Wonderful!

This morning I went into my teammate's room to borrow a book, and as I was walking out one of her little girls literally yelled, "You look wonderful!" at me. With a beginning like that, how could today not be a great day?

And it sure was. While my elderly substitute teacher taught my class (how?), I pulled students out to do their math screener tests. It went fairly quickly and didn't feel as terribly repetitive as our reading test for some reason. 

At lunch time my brother Joshua came to visit me with a special birthday lunch (Snarfs!), gift, and singing Justin Beiber card. It really was so nice and thoughtful and fun!

Then, at the end of the day, Nathan came to visit me in the hallway where I was working. He said, "I have to tell you something weird. Something awkward. There was this thing in my house and it was invisible and picking up my car." We then established that it was a toy car, not his parents' car, and that a "ghost" was picking it up. I was not timid in showing my skepticism, to which Nathan replied, "Some people don't believe in ghosts because they haven't seen them. But I have seen all of them a lot of times." After we talked about this for a few minutes, he continued to go on, "Always remember that I usually do good things, but when I do a bad thing it's because a ghost was telling me to do it. Always remember." Don't worry, I don't feel concerned that he's actually schizophrenic or anything. After all of this, and many "always remember"s (to which I replied "never forget"), Nathan said, "Oh! And one more thing," and then gave me a hug. Precious angel.