Phoenix

Sunny and a balmy 53. Woohoo.

And an amazing amount of Bloody Marys being sold by a gregarious bartender at my next gate. 

I opted for a Naked brand green smoothie.  It is only 8:30 in the morning. 

I live such a simple life......

Next stop:  Salt Lake City

Gotta Love Arkansas This Winter!

I woke up this morning to get ready for seminary class.  I get up at 4:00 a.m. in order to get things done that I need to get done before I leave the house at 5:45.  I checked the weather this morning at 4 and it showed one little tiny speck of precipitation in Northern Arkansas.

I got up, showered, dressed for school and went to seminary.

There were two girls there waiting for me from another school district south of us and they said their school had closed for the day.  What!?!  That school and my school never close - or so it seems to me.  So at 6:00 am I checked and sure enough - a ton of schools in Arkansas are closed today, including mine!  By 6:40 Phil called and told me I needed to let the kids out because the roads were icing.  Some of the kids live 20 minutes away.

So here I am, showered and dressed with a whole day ahead of me.  What to do first!?!  The angel on my shoulder is telling me to clean, bake bread, put up the folded laundry covering the table, and do some taxes.  The devil on my shoulder is telling me to bake cookies, watch Sherlock Holmes, and take a nap.

Decisions, decisions.

In other news - the red marks and rash on Ethan's face were not fading, so the nurse came by the house yesterday and brought him a different mask to try.  I personally thinks it looks a lot more comfortable.  It is made from different material and is smaller around the nose.  He looks less like an alien, now he resembles more an elephant.  We will see how it works!  This morning the redness on the side of nose was gone, so it is a start.

Enjoy your day!!

Shades of People

This week we celebrated 100 days of school!!  It is such a big event!  We had the grand parade in our gym since Arkansas has decided to imitate Michigan this winter.

As I was looking at all 450 children march by and wave, I saw so many different shades of color.  My school has such a diverse population that you could put an entire class together and you wouldn't find any colored the exact same way.  It is so beautiful!!  It makes my heart so happy to see them be friends with other and help each other.  If the world as a whole followed their example it would be a much happier and peaceful place!

I have a book I always read the first week of school.  Make your heart happy and read it!