recommend doing that, bound to see some creepy things. Just sayin :)  Have an amazing night, friends!