2 mile radius.

Today I was helping my youngest daughter put stickers on a really sweet note she wrote for her dad.

We found some ‘scratch & sniff’ stickers.

Remember those?

The moment I smelled the berry pie sticker I was taken back to piano lessons with Leanne Hedges in the Music Preparatory School at TCU. 

I can still see the various ‘praise’ stickers on the sheet music of songs I learned to play.

& since several years later I actually attended TCU as a student I started thinking about my education.

I’m thankful for the education, preschool to college {all of which were within a 2 mile radius of home}, I received so easily.

Not to say it was always an easy education {helllllooooo college biology} but that I didn’t have to work hard to show up & the supplies & resources were readily available.

I’m thankful for the value my parents placed on education & yet there was no pressure like that one dad in ‘School of Rock.’ 

Oh my stars I love that movie!
& most of all I’m thankful for teachers & their amazing dedication.

Aside from huge raises they all deserve every kind of scratch & sniff stickers ever made.

& if you’re a teacher reading this, send me your address & I’ll send you some! 

ps. Mr. Young, the other first grade teacher {meaning he wasn’t actually my teacher}, really loved bananas.

Why can I remember such things & yet I have forgotten to pick up my child for early release 2 out of 3 times?!