Day 47: It's All About Relationship...

I can honestly say that today has been the best day so far. 

YAY!!!! Hope has arrived!!!! :)

School went pretty smoothly and I was actually well-prepared with the student notebooks that go home on a daily basis. They are hand-written (by the teacher...me) homework assignments that are required work every day except Friday. That means not only lesson-planning, printing, and/or copying, but writing (by HAND, remember) the assignment for each and every student I have for English and math. In any case, it was all done and learning happened today, so I was a happy camper with that!


Since today is Thursday and I have the afternoon off, I went to pick up Hope for a visit to Mamacita's. She had worked all morning on come little picture cards for the kids to learn about sounds in words and do word sorts. She had gotten more done this morning than I've been able to get done since I've been here!!! Yay!!! It was fun taking her to my Thursday hang-out spot, and she got to taste a "Bushwacker", which is one of their specialties. She also got to meet one of the resident iguanas. Thrilling...


After school was done we returned to work in my classroom. Since my room is so dinky, I've been frustrated with where to put things....all the way from posters to storage. She had some great ideas and helped me take it to the next level. When Abbie popped her head in she was "wowwed" by it!


This evening Hannah was able to begin practicing volleyball at the gym with lots of the local girls. There's a coach who works with them on the basic skills and several girls from Abbie's School participate. While she was there Hope and I went back to the house for a cup of coffee. We sat out on the deck. 


My dear friend, Rhonda, sent me a really cool digital frame a couple of days ago. She had gathered pictures from some other dear friends from a trip we took together just before we left Michigan and loaded them all onto the frame.  While Hope and I were having our coffee, she figured out (by reading the directions, of course!) how easy it is for me to load even more pictures on there! 


Then we went to pick up Hannah from the gym; she was dripping with sweat but totally happy!


Thank You, God, for a great day; that Hope is here, that I can enjoy pictures of friends and family, and that Hannah had a great time with other girls!