Just a couple more days to go before the school year ends. SO looking forward to that. Still so many last-minute things to complete, though, before then. My to-do list is long, but I've gotten a number of ticks in and that feels good. The thing that felt really great, though, was finally finding the Dr. Seuss books that I'd kept hidden away.
I have a couple of copies of Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go! --one each for J and for Z. Every year, toward the end of the school year, I bring out these books and get their teachers to write a little message for them on the books. I have been doing this since they were in kindergarten. The plan is to give them the book when they graduate from high school. A little something with which to send them forth into the big, big world.
About a month ago, I started panicking because I couldn't find them. I was worried that they had gotten lost somehow during our move. I'd searched high and low, looked everywhere. I was 99% sure that I had brought it back with us, but didn't remember where I had stashed them. I was almost resigned to the fact that I might have to just ask the teachers to write on a note paper and that I'd stick those notes in the books when (or if) I find them.
This morning, for some odd reason, I woke up really early and all I could think of were those books. I don't know why, but something made me check one of the drawers where I keep stationery. I never would have put the books there (and most certainly do not remember doing so!), but yet there they were! What a wonderful way to start the day!
