Friday, January 30, 2009

Random Things

While searching for some fabric I ran across some of my old dresses.
Clara and Isabel wanted to play dress-up.
I officially started my church job this week. There is a lot to do! I have to keep reminding myself that I can't do it all at once and that is okay.
We had two ice days this week where school was cancelled, even Parker College. It was fun having everyone home during the day. We watched movies and barely got out of our PJs. Today is beautiful outside, sunny and in the 60's.
Oliver is really into the Land Before Time movies. When I was in high school I baby-sat two brothers who were very into these movies, too. We watch them over and over.
This morning shortly after 8am I got a call from the school nurse. I immediately thought Clara was sick or had been injured. The nurse went on to say that Clara was a very lucky girl because her name had been drawn to win this huge stocking filled with games and toys and who knows what. She has been turning in Box Tops for Education and this is why her name was in the drawing. It was a school wide drawing. Let's hope she continues to have good luck!

Look at all this loot! Just about every item needs multiple batteries. There should have been a 20 pack of batteries included in the stocking, but, of course, there was not. Part of the excitement for Clara about the situation was that her name was read over the announcements. This was a first and it made her feel pretty special.

2 comments:

Joe and Anna said...

Your ice day in sounds fun. Would have loved to share that day with you. Was Hairspray per chance one of those movies? Who are Clara's friends in the pictures?

Marla said...

Quavon comes home with us after school on 3 days a week while his parents are working. He's in her class and they live in these apartments. I think he was more excited about the loot than anyone else. It was a fury of plastic and boxes being torn open and tossed.