When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my
first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately
wanted to paint another one.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you feed a
stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind
to animals.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make my
favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little
things can be the special things in life.

When you thought I wasn't looking I heard you say a
prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always
talk to, and I learned to trust in Him.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make a
meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I
learned that we all have to help take care of each other.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you take care
of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have
to take care of what we are given.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw how you
handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't
feel good, and I learned that I would have to be
responsible when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come
from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things
hurt, but it's all right to cry.

When your thought I wasn’t looking, I felt you kiss me goodnight, and I felt loved.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you
cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.

When you thought I wasn't looking I learned most of
life's lessons that I need to know to be a good and
productive person when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn't looking I looked at you and
wanted to say,'Thanks for all the things I saw when
you thought I wasn't looking'

Remember that Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, friend)
influences the life of a child.

How will you touch the life of someone today?
Speak kindly.

Author – Unknown

Tie Dye Wednesday

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Take Me Back Tuesday ~1975

 

Take me back to Summer vacation from 1975.  My parents always took us to Glenwood Springs for vacation.  We loved being able to swim in the hot sulfur springs pools and eat all our meals in restaurants!

Man, you just had to love the 70’s! What totally made me laugh about these pictures is the plaid pants.  I mean seriously, not only Dad but Brother too?!?!

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Quotable Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Quotable Sunday! In light of the fact that it is back to school time, and for the first time I had a child join the ranks of school agers, I have put together a few quotes on Education and Learning.

My favorite quote of the week came from my daughter after I asked her late last week if she was liking Kindergarten. She said “they just make you do work all the time!”

This picture pretty much sums up her hesitancy about going to school on the first day. It did get easier for her later in the week. I am hoping this week she may even find something she enjoys!

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb

You can finish school, and even make it easy, but you never finish your education, and it is seldom easy. ~ Zig Ziglar

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. ~ Marva Collins

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. ~ Marva Collins

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. ~ Alfred Mercier

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Wordless Wednesday ~Bumper Cars

Fun on the Bumper Cars with Dad!

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Take Me Back Tuesday

Who’s that cute baby in the mirror??

  

It’s Me!!

 

Kisses for the baby!

 

This little sweetie is of course my daughter at 6 months old!  Once again, where does the time go?  So you all know she started Kindergarten on Monday.  Yes, everything went fine, even though I didn’t really feel that the school had it all together in regards to what the Kindergarteners were supposed to be doing.  Just a small history on this, they expected about 45 kids and 90 registered!  I think they had to find a classroom and teacher in a very short time.  I really liked her teacher (she has a ton of experience) and she had a great time!  And me?  I only teared up about 10 times!

 

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Quotable Sunday ~Kindergarten

In light of the fact that I will have, as of tomorrow morning, a Kindergartener, I thought I would post one of my favorite poems from Robert Fulghum.

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life.
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult
terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

~ Robert Fulghum ~

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