Happy is what happens when you get Thanksgiving socks in the mail

[callisto4quatre]

THANKSGIVING SOCKS! I OWNS THEM, PRECIOUS!

Momma found a website online that had some, so she purchased them for me and had them shipped to my house! When I came home yesterday, they were sitting on my table, and now I have Thanksgiving socks! Isn't this exciting?! I'm very, very happy about it!

Other happy news: I often make my kids do SSR (sustained silent reading, in case you aren't familiar with the term) for ten minutes, and by the end of ten minutes they're all fidgety and I know I need to stop before one of them has a hernia. Yesterday I sat them down to read, and at the end of fifteen minutes they were DEAD SILENT, engrossed in their books. It made me so happy! I told them they needed to put their books down so we could move on, and I got a chorus of groans! Groans! Did you hear that? I got a chorus of groans. So I let them read for ten more minutes. HOORAY AND HAPPINESS.

Also, they excelled on their weekly Treasures tests yesterday. Even my one little boy, who usually gets in the 40% range, got a 73%! I was so proud of him! I called him over to tell him, and he had the face on that said, "What did I do now?" I just smiled REALLY BIG and told him his score. His entire face lit up, and my heart smiled with joy.

Times like this I remember why I chose to be a teacher. Sure makes up for interacting with difficult parents. I love my kids.

MIght as well keep listing things I love, because it is a love-listing kind of day!

I love my parents.

I love my siblings.

I love my books.

I love good books that are impossible to put down.

I love crying over books.

I love the changing leaves in fall!

I love Boy Who Smiles.

I love my friends.

I love a warm bed that contrasts greatly with the cold air of my bedroom.

I love knowing I'm moving into my own room! Squee!

I love laughing.

I love eating delicious food.

I love my baby blanket.

I love clothes that make me look pretty.

I love people who do my hair to make me look pretty (Eliza and Allison, I'm looking at you.)

I love babies.

I love nifty-neato-burrito socks!

I love my brothers!

I love having my own car that I don't have to share with anybody ever!

I love making Boy Who Smiles drive my car, especially at night, when I especially hate driving.

I love the Backstreet Boys.

I love me a good love story.

I love the feeling of Sunday, how it's different from every other day.

I love a clean house.

I love when Relief Society gets out on time.

I love when Sacrament Meeting gets out on time.

I love when there isn't a special musical number so I can sing the intermediate hymn.

I love singing.

I love singing when nobody else is around so I can belt it out and pretend I can hit really high notes, even if I can't, because there's no one around to pass judgement and then I just sing louder!

I love Les Mis.

I love Achilles. And James Potter.

I love working with Johanna and Francis.

I love teaching my students.

I love colors that go well together.

I love chocolate. And bacon! And cheese!

I love cheddar cheese. It reigns supreme.

I love worms that come out when it rains.

I love crunchy leaves in my path.

I love the first snow fall of the year.

I love being warm, but not hot or cold.

I love looking at the temple picture in my room.

I love good art.

I love well crafted stories.

I love me a good walk, putting one foot in front of the other.

I love, "Here's your coffee, sir!"

I love Rosso and Viola! AND O'CONNELL!

I love a lot of characters that have wormed their way into my heart over the years.

I love Jill and Melinda.

I love people who love things that I love.

I love the sunshine. So long as I don't have to be directly in it.

I love cute little puppies.

I love Danny Wright.

And I love hot showers! i'm going to go take one. Right now. Because I love them so.

And I'm going to bask in it for a very long time, because it is Saturday and i can.

LOVE!

"Take my love, for love is everlasting..."