My cousin Trisha who teaches at a VERY small school in Nevada, several hours from a grocery store, pointed out a law about how teachers in her state have to swear they have never been a principle or second in a duel. I think that is pretty limiting, especially in places as civilized as Austin, Nevada. She needs to write about it on her blog rather than just post it on Facebook. For a good read, I recommend her whole blog. There is an especially good story about how there are no air compressors at the gas stations in Austin so it puts a real crimp in your style when you have two flat tires.
Day: October 24, 2011
Day 63 of 1000
This weekend was a wildly eventful weekend for the Chapman family. Lorena, Kelly, and Christian all had a ton of homework and I needed to come up to speed on some new technology. We finished all (or most) of that, got sick on a carnival ride at the North Carolina State Fair, and went to Sunday meeting. We had a very good weekend, but the most fun of the whole weekend, by far, was Lucia’s visit on Friday night. Lucia is Troy and Youngin‘s little one year old girl. She was with us for several hours and did not even come close to a whimper let alone cry.
We learned lots of things about Lucia. She LOVES peas (Lorena’s chicken a-la-King is loaded with peas) and tofu. She loves to read and count (one page of one book in particular). She speaks baby sign language. AND you can see from the picture she is a big fan of NCSU. A brilliant and beautiful child on all counts.
I think I scare little kids, so I back way off when they first arrive. It usually takes an hour or so for them to warm up to me if I work at it slowly in a non-aggressive way. Lucia wanted to be held by Lorena and Kelly and was very attracted to Christian, but had warmed up to me pretty early in the evening. She would bring me stuff and talk to me about it, read a book, let me feed her some peas–all that good stuff.
It is such a joy to be around a happy child and to watch and help them learn. I miss that a lot. I hope we get to do that again soon.