Friday

I finished up with my second graders today. I had TWO kids lose teeth this morning. One boy came back into the library from getting a bagel and said that he thought he lost his tooth in the hallway. The bloody hole in his mouth would suggest that, so we retraced his steps and found the baby tooth on the floor. Then another girl lost her tooth a little later in the morning. That was fun. I was teasing her all day and during math this afternoon we got a little carried away talking about the tooth fairy and teeth and stuff not anything closely related to miles and kilometers. I learned that kids today have made the tooth fairy go broke - they sometimes get 20 bucks a tooth!! The kids learned that I lost my two front teeth around Christmas one year and asked Santa for them for Christmas. That got them laughing and singing and being goofy.
I tried to be serious with them at times but one little boy knew I wasn't because he would say "look, the teacher is laughing." So he outsmarted me at my own game. hahaha. I had so much fun over the last three days! The kids found out I worked at The Children's Place and were excited to maybe see me in the store sometime. They also didn't want their regular teacher to come back. And as they left most of them gave my hugs goodbye. I loved it!

I was on-call for the store tonight. Sadly, I had to report. I had a "special project" set aside for me. What was it you might wonder? Well, the backroom got a little rearranged last night and so it is my job to organize all the marketing signs. This could either be because I straightened and organized the baby boy section on my own suggestions or because I am a teacher (the running excuse for the way I do anything at the store) or because Dee knows that if I am in charge of it, it will get done in a timely manner and the way she wants it. I got all but two containers with hanging files done tonight. I can finish up the rest sometime during my shift tomorrow.

I have one day off in the span of eight days, two of which are double-headers. How wonderfully exciting.