So, I haven't been around for a while but I'm guessing this is just as good a time as any to come back and leave some thoughts in the virtual world.

I was shocked to see how many views my blog had, especially seeing that it's semi private, in the sense that I haven't really shared it nor do I have more than 4 followers.

Looks like it's a time of change in my life and in the world around me. 

Yesterday was the elections here in Boston. It was in fact a historical moment. 

I watched as people woke up. People realized that their world wasn't as tiny and insignificant as they may have believed.

Ok, I'm back.

So much has been going on...

Not sure I know how to express any of it.

Just know that I'm awake.

I was numb and now it hurts, but I'm awake.

Been sitting around watching everyone else follow their dreams.

Not sure where I left mine.

Maybe under a pile of dirty clothes or next to the mountain of bills.

Where ever they are, it's time to get moving!

Role reversal

I am a broken record in class at times, I'm aways saying "What's easy for you may not be easy for someone else and what's easy for them may be difficult for you, don't blurt out 'that's easy'!'"

Today my biggest offender found himself in an interesting position...I paired him up with a student who usually struggles with all subjects hoping he could help him out while they worked in pairs on a measuring activity.

He had to admit that he needed help and couldn't do the activity, the other child (who usually struggles) had already done it correctly the day before. Child 2 went from struggling to teaching, and child 1 went from "that's easy" to "I can't do this".

He ended the lesson by coming to me and saying "He's a great teacher, (long pause) I didn't know I could learn from him"

Me-"It was easy for him wasn't it! Now do you see why I always say that?"

Student-"Yeah, I get it"

So many things are so great about what happened here that I had to share!

Great Idea

Watching a reality show, one about renewing restaurants in danger of closing, the owner says to the camera that it has been a really tough year. The worst for her was losing her husband. Having lost him had been a very difficult thing to overcome.

Anelisse turn's to me and says: "Mami, I've got a GREAT idea"-eyes wide open and a smile on her face. "Why doesn't she just FIND her husband and then she'll be happy again."

It truely was a great idea if it was taken in the literal sense. Sometimes as adults we have trouble seeing past the problem. Uncomplicating things isn't our forte. I think that although it sounds impossible to us as adults to find someone we have "lost" we shouldn't dismiss the idea as ridiculous. People come into and go out of our lives all of the time. They make an impact. They teach us something about ourselves and others. It would not be impossible to "find" them within us.

Not to say that that's where I was going with this but it makes sense sometimes to look at things through the uncomplicated eyes of a child and realize that the answer to our problems are, at times, as easy as a GREAT idea, just FIND it.