How Lucky You Are!

Every Tuesday, I take a moment to give thanks for one thing that I am thankful for in my life. Some of my blessings are sweet and some of them are silly, but all of them are important to me.

Today I'm thankful for ...

graduation.

Although I was never really the "typical" college kid. I always had my head on straight. Ok, well at least 95% of the time.

For the past hour, I've been sitting next to what I think is a Wildlife small group. Or maybe it's YoungLife? Anyhow, their leader is very much a Freshmen at USC. The others are girl are *maybe* in 8th grade. They are hanging on her ev-er-y word about how cool is it that she can roll out of bed and be in the dining hall. She watches episodes of The Office on her laptop while the teacher lectures. Does she sit on the back row? No, usually in the middle, so she's sure the ppl behind her are watching too. She didn't go to one of her classes today because, well, she just didn't feel like it. She had tickets to go to the baseball game, but decided she'd better come to dinner with them instead. Blah blah blah.

If I ever sounded like that, omg, please shoot me now. Maybe I did, but I sure hope not. I'm not sure who is more thankful I'm not her scholarship advisor.

Wow - I just realized I am *especailly* thankful she's not in a sorority. Could you imagine the comments then?

I finally remembered I had earplugs in my school bag, so I just threw those in my ear. THANK GOD. I wonder how many of the girls saw me rolling my eyes.

Ok - in other news ... and in other thanks since I didn't post last week.

(omg - I thought I had just deleted this by accidently clicking on some random button around this page .. but nope! Found it in drafts ... so add that to the thankful list!)

I am also thankful for ...

Tomorrow is his birthday and I've planned a full day (ok well 7:30-12 noon) celebration centered around his works. Don't worry all you Mick, they are all aligned to standards/indicators for my 4th graders. I sure hope they behave because I have put SO much energy into this, I'm about to crash. However, I have student-teacher-intern evals I must complete before her midterm tomorrow.... and yes, I sit here blogging.

Anyhow, his work is incredible. And he isn't just for us when we're starting to learn to read. Shall we have a history lesson?

Ok ... well, I was going to post pictures comparing some of his books to the real events in history. But I had some concerns. 1. I don't actually own any of the pics on my blog, unless I'm in it. So, I thought I had better be careful. (I love making no money in my job, but I can't afford legal fees, too!) and 2. I would feel really weird putting a picture of Hitler on my blog. (Think: Yertle!)

So, anyhow - I'll just share my two favorite with words.

Sneetches. The story of the bird-ish sneeches who decide to ostracize a particular other group of sneetches and make them wear stars. (blue stars on the yellow bellies) At first it was like, hey you can wear these. and then it turned into, you cant wear these. Not all the sneetches agreed to it, but none of them stopped it. Eventually, they began to realize it wasn't all that bad to wear the star or NOT wear the star..... Because, really, a sneetch is a sneetch. Sound familiar?

Butter Battle Book. Well ... I'm too tired and have too much to do to even recap this ... but it's totally cold war! And to think I read this as a kid growing up in the final years of the Cold War and never even realized it until I was ...oh.... 22? (The war or the book - ha! jk)

When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad....
you should do what I do...
Think of the things you are thankful for
and share them below.
I am thankful for...
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more ...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!
-Dr. Seuss