A special thought

I ran across this when I was looking for something for work. I thought that you would enjoy reading this and hope that you pass it along to your friends and family.

Beatitudes for Friends and Family

Blessed are you who take time to listen to difficult speech
for you help us persevere until we are understood

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places and
ignore the stares of strangers, for we find havens of
relaxation in your companionship.

Blessed are you who never bid us to to "hurry up" and more
blessed are you who do not snatch our tasks from our hands
to do them for us, for often we need time -rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new
and untried ventures for the delight we feel when we
surprise you outweighs all the frustrating failures.

Blessed are you who ask for help,
for our greatest need is to be needed.

-author unknown-

This weekend is the Special Olympics in Columbus with Matthew where he will be playing tennis against other special Olympians. This reading seemed to fit right in with this upcoming weekend. God's timing seems to be right when finding these things.

Not much else has happened this week at work besides the same stuff that happened the week before. Today seems to be fairly quiet...all the hustle and bustle of programs are done till the second week of July.

Just one funny from a kid this week. He is about 3 1/2 and he has a little 9 mth sister named Molly. She is so cute with blond curls in the back and I call her Molly girl and she gives the biggest smile fore me, but today she was cranky like any other 9mth old and well her brother said to mom..." Mommy can Midd Lynne take Molly home, she never stops crying and I think Midd Lynne can fix that". all we did was smile and laugh and he went on his way playing and picking out books and Molly smiled and fell fast asleep in mom's arms. When did I become "Midd" Lynne...I always thought I was Miss Lynne.

I will post early next week with the outcome of the Olympics and how the bus trip and sleeping in a hot dorm goes. Till then have a great week and weekend

Oh Hum

Oh hum, oh hum...that's all I have to say. Have you ever had one of those weeks when you think that nothing is going right and the time is dragging on and on and on? Well this week has been one of those days. Monday and Tuesday were good days, but man were they long and tiring. You would think with programming three times a week and getting ready for each one at a different time would take up lots of time and make it go fast....HA. Monday night we had movie night with Miss Lynne and we watched "Night at the Museum" and I planned a story time while watching that with the kids. Tuesday was a fun filled morning with baby/toddler time with 22 kids and 12 parents. YIKES. Wednesday was Preschool story time with about the same amount in attendance and then in the afternoon we had our first BIG program where 48 kids came and built a bug out of recycled materials and other art supplies. How inventive these kids are, bu how choatic too. Today is Thursday and well....if time goes any slower I think that I will fall asleep. It has been a very long day, busy with patrons, but time is moving to slow for my book.

In other news, I think that the Praxis test went well, but I will find out in four weeks. Keeping my fingers crossed. This is the last time that I had to take it. I hope that I am right with third time being the charm. This Friday is Matt's prom for work and as always he is looking forward to attending and has been trying to pick out and lay out his clothes for the past two weeks. I think that will be the job tonight and then he will be happy.

That is this week in a nutshell. No funny kid sayings this week. I was hoping to have some for you all. Maybe next week.

Until next time....

Sing, Read, Move

That is how this week went with the story times here at the library. Tuesday started out to be a fun filled day with babies and toddlers together trying to sing new songs and listen to stories for 30 minutes. Wednesday was the same but with the preschoolers. We talked about summer and the things that they like to do in the summer time with their family and friends. Some of the answers that I got were swim, sink (sing), run, jump on tires ( play at the playground). Of course I thought that there would be more funnies but that was it. There were a lot of new little ones and so it will take a week or so for them to get use to me as well as story time routines. I am sure there will be more kidisms later on. I had a friend visit story time today named Petey. Petey is a puppet that is a baby duck and he quacks when you move it mouth. I wish that I had a digi camera to show you what he looks like, but be is yellow with a spike of white hair, orange beak and feet and a white t-shirt that I painted Petey on it and a little boys ball cap. I am sure the picture would be better, but this will half to do. Of course he was the hit of the program instead of me telling stories.

Saturday is Fear Factor at the library and I am glad I am not working. I do not do well with gross thing. I know for sure there will be oily noodles, rice pudding with raisins for maggots and Kitty Litter Cake that is edible. Does not sound good at all to me.

While Fear Factor is happening, I will be taking my Special Education Praxis one last time and hope to pass it. This is a much harder test than all the other Praxis that I have taken. Third time is the charm right?!?!?! Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well.

Tuesday I picked my mom up from the airport so it was good to see her. She had a good time at here conference and brought homes lots of information and medical terms that I am sure are way above my head. I am just glad she knows what they mean.

This weekend I plan to spend time with the family and celebrate Fathers Day with my Dad and Granpa. I am looking forward at also getting my bike fixed up and moving. I really miss the summer bike rides. Let's hope I still know how to ride! AH HA

Till next time.......

Looking back...

can be very scary sometimes. Yesterday I was given the duty of moving yearbooks from the high school here at Glenoak to the library cupboards that are behind my desk. I had no idea that there were that many and how many copies of some years that the school had. So it was fun looking back at some of the pictures and findingfriends that I knew and chuckling about their photos as I am sure they would do if it was them looking at me. When I was all said and done I think that there were about 100 yearbooks and the oldest we have is from 1958. Oh how the teachers changed and who some are that are still here...yikes.

In other news...I think that I am fairly ready for the Summer Reading Club to start here next week. Of course there will be last minute things that I can't do until Saturday, but all in all it is ready to kickoff.

this weekend my mom is traveling to Conn. for a nursing conference so it's just me and the two boys, OK, Matthew and Dad. I have been planning a menu so they don't have to ask me what's for dinner. I will at least be one step ahead of them this time.

I just wish it would stop raining so that I could finish working in the flowers and mulch. Hopefully the next post will be with some kidisms from storytimes and the programs. They are always good ones, lets just hope I can remember them till I post.

till next time....