This is my picture from February 25, 2008. I couldn't get it to post last night (big surprise!) so here it is. It's a picture of my crazy Mondayness. One of the things I do in my classroom is to have a secret word that the kids try to spell out by receiving compliments from myself or other teachers for their behavior in the hallway or clasroom. Anyways, they finished spelling the word and they decided that they wanted to dress crazy mix-matched. So, that is my picture. Me and my mix-matchedness. Don't you love all my crazy words?

What I love about me # 7:
I'm nurturing. I have a great instinct for taking care of people an animals. When my mom was sick, it was just instinct for me to not be sick when I saw the needles, which I am deathly terrified of, and to just suck it up and tell her it would all be ok. It is a dominant trait in myself to take care of the children in my room who have the problems that they do. It is easy for me to do whatever I can and say whatever I can while being honest to help boost their confidence. I love my dogs. I treat them better than some people treat humans. I can't even explain the love I feel for them and just people in general. I'll make a good human's mother one day. :)

Today's picture of the day is one of the many stuffed puppies that I have around my classroom. It is part of my decoration because I love dogs and that is my classroom theme. I let the children hold the stuffed puppies sometimes if they are feeling sad or are upset because at their age, it is just something that seems to help them. Today, after music, one little girl was very upset because they had listened to a song that was very sad and sounded like funeral music, which reminded her of her 8 year old cousin who died this past summer. To help cheer her up, I let her pick a puppy to hold. She had originally picked this cutie. She definitely was cheered up because unbeknownst to me or anyone else in the class, it barks and moves its head. Well, we all just go so tickled about it because everytime I tried to talk the little booger kept barking and moving his head. So, I just had to use it as my picture because it just wound up cheering everyone up.

What I love about me # 8
I have great determination. When I put my mind to doing something I stick to it. For example, I had many choices of where I could go to college, but I chose TTU and I stuck with it. Yes, there was a time that I wanted to leave and really thought about moving home, but I stuck it out and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Again, when I decided that the original degree I got was not what I wanted to do, I made the right decision and was determined to become a teacher, and now I am and I love it. Now, I am determined to lose weight. It's going slowly but I am sticking to it and seeing results. So, I am determined to taking a picture every day this year, and to writing something that I love about myself every day for the next year. I'm determined so you know I'll do it!