Happy Things

From Ruthie, Jamie, Matt, Micah, Kippany, and me . . .

 

• Learning from my business text that St. Thomas Aquinas is responsible for formulating the virtues faith, hope, and love
• A health conference guest, assuming that the security system on the front doors was motion activated, dancing and waving wildly at the door every time she wanted to go out!
• Asking Danielle if she just woke up, and she replied saying, "After my shower."
• Having a terrible day on Saturday J
• Having good talks with friends
• Road trip in April
• God's faithfulness and unchanging love
• Finishing a good book
• Kendra singing to Danielle in her meeting to put her to sleep
• Making dinner in the room with Bekah and Sarah
• My college creaming Craig's college in baseball
• Megan telling me that my middle name makes her think of the song "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" . . . and trying to reconstruct how it goes: "She's a witch!"
• Tim P., after seeing an obvious mistake he made in math, "Hmm-so THAT'S why I have to go to Learning Center."
• A certain LIT having an uncanny resemblance to "Mr. Beaver" in the LWW
• Running in the pre-dawn artistic March rain with Matt
• Kicking bad attitudes!
• Going home for the weekend
• My Telos assignment is done J
• Confusion over the preposition "in" . . . The Frazier boy telling us to watch out for snowboarders, who were likely to be "in the trees"
  "Do they jump out?" I asked, incredulous.
  "Yes, like jaguars," he joked.
  What he really meant was that snowboarders are likely to be "in among" the trees
• "At tea, you sit down and have tea." -Thomas Paine, enlightening us all
• Watching Mallory attempt to eat with chopsticks
• Laughter at the Harmony class table
• Micah screaming out loud when he opened the stairwell door to see me
• Joel telling Mr. Schupbach, "No," when Mr. Schupbach guessed his name as Joel . . . then realizing that that was the wrong answer
• Jonathan asking Mr. Schupbach, "Are you sure?" when Mr. Schupbach recalled his name as Jonathan
• Mr. Norcross telling us that if Brooke had been a boy, he wanted to name her "Brock Lee"
• Nate "helping" Joel rescue his runaway egg by kicking it across the hall
• Being nominated to be president of the Hamsters club, even though I've never attended a meeting
• Sitting at the birthday table with Rachel!
• In the middle of a serious conversation with Gina in my office, she spied my balloon. Her eyes widened: "You had a baby!?"