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The Big 4-0

Feb. 15, 2019 - I began a new decade!  Thanks to my sister, I was showered with birthday wishes and small gifts for 40 days leading up to my birthday - quite overwhelming, but oh, so sweet of her!  Some students even brought in small "40-gifts" on my birthday.  I think I now have enough pencils to last 40 years of teaching!  

At forty, I'm not doing what I ever thought I would be doing, I'm good at things I never thought I would be good at, I'm sub-par at things I thought I would be great at.  The lesson at age 40?  I don't think I'll ever be done learning - about myself or about the world around me! And -- I will always, always love chocolate.  I guess some things don't change - another lesson learned!


Selfie in the workroom - Vanessa treated our building to cupcakes!



I took some girls with me to Lauren Daigle's concert at the Orpheum Theater in Wichita!



  

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