Happy Things

From Matt or me . . .

• Kendra to Matt: "You're such a blankety-blank prophet!"
• Elizabeth telling Mary, "Eat Kendra." (Mary correcting her, "Eat with Kendra.")
• Elizabeth hearing Mary practice, "And they worshipped the beast . . ." and saying "Kenya"? ("Kendra"?)
• Tim: "Think about it. It might be inevitable."
• Abbie informing me (in a whisper) that I am invited to her family's table and that I am invited to sit by Ashley
• Gerry (from the youth center) telling the girls on the swing that she was not exactly white (um, they don't come much whiter than Gerry).
• Mrs. Rothenhauser dancing with me in the parking lot to "It's a Jolly Holiday" on our DC trip
• Jasmine R. still having a gift I gave her last year
• Alaina teaching Arketha how to whistle at guys
• Kendra to Matt: "I could be your worst enemy!"
• Matt, completely seriously, trying to debunk my assertion that unstable leaders are not competent . . . "What about Castro . . . Hitler . . .?"
• "When I am on a sugar fast, I am on a sugar fast." --Liz, refusing sweets offered her in the van
• Brooke, on the weakness of being overanalytical and the countering powers of sleep: "I cannot sleep and think at the same time."
• Fhallon trying to persuade her dad to do houskeeping with her by telling him that Mrs. Gergeni could use the help
• Mrs. Rothenhauser asking, "Emma, does he have an off button?" after sitting with a certain talkative young man through lunch