These past two weeks it's been, to put it mildly, a marathon at school. This morning we had our school Christmas program and the students got to recite "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and do their square dance. Their recitation of the poem was spot on, but it was the dancing that brought down the house. The students squared off in their five sets and when the happy music started playing and the caller (our principal) started calling the moves, the students started dancing...and the audience began clapping, louder and louder, in time to the music. The joyful energy in that room just about lifted the roof. All the boys (most who had been on the fence the whole time about this dancing with girls thing) and all the girls (who were already in love with dancing their feet off) stepped it up and grinned ear to ear, even as they danced with renewed energy. I sat there, mesmerized and enchanted. After weeks of pushing and pleading and cajoling and ordering these children to dance, there they were, in the zone, loving every minute of it. This is an experience that I'm sure will be with them forever -- the day they danced while the audience clapped. I'm happy.
When I got home this afternoon, this package was waiting for me inside the gate to the driveway.
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My order of yarn! Arriving three days early!!! Life is good -- I'm warping a project up tonight and hope to start weaving tomorrow. Christmas break is here!
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