Friday October 29, 2010 
Happy Friday!
It’s time to recount the blessings of the week. Thanks to Susanne of Living to Tell the Story for hosting Friday’s Fave Five each week. Hope you’ve had a great fall week.
Here are my favorite from the last seven days.
1. Teenagers – they crack me up! Teens can really be a lot of fun, and I do love teaching them. Each year, I write a play that parodies the past year and celebrates Christmas for our school-wide Madrigal Dinner. It’s a great time, complete with jesters and a royal court. We started practicing this week, and the kids just crack me up. The jesters are exhaustingly hilarious. Rehearsals are such fun!
2. Sleep. Our bed has felt good to me this week. I think the cooler weather makes me burrow down a little more and pull the covers up just a little. I have friends who have trouble sleeping, and I can’t imagine. A little reading, and I’m sleepy enough to drift off. I don’t get enough, I’m sure, but sleep is good.
3. My own personal PR man. My husband has been so helpful through this whole book process, even sometimes prodding me. My publisher has sent out a number of copies, but there are people that I know personally that live elsewhere that I’ve wanted to send a copy to. He’ll say, “Let’s get two of those books packed up tonight, okay Hon?” I sign them, write a note to accompany them, and he does the addresses, packs them up, and even goes to the post office for me. A little thing, but it shows so much support, in my mind.
4. This punkin! Need I say more?
Happy Friday!It’s time to recount the blessings of the week. Thanks to Susanne of Living to Tell the Story for hosting Friday’s Fave Five each week. Hope you’ve had a great fall week.
Here are my favorite from the last seven days.
1. Teenagers – they crack me up! Teens can really be a lot of fun, and I do love teaching them. Each year, I write a play that parodies the past year and celebrates Christmas for our school-wide Madrigal Dinner. It’s a great time, complete with jesters and a royal court. We started practicing this week, and the kids just crack me up. The jesters are exhaustingly hilarious. Rehearsals are such fun!
2. Sleep. Our bed has felt good to me this week. I think the cooler weather makes me burrow down a little more and pull the covers up just a little. I have friends who have trouble sleeping, and I can’t imagine. A little reading, and I’m sleepy enough to drift off. I don’t get enough, I’m sure, but sleep is good.
3. My own personal PR man. My husband has been so helpful through this whole book process, even sometimes prodding me. My publisher has sent out a number of copies, but there are people that I know personally that live elsewhere that I’ve wanted to send a copy to. He’ll say, “Let’s get two of those books packed up tonight, okay Hon?” I sign them, write a note to accompany them, and he does the addresses, packs them up, and even goes to the post office for me. A little thing, but it shows so much support, in my mind.
4. This punkin! Need I say more?
5. A mom quote.
“Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.” - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author
Love that thought – that we should raise our kids with a sense of the great virtues.
That they would leave our homes with generosity and indifference to money, with courage and a contempt for danger, and with a desire to be and to know. Not just to exist, to make it through each day, but to be, and to know. Ever, always, to strive to know.
With the great virtues, they’ll be adventurers, learners, and sharers. What promise!
Have a happy fall week ahead!
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