October 29, 2010

TALK IS CHEAP

MY BIG MOUTH HAS ME LOOKING LIKE A HYPOCRITE TODAY.
ALL I CAN SAY IS...
IF YOU WANNA SUCK EVERY OUNCE OF JUICE OUT OF THE HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY, 
BECOME AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER.
BECAUSE, QUITE FRANKLY, HOW CAN YOU HELP BUT LOVE THIS?




 OF COURSE

 -I-
WHO CRIED WHEN READING THE LAST CHAPTER OF HARRY POTTER 7 UPON REALIZING THE  SAD TRUTH THAT I WOULDN'T MEET HARRY IN THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM-
WOULD LOVE ANY DAY WHEN SWARMS OF HARRY POTTER CLAD CHILDREN SURROUND ME. I'M SERIOUSLY JEALOUS OF ALL THE HARRY POTTER COSTUMES.  THERE ARE PROBABLY 23 HERE AT CEDAR RIDGE TODAY. ALL EQUALLY VALUABLE AND VALID.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, YOU MAY SEE A BJ AND ELLERY PUGMIRE NEXT HALLOWEEN WHO LOOK SURPRISING LIKE RONALD WEASLEY AND HERMIONE GRANGER.


AND ALTHOUGH MY LOVE FOR HARRY POTTER IS INCALCULABLE, THERE WERE ADMITTEDLY, SOME OTHER GOOD COSTUMES AS WELL. MINE INCLUDED.







CASSIE AND I LAUGHED AS THE HALLOWEEN PARADE CIRCLED THROUGH THE SCHOOL. THE KIDS TRIED SO HARD TO LOOK COOL AND COLLECTED, BUT YOU COULD SEE OCCASIONAL GRINS AND FLASHES OF PROUD GLORY SEEP PAST THE STONE COLD EXTERIORS.
THEY'VE BEEN AWAITING THIS DAY FOR A LONG TIME.





WHAT WOULD THIS WORLD BE LIKE WITHOUT CHILDREN?
AND HOLIDAYS FOR THAT MATTER?
TODAY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE STUDENTS GOT IN TROUBLE FOR TALKING WHILE WE WERE WARMING UP. I YELLED OUT, "JOHNNY!" (NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED.) "NO TALKING, FIRST WARNING!"
WELL IT APPARENTLY WAS MORE THAN HE COULD BARE BECAUSE AT THE END OF CLASS, HERE COMES JOHNNY, FACE FLUSHED WITH EMBARRASSMENT. HE ADMITTED HIS FAULT,
"MRS. PUGMIRE, I'M SORRY I WAS TALKING, I JUST GET SO EXCITED WHEN I FINALLY GET TO COME TO DANCE." I LAUGHED AND TOLD HIM IT WAS OK. JOHNNY'S JUST LUCKY HE'S SO DARN CUTE. HE COULD TALK EVERY DAY DURING THE DANCE WARM-UP AND I WOULD HARDLY MIND.
THEY'RE IRRESISTIBLE THEY ARE.







AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMAN,
YOU KNOW WE'D ALL BE LYING IF WE DIDN'T MENTION THE MOST ADORABLE OF THEM ALL.
PLEASE BRACE YOURSELF FOR THIS CONCLUDING PHOTO.
YOU'LL LOVE IT, I KNOW YOU WILL.
DRUMROLL PLEASE...


AND GIVE IT UP FOR
MIKE WAZOWSKI!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY FOLKS.

3 comments:

  1. You know JJ was the BEST Harry Potter out of all of them. I mean, you can't deny, he has the perfect hair for it! AND he's got to be your favorite!

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  2. So true. Out of the things I miss teaching, the creativity that is permeated from those Halloween parades is one of the toppers.

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  3. I didn't even see JJ on Halloween! I wish I would have. Of course he would have been my favorite!

    Much love!

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