A Taste of My Own Medicine!

I'm such a mean teacher. Apparently my homework this week got parents thinking. It was the 100th day of school week and I sent home a page full of activities that parent and child could choose from for homework. Things like "write 100 words" or "find 100 items" stuff like that. I thought it would be a blast.

Then I was surfing my blog friends and came across Natalie's blog. She is the mother of Dallin who is one of my first graders. Natalie decided to go ahead and do one of the activities herself. It was the "write 100 of your favorite things" activities. I got quite excited thinking that I should do it too.

So, here is my list of 100 favorite things (you should do this...it's very enlightening)

1. Hand Quilting

2. J Dawg hot dogs

3. Reading aloud to my first graders and using silly voices for the characters

4. Hearing my first graders giggle like loons over said voices

5. Weight Watchers on line

6. Terry's patience

7. Mel Rae's quiet strength

8. Erika's spirit

9. When I see Tyler being such an awesome husband to Erika

10. Watching tv (I know! It's brainless but I love it)

11. Singing showtunes in the car

12. Peanut butter

13. The Book Thief

14. The gospel

15. The sound of a Diet Coke dropping in a Coke machine

16. The sound of a Diet Coke can when I open it

17. Blogging

18. Dr. Soissen

19. Terry's painting of the cougar that had his marriage proposal taped to the back

20. Cheese burgers

21. Sonic mozzarella sticks

22. Kathe...my twin sister from a different mother

23. Organizing drawers and cupboards

24. The sound of automatic sprinklers turning on outside

25. The smell of the dishwasher when it's doing a load

26. Accomplishing a "manly" task...like installing a toilet all by myself! (It's true)

27. Reading my students journals and laughing and laughing (example: today a little girl wrote that she was "all alone and (sigh) sad (sigh)." she really did write the sigh's in there!...so adorable!)

28. Orange

29. Rubber ducks

30. My Mac computer

31. The GDT

32. Isabel

33. Milo

34. Keeler

35. Yoga (oh, how I love it)

36. Twins

37. Kate Di Camillo

38. Cholula

39. 100% Whole Wheat

40. Lyla

41. Olivia

42. Canada

43. My fellow first grade teaching team: Rachel, Frankie, and Me

44. Yellow

45. Royan

46. June 7th

47. Homemade laundry detergent

48. Dresses

49. Aprons

50. Eli

51. Audrie

52. Third Nephi

53. Tying 23 pair of shoes every day (Just kidding! That is not-so-favorite)

54. Erin

55. Fort Collins

56. Spencer

57. Shoes with a wedge heel

58. The blouse that Kathe gave me for Christmas

59. My brown boots

60. Melissa

61. Josh

62. Being a wicked step-mother

63. When one of those ridiculously cute grandkids calls me "Grami Tami"

64. Honeycrisp apples

65. Peppers

66. Abbie

67. Forrest

68. NYC

69. Singing at church

70. Texting at church (shhhhhh...don't tell)

71. Playing Rock Band (but NOT at church)

72. Purple Skittles

73. Temple Square

74. Red Rock Brewery

75. Park City

76. Leg wrestling

77. Pedicures

78. Flying

79. Getting my hair cut and colored

80. Singing "Zippity-Do-Da" first thing every morning with my class

81. Listening to a struggling reader improve by leaps and bound between December and January...such a great feeling!

82. Boxtops (Ha!)

83. My Blackberry

84. My kidney

85. Forgiveness

86. Disneyland

87. Sri Lanka

88. Dreaming at night

89. "The Office" (that's what she said)

90. Salt

91. The Mt. Timpanogos temple

92. The actual Mt. Timpanogos when it receives its first snowfall of the year

93. The smell of freshly cut grass

94. One point snacks

95. Delivering good news to parents of first graders

96. Supportive parents of my first graders

97. My siblings

98. Route 44 Diet Coke w/lime

99. Silver and white gold

100. You...yes, you!

...I will now return to my quilt week...I need to add an "s" to "week". This is taking longer than I thought.