Back to School in Numbers

100... hours of painting this summer

7... butterflies flying on the walls

140... photocopies made

489... books waiting to be read

3... classes I'll be teaching

10... boxes of brand new washable markers

2... spotless, handprint-free tables

15... flowers growing in our room

12... chairs

2,500... sheets of construction paper

20... students registered

9... boys

11... girls

200... fingers ready to fingerpaint

13... new toys bought this summer

31... calendar numbers laminated

6,327... stickers (not that I really counted)

836... Clorox wipes to be used this year

8... hours until school starts

1... teacher excited for tomorrow!

Thankful Thursday

This week I am thankful for some things that I probably have never been thankful for in my life....

Based on things that have happened this week (read here), today I am thankful for:

• the fact that I don't need surgery.
• friends who offered me my first wheelchair ride (I might still have been walking back to my car)
• two days off to help me rest
• high heels... wearing them is the only way I can walk/hobble/shuffle right now.
• wheelchairs... at school, it makes trips to the bathroom much quicker
• students who are willing (although at times too eager) to push me in the wheelchair
• the weekend... which I coming tomorrow. (I have been thankful for that in the past.)