It's a Small World

She was my favorite Sunday School teacher in the Idaho town of my youth....she was awesome and lll the kids adored her. Then she got married, and we liked her husband, Vince. She had a baby, and then Vince got a brain tumor. Oh, way too young, but he died.

I heard she got married to a man whose wife had died, leaving several young children. They had a child of their own....and as, is so often the case.....I lost total contact with or about her.

One day, many many years later, my grandson - who had just moved to Hurricane, Utah, mentioned his Sunday School teacher's name, and I thought, "There is just, "NO WAY!"

But, it was true....my teacher as a Southern Idaho teen was now my grandson's teacher as a Southern Utah teen.

And, yes, it's true...he liked her as much as I had all those years before....

Thanks, Marba Cottle Pearson Thompson for sharing your love with my grandson and with me and with countless others in between!

We Just Call Him Doc!

Teacher of Kindergarten: We'll need to take him out of the classroom for speech therapy.

Mrs. Mom: But, lots of kindergartners can't say their rrr's. I'm sure it will take care of itself......

Teacher of 4th grade: I'm having to give him an "F" in handwriting because it's so unreadable.

Mrs. Mom: Well, maybe it will be an asset to him in his chosen career.....

Teacher of 6th grade Math: We're putting him in the basic math class. We feel that will be best for him.

Mrs. Mom: But, did you test him? He's really very bright. By putting him in basic math, he won't be able to take all the math in high school, and I'm sure he wants to go to college.........

Teacher of Gym: He can't run, the kids make fun of him, what will he be able to do if he can't run?

Mrs. Mom: But, he's so gifted in so many other ways....

Well, now he can say his rrrr's, he did graduate from college, not many make fun of him anymore, and his handwriting is just what the DOCTOR ordered!

Happy Birthday, dear son, Jordan...we are very proud of your achievements!