LIFES A BEACH!

Geez you guys.  All this catching up to do.  Don't ya'all forget to..........

LMAO.....You 2 are something Else!!!!

Sharon....Don't you mean GO BLOW! Hahahaha!

ARNIE.....YOU ARE MAKING ME HUNGRY!!!!!

GOOD Idea though You 2!!!! Sit Back & Relax......

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple of ducks I saw
to start out our day..

Beeeeeutiful Lisa!

What's the temp in your area today?

Hi Coonie...probably will reach 75 today here...warm for us in January

Lisa, what a lovely reminder that spring is coming.

Awhh love the pretty flowers.

This pic is from one of my favorite spots

Laguna Beach, CA

I love Laguna Beach too...

Back to surfing my couch. Wrapped in my cozy robe. Soaking up the energy & prayers of the community.

I had a group of about 3 dozen toddlers this morning. Maybe more. We were singing all the familiar kiddie songs. I was strummin' away and we were all singing the infamous Barney song: "I love you, you love me........" This little teeny tot, bellows out, "Debbie I LOVE you!!!"

I literally started crying midverse.

So the teachers started singing 'for' me.

Which of course made me cry more.

This was at minute number 3 of a 20 minute session. I started squeezing my toes and pinching my inards to regain some composure.

Anyhow, plop plop plop plop plop came the tears. Three dozen children looked at me..... and then sent me their collective nonverbal love.

I wish I could explain it.

They are not even three years old. Some cocked their heads, others crinkled their forheads, but they all just sent me their love galore.

After the teachers got done singing the song, I told the kiddos to close their eyes for their surprise...... which gave me 10 or 15 seconds to regroup...... and on with the show.

I put on my FB page, this next portion.

We were all done singing, and they were filing out the door. This wee-might-of-a-boy, who barely comes up beyond my knees, is walking past me as I hold the door open. He pats my knee and says, "What are those?" (He is asking about my black and pink striped tights.) I tell him, "Those are my stripes." He wrinkles up his entire face and says "Do they hold you up?"

Thank heavens it was my last class in that building and I had to walk outdoors in the frigid air to my car and drive a few miles to their other branch. Again, with the regrouping.

I've been thinking about that collective 'toddler' response all afternoon. I can't yet express it yet, but they weren't the least bit dismayed that I would start crying mid-song. Then I got to thinking about toddlers & how they cry on a dime -- with every injustice and missing blankie. It's done me a lot of good today, to think that I can keep singing, literally in the midst of my tears, and that I won't upset the children.

Now the teachers........ I don't suppose there was a dry eye in the room.

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psssssssssssst: Arnie's on FB!!!! Now we just need to recruit Coonie.

We all cry when we lose our blankie...........I think that's a good story and I'm sticking to it.

This is for Faith

I just reported on our Jan. surgery thread that I just had my first volcanic erruption of emotion, spewing hysterical sobbing......

Brief erruption.

Oddly comforting???

On with the show.

Have no idea where I've reported what..... but tomorrow is PreAdminTesting afternoon..... anyone available for a field trip, I'd sure appreciate the company.

I'm looking for a new Beaver-purse. Don't tell the PETA people. Probably not politically correct.

Hopefully the spewing is done for a bit.

What a roller coaster.

Saint has updated her findings of the day.

ma fille vole à la France.