The Wish

It's official!!  Liberty has been granted an European cruise!!

Libby and her Make a Wish Granters, Jenny McDaniel and Trish Brock, in room 1406 changing a life! 

At 4:30 Wednesday afternoon, I received an email asking if Libby's Wish Granters could meet us at Caprock.  We wrangled around class times, so that neither Libby nor I would miss core content time.  The time was set and Libby was coming to my room at 11:00.  Thursday morning our head secretary and conqueror of the world Misty came to my room and said that Make a Wish had called and were wanting to make a very big deal out of this presentation.  There is no way that we could have disrupted so many classes in such a short amount of time.  No way.  I thought it would be just fine to have the announcement in my classroom with my students and a few others who were able to get away.  Special thanks to Terri Morgan, Mary Larkan, Deborah Topper, Dr. West, and many others who came crashing into our classroom.   Extra special gift of the Caprock Cheerleaders for coming in to cheer Miss Libby on!!  Thank you.

This is Libby on our way home, fighting the balloons while trying to listen to our new audio book.  We were both saddened that with the short notice, we were not able to have any other family there and Rachael, in particular, was missing. 

So many questions still....where exactly are we going?  How long do we plan for?  Where- again??

Do they serve iced tea in Europe?  Can I get some ranch?  What about the kid being dairy free?  And the BIG problem, guess I better buy us all some underwear since none of us have more than 5 days worth of undies!!  lol. 

We have looked at the whole Passport process and wowza it's a lot of stuff to do.  They are VERY expensive and I have no idea how we will pay for them.   It has all been very overwhelming, we are trying to wrap our brains around it.  So much and so grateful.

I have heard the following...
"Man, I wish someone would give me a cruise"   (Man, I wish someone would cure my kid!)

"You all deserve it so much!"  (Every parent deserves a break, I would never ask for what I deserve- that could be UGLY!!)

My students and co-workers have been super sweet about the whole Make a Wish thing.  Many of my kiddos have told me they now get that the money they can give to Make a Wish really does matter.  That is the very best of it!  If my students have now learned the importance of giving to others then I am truly happy. 

Many thanks and prayers for all and a heart full of thanks-

Happy Thanksgiving

Halloween Carnival

Not a whole lot I can say other than we all had a great time.  The extra help of the All School Boosters eased the loss of the Band Boosters.  We had an amazing turn out and saw lots of really cute people.  Grateful for our little community and all who make it so special.