Terrific Tuesday

1) I got to spend a lot of time in the temple today and do lots of ordinances.
2) I saw some of my former students - one gave me a hug, they ALL want to TA for me next year (one has already graduated but wants to come back and be in my classroom). 
3) My interview went EXTREMELY well - if they don't hire me, it will be because the Lord has other plans for me.
4) I got to have a good chat with my wonderful sister Angèle.
5) I was able to laugh at something I saw today. "Is your social worker in the horse?" "Yes." (Hannibal - it's dark... but that made me laugh and I appreciated the laugh.)

2 -- I became a teacher because I wanted to change lives for the better. My heart practically exploded to hear how much my former students loved my class and all three wanted to TA for me just to be around me. They spoke of lunches and Halo and watching Community. I know I SHOULDN'T care so much what my students think of me - but it makes a difference in class. (I also know of students there and in Japan who didn't care for me, but the majority really loved my class and that meant the world to me!)

I am looking forward to a low key day tomorrow. All I have planned is my workout and crying. (I say crying because a remembrance book for someone very near and dear to me is arriving tomorrow and I fully expect that I my heart will miss her all the more looking at her photos. What a bittersweet thing death is. I'm so glad I will see her again in the next life. If nothing else, THAT would make me a Mormon. Don't tell me life ends after this. That's crap! I will be with my family again. I look forward to seeing family and friends (and in the past four years I've lost seven people very close to me so I'm looking forward even more to the time when I will see them all again).

An Old English blessing:

May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.