A New Beginning

The past 3 weeks have been full of packing, unpacking, cleaning, decorating, meetings, making copies, laminating, and lots more.  And even with all these things going on I have been able to have some fun too! God has really been blessing my time in Branson so far and I know he will continue to do so. Here are a few of the ways I've felt His love lately:

*Spending time with old friends
*Making new friends
*Coffee and Conversation (Women's Night at church, yes I'm a full-out grown up now, I go to the women's events!)
*Placing me in a wonderful school district and school building. (Our back to school district meeting was opened with prayer!)
*Providing me an awesome 3rd grade team of teachers, and a very sweet and kind mentor teacher. I would be lost without her.
*Giving me 26 students to love and teach.

My last blessing leads me into the name of my blog...I decided to name it learning, love, and laughter because that is what I know this next chapter in my life is going to be full of.  First, although I am the "teacher" I will be learning just as much if not more than the kids this year. Next, love, I know I'm going to need to choose to love my children every single day. The reason I decided to be a teacher was because I knew I want to serve and love kids. And last, laughter. I know this year is going to be full of trials. I told mom that instead of crying when things go wrong I'm going to try my best to laugh! We'll see how well I do with that, but I haven't cried yet (I know its only been two days).

I also want a place to share cute things my students say. So I'm going to try to have at least one kid quote for each blog post. Enjoy!

Kids Quotes:

From one of my students who was talking to his group members and didn't know I could hear him. "Ok guys, raise your hand if you love Miss Bass. I mean not like LOVE LOVE her, but love her like you love ice cream."