What started as a cold, rainy Monday morning turned out to be beautiful! It has definitely been a long long day but I'm glad for it to be winding down...
My day started out when I woke up an HOUR after my alarm went off. AHHHHHHH, only me! Monday's are my early days. I'm supposed to wake up at 5:30 am and leave my dorm by 7:00 am to be at EB Morse Elementary School by 7:30 am. Its extremely early, but I have to do it once a week and one day in the near(ish) future, I'll be doing this every day. Well, I woke up late, rushed to get ready, and I was about 10 minutes late to school but good thing I have such a sweet teacher who understands crazy Monday mornings. I absolutely love my practicum teacher, Mrs. Downs. She's just so precious and she's had so much experience in so many different types of schools. Being in the Laurens County school system is interesting to say the least. Its definitely a wake up call but its also very sad at the same time. Today I got to work on reviewing contractions with my 1st graders! A lot of them are very very needy and can't seem to think for themselves, no matter how much I challenge them. I love to feel needed though, even though that sounds kind of weird. When the students went to art, Mrs. Downs and I walked around the school to check out the Montessori classrooms. Of course I've learned about Montessori but I haven't actually seen it in practice in the classroom and Italian Montessori is very different from American Montessori. As soon as I walked into the 1st-3rd grade classroom, it was like I had a magnet on me. All eyes on Miss Fogle!!!! Yikes! This little girl just looked up in awe at me and said, "You're so pretty!" kind of in an exhaled sigh. It was just so precious!!! It was such a great reminder of why I love children so so much! They will always brighten your day. As I walked around the classroom, the girls flocked to me commenting on my scarf and my looks and I just loved it! We also checked out the 3s, 4s, and 5s who were absolutely precious. I forget how big of a difference there is between 4K/Kindergarten and 1st grade. Somehow in those years, kids go from babies to small people, it amazes me! My time at EB Morse always passes by pretty fast but when I left it was still yucky outside.
I rushed back to school (story of my life!) and stayed busy all afternoon between selling t-shirts, having a lunch with my big and twin, and getting some work done in Admissions.
Another highlight of my day came from my email I sent to my family to increase my views on my blog, which might I add have increased soooooo much today! Makes me feel so loved, thanks peeps! Well here's how my email to my family went:
Hey fam,
Go check out my blog I started since I gave up Facebook!
foglerachel.blogspot.com
Loveeeeeee,
Rachel :)
Here were the responses I got:
1. Sarah--my seester best friend...
"hahaha you're weird"
gee thanks, sis!
2. Mama--
"Hello! Well, this is great except...isn't this just trading one vice for another? :)"
I explained to her how my blog is far less addictive that Facebook is. I can't creep on people for hours on end like I do on Facebook. The world of blogging is so new to me, I don't know how to spend hours on here...She understood my points.
3. Daddy--gotta save the best for last
"What's a blog?"
AHHHH!!!! Come on, Daddy. He just made his way into the Facebook world last fall thanks to his lovely daughters, maybe I'll sell him on the whole blog thing too.
Tonight ended with Chapter and a weekly CA meeting and what I was expecting to be a very uneventful night but leave it up to the girls on my hall to make it interesting!
I'm so excited to say my grandbaby Jamie is finally an official resident of Belk 1st floor!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't be more excited. Now I don't have to climb three flights of stairs when I want to see her. Well, Jamie wanted cookies so she baked some chocolate chip cookies in my room. I must say I've always been a fan of the classic Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies but my new favorite is Pillsbury Chocolate Chunk Cookies!!! They're seriously amazing! Tiff Tiff borrowed my book Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks. Its his newest book and so wonderful! It was seriously soooooo good so I convinced Tiffany to read it. She read it in like two days and brought it back to me so we could talk about the book together. Here's our favorite passage...
"Being together isn't about the honeymoon. It's about the real you and me. I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings, I want to spend the evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again. You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. I know you're afraid, and I'm afraid, too. But if we let this go, if we pretend none of this every happened, then I'm not sure we'll ever get another chance."
Best of Me, Nicholas Sparks
If your heart didn't just melt, you should check if its still beating...but for serious! This was was ahhhmazing and I totally recommend it to anyone even if you're not as sappy or hopelessly romantic as myself. Also if you couldn't tell how much I just love love, you better watch out. I promise to always be sappy!
During my CA meeting, I realized Tiffany stole the "I" from the ADPi hanging on my wall. She likes to say ADP instead of ADPi. Bless her. Here's the proof...
I ran through Belk sounding like such a crazy person yelling, "WHERE'S MY I????" Of course Tiffany's best response was, "You have two right there!!!" She locked me out of my room, I locked her out of her room, and we just had lots of fun looking like crazy people. I returned to my room and the I magically appeared...hmm wonder how that happened! I know you were really wondering where the I was. I know, I know, me too!
After Tiffany left to get some studying done, Tiffany's roommate Taylor came by! We spent some time just catching up and talking about what God has been teaching us in life these days. It was good chill time and it was a break from doing school work...I promise it happens around here. Taylor got the brilliant idea that she wanted cupcakes. What other CA keeps 3 boxes of cake mix in her kitchen? None other than me, of course! So we made funfetti cupcakes with neon blue icing!!! If you get hungry, you can always find food in here!
Its been such a beautiful day and a great reminder that even if nasty and rainy, dreadful times, God always provides with a beautiful sunshine day. It happens.
God is good.
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