Today I am cleaning out cupboards and closets. Not a fun job! The garbage man will surely hate me this next week.

Then the boys started cleaning their rooms. Not the usual cleaning put purging as I was. There are a few things that they don't really want to get rid of and don't use or have outgrown or don't have space for but can't spare them.

Since they were younger I have always kept memory boxes for each of them. As the years go by and they have made something interesting I have kept it, or done some good school work, or a special toy, or a special card they were given, a pretty picture, picures of their frinds that are not in their own photo albums, any wooden things that I thought they would like to give to their kids or some special book they loved and I did not donate, or their school report cards, or even notes their friends have given them and I found them in pockets when doing laundry, or even special rocks or fossils they have drug home. You get the picture.

Today I showed the boys the new memory boxes that I started 2 years ago. They each have one with their name on it. I took each boy aside one at a time and showed them this box and explained there were others in the attic much like this one that I have kept since thier births. I told them that the items that they could not bare to part with could be added to their box and they are kept now in the laundry room on a shelf.

Each boy seemed happy that I had been doing that and that some day they would look over all the things from their past. They were also pleased to have a box to add their keepsakes or toys in this case that they could not part with right now.

What started as an icky day has now turned a little brighter for me since I shared this with them and now you.

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." William Blake

Think about it

Not sure how to do all of those things yet I am new.

1. I am handicapable and wear a leg brace

2. I love being near water like beaches, canoeing, kyaking, camping, fishing

3. I have been working at the same preschool for 14 years

4.(don't think less of me) I am a smoker and do this not around my family, it seems to be an activity that I do not have to share and can be alone. I know that is crazy and I am an educated person who knows better but I guess I am an addict.

5. I lived in town and my father was the town banker but a boy gave me a pet pig for my 14th birthday and her name was Polly and she lived in our backyard for a year.

6. I loved high school and could that again!

7. I have been feeling old lately,43

8.last summer I survived the boudary waters for 2 weeks with our boy scout group, I am proud of this because I survived and didn't break anything but have scars to help me remember the trip everyday.

9. I drive a huge red conversion van

10. I feel so lucky cause I love my family, I am also trying very hard to survive my 15 years old teenage moods and attitudes

Oh, sorry I thought it was 10 not 6 and apperently got carried away. 

I hope I am doing this right. I have a lot of experience with all types of children. I was a director of 3 different preschools and was a private school Kindergarten teacher and a preschool teacher for many years. I could help answer many questions for some people.

I also have many years of experience with the Boy Scouts of America. We like the great outdoors and traveling.

If you have any questions that you think I could answer then please contact me.