Happy Things

• Clyde's home for the summer!
  
• Clyde not knowing who Emily Post was and Craig telling him it was Shawn's first wife
  
• Clyde: "Going to an AA meeting was kind of weird, especially with my only experience being 'Finding Nemo.'"
  
• Kimberly's home for the summer!
  
• "I can't sing, but I can start IVs." --Donna H.
  
• Bible School graduation, even though it's also sad in a way
  
• Kayla's graduation and having fun people come that I don't normally see
  
• "The economic stimulus plan will come from those of us who have cash." --Rob Celedonia, quoted in Entrepreneur
  
• "If you are going to be honest about your weaknesses, be just as honest about the empowering strength of God." --Steven C. Hawthorne
  
• The card the Phoenix kids made me when I left
  
• The Phoenix kids giving me hugs when I left
  
• My new client saying, "I don't care" when he was introduced to me
  
• Going to Kimball's with a bunch of friends on a late spring eve (and four cars taking four different routes to get there)
  
• The international dinner to wrap up Perspectives class, and Kayla, Lisa, and Sarah coming along
  
• Mini-golf with the family (and Craig catching a loud frog with the net for the stray golf balls)
  
• Surviving subbing at Central again
  
• Remembering some of the students in classes
  
• Having students from Romania and Albania in class at Central
  
• Watching part of a Bollywood movie in two of Chad's classes and being in suspense over how it turns out
  
• Central's Memorial Day assembly honoring graduates who have served in the military, especially those who were killed in action . . . and awarding a diploma to a WWII veteran who went to war in his senior year and never graduated
  
• Sharing a movie ("Gridiron Gang") with the family that they haven't seen before (though it needs TV-G, and quite a lot of the movie ended up being silent)
  
• Fairwood Reunion planning!
  
• Lots of mosquito bites. That's happy because it means I've been outside more!
  
• The Annual Dublin Memorial Day parade and how it's a big deal in a teensy town
  
• Fixing dinners for myself and the brothers more than once in the week
  
• Making banana cream pie ice cream in honor of Memorial Day
  
• Watching an old "Tales of Avonlea" episode (the "Woman, you can go straight to . . . Halifax" one) and choking with laughter over the awful things Rachel Lynde says and has said to her
  
• Aaron showing me a few things about html
  
• Going to Diane's for dinner--enjoying her beautifully set table and her carnations
  
• Playing and loving a new game, "Scrutineyes"
  
• My apartment (have I said before how much I love it?! :-))
  
• Talking to Frontiers about Frontiers
  
• Having lots of math proofreading work
  
• Procrastinating on proofreading Algebra I

Um, yeah . . . !