Fading…

Like the sun slowly escapes from the day behind the trees in the distance. You reach out your hand to touch, but it’s to far out in the distance. Like a child who loses influence over the enclosure of sleep on his tiny body. You reach out your hand to keep him awake, but it’s gained him entirely. Like your reflection on the clear unblemished surface of the water until the day turns to night. You reach out and brush the pure representation, but it’s too late. Like the crisp colors of brand new clothes, that become less intense as it is worn. You use color saving detergent, but no matter how much you try, time takes it away. Just as these fade over time. I also fade. No matter how much I try to push myself away from that inevitable fade, there are times in my life when I just need a reaching hand to hold, someone to wake me up, the sun to keep a reflection a little longer, and colors to stay bright. Well I’ve reached that FADING moment in my life. I can’t hold on any longer. I am losing grip of everything around me, and I want it back!

Mystery Solved…Nickname Gained! :)

So there is a little boy that goes to my church and goes to the preschool there too. He is the cutest little boy ever! 🙂 Anyway the kids at preschool call me Miss Chelsea when I aide in the class.  I love love LOVE these kids! 🙂 Well it just so happens that the way this little boy says my name is the cutest ever, but one time I was hanging out with him and he called me Michelle. I couldn’t figure out why he called me Michelle and  his mom heard it too and she didn’t know why either. Well today I figured it out! He didn’t call me Michelle, he called me Miss CHEL!!! He shortened my name and kind of combined them together when he said it. So cute! The mystery is solved and ladies and gentlemen I have gained a new nickname! 🙂 I shall be Miss Chel for the rest of the year! 😉

Sinus Infection Plague…*RUN AWAY*

I had gone 13 days in the month of April without being sick. That my friends is a RECORD! I have been sick since I started my internship in January and it never fails, at least once every month all I want to do is lay in bed and eat soup. Well I am learning to be content through sickness and I am hoping that this immune system training/building (aka: getting sick once a month) is all going to be for a purpose. I’m over medication and refuse to take yet another antibiotic. In ancient greek -anti- means against and -bios- means life. And even though I think that antibiotics are really against my life, they are against the life of bacteria growing rapidly in my body, but I think after becoming best friends with the guy in the pharmacy at CVS that it is time to let this illness run its course. I don’t want to see that guy again. I am praying that it doesn’t return in the month of May once it is gone! 🙂 With that being said, I am off to bed to get some much need R&R!!!

Here are some pics…

Peace. Love. and Cookies

It takes talent…

You would think that police officers have better things to do, (like solve crimes, and arrest hard core criminals) but instead they decide to stop me to let me know that I had a headlight out. Not just one, but two! I got pulled over twice in one day and that ladies and gentlemen that takes talent. Despite the unexpected and unwanted visitors to my car window today was a pretty good day! Now I need to pack!!!

Peace. Love. and Popsicles

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I’ll LOVE ya Tomorrow! You’re only A DAY AWAY!!!

Well a day in the life of a 2 year old preschool teachers shoes. Yeah, she can have her shoes back, I don’t want them! LOL…okay so it was a rough day all around, but I’m still smiling and believe it or not I still love the 2 year olds. For beginners it was opposites day. So yes, this morning I wiggled myself into a button down shirt backwards and put a polo over it…Challenging, but successful. Well I think that is what threw the whole day off. I think the terrible 2 plague landed in the Winnie the Pooh’s Classroom at County Line Church. Yes, this is NOT an understatement…they were whining and crying and pushing and kicking and anything else a 2 year old can do to drive a person and their fellow classmates into an upheaval and a teacher to site gray hair. Well I am only in my 20’s and I think I’m getting gray hairs….LOL. The class started out in the playroom, which to our surprise one of those precious, cute, little balls of pricelessness pooped on the jungle gym. What an adventure. Moving right along two of the little boys decided they were going to have what most grown men have, which I like to call SELECTIVE hearing. It was like the kids didn’t want to listen today. Now, I must admit I got myself into this madness, but you can bet I will give second thought to the next subbing call I get for the 2’s. To continue the day after the preschool/ learning a lesson on having children ended…I thought it would be a nice little breather to go pick up some lunch…well to my dismay when I arrived the employees were asking the customers how they were going to pay for their food and would ya believe it, the credit card machine wasn’t working. So I put that smile back on my face to hide the bitterness that is about to burst forth from within and I get back in my car and drive over to leo to get subway, which I waited an another  20 mins, because despite the fact that this little town has a population of like 30 everyone from the 20 surrounding counties must have been at Subway today. So I get my food and drive back to church to get some work done and guess who arrived as soon as I got done eating…the good old headache that sends piercing pain through my eyes. So I take some meds and it goes away as the time progresses. Going through my weekly check-list and with about an hour to go till 5pm I quickly eliminate the tasks that seem to daunting to finish in an hour. So i decided to relax a little and repaint three of the balloons on the carpet in one of the preschool classrooms. Harmless painting, where I could relax my mind and my eyes from staring at a computer…so I get out the paint and go to work. I am on my last balloon and lo and behold I get distracted and the next thing I know I can feel the paint oozing through my brand new jeans…ahhh yes that nice acrylic, completely permanent paint, so my reflexes guided me to the bathroom, and guess what…I couldn’t for the life of me get a paper towel out of the dispenser…so I hobble down to the other classroom with a bathroom and after 20 mins of scrubbing I came to the conclusion that this was NOT coming out of my pants. STINK!!! Then tonight I decided to go on a suit case buying excursion with a friend and on the way home I had a chocolate shake…in a cup with a lid and a straw…the bottom of the cup had a tiny hole in it and all the way home it was dripping all down my shirt and on my pants…wonderful, but it sure was good! Then I got back in my car to discover that one of my headlights is out…I guess I will be reading up on how to change a honda civic’s headlight…this could be another adventure to write about. When I returned to Fort Wayne, I was trying to wring out my pants that had been soaking to get rid of the paint and I ended up drenching myself with water….. Needless to say I am laughing at myself as I write this and I am sure you will all get a kick out of it…I guess we need these days to bring us back to planet earth after hiding out in cloud 9 for awhile…YES I am back to reality and hoping for a better day tomorrow. Goodnight!!!

Peace. Love. and Cupcakes!!!! 🙂