Bubble Busted

I am a teacher. I like to think that on a good day I make a lasting impression. Not like I am the best teacher, but maybe with a saying or a good joke or an action or better yet an impactful lesson. Today, I finally had the chance to go through a former student's line at the grocery store. Yes, he is old enough to work now. :( He was very friendly joking around and I said, "Do you not recognize me?" Because really how much have I changed? He said, "Should I?" I said, "I was your third grade teacher." He said, "Wow! I am all big now. Third grade was a long time ago." I said, "It took me back when I first saw you working here. I said to myself, he is old enough to work!" He laughed. "He said, you are Ms." Nothing. Nothing other than Ms. this is where I felt the bubble bust. He doesn't even remember my name. I said, "Mrs. E...." He said, "Oh yeah! Mrs. E...." I then said, "See you next time." I then rushed my children out of the store. For about thirty seconds I thought, well, so much for touching them all. Then I thought I was being pretty selfish, I might not be the teacher that spoke to him, I just hope there was one along the way. I am surprised I even remember his name it was my first year of teaching and what a whirlwind that was! So, hopefully next time I see Mr. Iamoldenoughtoworknow he will remember that Mrs. E... was his third grade teacher.

On a not so bubble popping moment. I just completed creating over 150 cupcakes, it only took eleven hours including clean up time. The first 78 have designs on them, I am not 100% thrilled with them. But the rest, oh I am in love! They are pretty. If the camera weren't charging getting ready for PK musical and PK4 graduation I would post some pictures!

It Was Deep..

Today, I was scrubbing some cupcake pans that I borrowed and I was having some really profound thoughts. Where did those thoughts go? I have no idea. All I know is this, I was thinking deeply and thought it was worth blogging about...and now nothing.

So, I will blog about these pans. I was so excited about these pans until I got them home and started looking at them. They were NASTY! Like beyond nasty-nasty. So, I tried to clean them with some soap and water, nothing. I sprayed them with oven cleaner and let them sit overnight. Then I used a Brillo-type thing to scrub like crazy and the thoughts started. What happened to those pans? They look great! I put them in the oven for a test run and well, they don't smell so great...so we'll stick to the pans I have here at the house or pan I should say. Someone did let me borrow their pan so that will help. The last thing I want is funky tasting cupcakes because those pans were smokin'.

No deep thoughts here, not tonight. I am sure whatever it was I was thinking about was really good stuff.

I did want to post on fb tonight that I'd like to retain my whole class this year, but I didn't think that would fly well on fb and well honestly, I don't think that would fly well with parents. Onward! That is what I keep telling myself: ONWARD!