Never Give Up a Good Photo Op

Never Give Up a Good Photo Op

Here I am, the mother of the bride. I was the last minute photographer my daughters wedding.  My Dad had also made Ellie and Alans wedding cakes.  I had not yet taken the cut the cake shots, and I spied the cutest little boy checking out the cake. What can I say?  I...

Shimmy Jimmy

One of the other second graders boy likes to dance and shake his body at lunch so I called him shimmy jimmy. Well Alan caught wind of this and walked up to me about 2 months ago and said I can shimmy better then shimmy jimmy. And he started dancing and moving around...

Paws Tickets

So they give out paws tickets for good behavior. Well I would give Alan one or two everyday for helping me with trash. One day I didn’t see Alan at the normal trash time. I looked around and there he was fixing all the lunch trays that the kids put in the dish window...

The cleaning machine

The machine I clean the cafe floor with was sitting in the cafe and Alan loved turning that key and turning it on. There is a few buttons to push as well. I let him push those buttons and he was so proud as he was able to do it. So once after his lunch last year I let...

Fixing the drinking fountain

My last story for today. I was working on fixing a drinking fountain last year. I saw two shoes standing by me. I looked up and it was Alan. After he asked me all about what I was doing he just stood there watching me. So I said hey can you hold this screwdriver for...

Clowning Around

So I don’t like clowns and most of the kids in Alan’s grade love teasing me about it. Alan included. One day he came up to me and said something to the effect “ I know you don’t like clowns, so I’m just teasing you about liking clowns” after I teased him back for a...