Owl of the Week

To introduce how we do student of the week in my classroom, I was the first "Owl of the Week."  On Friday, we always write letters to that person.  Here are a few highlights from the letters I received:

"I hope you are haveing a grate time whith Hedwig...So how whod you feel if I got you a real live owl.  It would be cool.  No-Yes

"I like how some times you get out of your mind!"

"You are so nice to us in class. I hope you stay alive for ever."

"owls are nauternal (nocturnal) that means they hunt at night. I like nauternal animals they can catch pray wile they are sleeping they don't even know."

So there you have it.  They don't want me to die and nocturnal animals can catch prey while they are sleeping.  Who knew?

Single

In my dream last night, I was called up to the front office of the school to redo some paperwork that I had filled out incorrectly the first time.  One of the questions was about my marital status.   After marking "Single," the principal's secretary started hounding me.  She told me that I better stop slacking and start dating more often.  It was rather comical when I woke up.  I told her about my dream this morning and she promised to never bug me about my dating life. I'm glad that people are nicer to me in person than they are while I'm sleeping.

I feel like a lot of my recent posts have centered on the fact that I am man-less and childless.  I promise that I am really not as concerned/obsessed with these two facts as it may appear.

Map of my Heart

Ever wondered what my heart looks like? 

Well, I've mapped it out for you:  

I created this as an example for my students at school. 

I was going to add color, but I got lazy.

They're going to refer back to their own heart maps when they are stuck on what to write about.

As you may have noticed, the top left corner of my heart is currently vacant.

If you have any suggestions of any kind, I'd love to fill it.  Especially if your suggestion involves a man. :)

Baby Hungry

Ever since my sweet little nephew arrived, I have been thinking about babies a lot.  I had a dream that I was adopting a baby earlier this week.  The problem is that every day I wake up, I am still having a hard time knowing what's real and what isn't.  It's happened before with several other supposed middle-of-the- night deliveries (including rabbits), but now it's a baby. My thoughts as I'm getting up have included, "I really need to clean my room or the adoption agency won't think I'm a suitable mom" and "Today is baby day!"  I really hope that my half-conscious self will start realizing that there won't be any newborns delivered to my house at 3:00 or 5:00a.m.  It's hard to go back to sleep after such a rush of emotions.

One Thing

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I had no idea as I was reading The Book of Mormon this week, just how much it was preparing me for what was to come.  So many things went wrong at work today, but I was still able to find great joy in one thing. I would like to share that one thing with you:

After talking about how unwise it is to hide papers from your parents, one girl went on and on about how you should never feed your homework to your babysister.  

When she finished explaining this important concept, she ended with,

 "And by the way, that was a story about me.  I fed my homework to my sister once."

Another girl chimed in, "Well, her sister definitely has lots of learning in her head."

I was cracking up. 

And here is the line from Alma 56:9 that gave me the strength I needed today:

 "But behold, here is one thing in which we may have great joy."  

Dream Within A Dream?

I was so excited that I remembered my dream the other day.  

I jotted down a few notes so that I could blog about it later on.

Since that day, I have not seen those "notes."

My only explanation:

I wrote my notes down in another dream :(

Under Attack

Of all the insects that could be in my house,

 I am glad that we only have a cricket problem.  

Crickets used to not bother me at all.

But now that I see them all the time, I'm starting to loathe them.

Meet my current best friend:

The Bug Wrangler

It's designed for little kids to catch bugs 

and has a built in magnifying glass to observe them.

I just use it so that I don't have to squish the bugs. 

 Here's one of tonight's catches.

I'm so regretting not taking a picture when I had 6 crickets trapped at once.