14 February, 2006

behold the power of children and chocolate

Okay, I was having a crummy valentine's day this morning. My beloved is on a business trip, and I'm a single parent for the week. Low blood sugar, almost late to school, listening to several instances of bad news from family and parish...

and then the 4-year-old class showed up.

I'm the 'special friend' for Mrs. X's 4-year-old class. (every staff member is adopted as a special friend by one of the classes.) They came and sang happy birthday to me last October, they made me a Christmas card, that sort of thing.

Today, it was coffee, home made chocolate-chip cookies (my favorite), and a knock-me-over-in-a-gang-tackle hug from nine children all cheerfully singing "happy valentine's day, father cristopher, we love you!"

some days I LOVE this job.