I work for cupcakes

I woke up this morning and discovered Fall came last night!  It was cold enough I turned the furnace on before I showered and outside the trees were dropping leaves like flower girls at an immense wedding.  This was my kind of day!

I felt much better than yesterday.  Maybe because I'd had about twenty hours of sleep, or maybe because the weather was crisp and clean and healthy feeling, but most probably just because whatever was in my system had worked its way out.  Still, I took it pretty easy this morning, talking to bestest on the phone and watching Candace on HGTV.

Around noon I headed over to the school where I volunteer and even that started better than usual.  I finally have a name tag and do not have to paste a visitor tag onto my shirt twenty times a day any more.

I am starting to get a feel of what is expected of me in kindergarten and my teacher is beginning to understand what she can ask me to do.  Life is so much simpler this way.  I wander around asking young authors to read me their stories, help some "turtle talk" the new words they are writing, lead the letter bingo game and scramble to clean up between projects.  Then today I stayed a little later.

I got to be Sam, a library mouse in today's book.  The children asked him to make them books like he did in the book we read and they left him eight goldfish as a thank you.  I sneaked down to the workroom and made 28 books that said, "words and pictures by (each child's name)."  On the back "Sam" signed each one with his name inside a heart.  This is my favorite sort of work to do.

Tomorrow a roomful of kindergartners will be surprised that Sam did come and left them each a book to write and illustrate.  Tomorrow we will have a room full of young authors!

Oh, and I got a cupcake too since Nicole had a birthday!