I've Surrounded Myself With Children
I realized today that the majority of my life is completely dedicated to children. I spend all day with them at work, then I go home and spend the rest of my life with them at home. I spend my evenings at cheerleading practice (a hazard of having a houseful of little girls), and my weekends are spent rooting for a football team for which my children will only cheer, never play.I get free time in the shower, and that's about it.
However, due to my incredibly sordid past, my kids are gone this weekend, and I'm all alone.
Haha, and you have no idea what I'm talking about, but that's ok.
Today at school my 3rd period class decided they wanted to have a discussion about the weather, and why this hurricane was so devastating. As a teacher, I need to be able to present the facts, so that's what I did. My wonderful students put the humanity into the story and left me in tears. I can't even begin to explain what happened in my classroom today, but it restored my faith in my job. My students took horrible weather, gave it a heart, poured a soul into it, then painted it a face. It was amazing.
I was sad to watch that class leave today, but leave they did and my regular routing came back (including the hellish 4th period). I survived it, finally got to pee at the end of the day, then got to go home.
At home, and I am going to complain at MSNBC for this later, I sat and watched the horrific visions of New Orleans. Of course I did. Didn't you? MSNBC, because it is such an OUTSTANDING (insert sarcasm here) news organization, interviewed children today.
Oh hell. Seriously. I'm I am in hell.
I sat on the couch and cried for over an hour watching these kids. As a human who is completely surrounded by kids, I have an empathy for children matched by maybe Mother Theresa. When another child hurts, I can feel it. All those kids who lost their parents in the tsunami, cried directly into my heart. I wanted to go bring them all home with me. I can take care of them.
No, I really can't.
I would like to be able to though.
This little boy on MSNBC was giving his very frank point of view, and I wanted to go give him a hug. I wanted to bring him a Big Mac. OH, and I wanted to give him a bath.
I hate it when kids are hurting. They shouldn't have to hurt. It's not fair to them. They haven't lived long enough to accrue Karma. Why do they have to deal with this?
I apoligize for yet another Katrina post. I kept thinking I was going to hold off on posting until this has passed, but that's not really fair either. I am a teacher. It is my job to educate. There are millions of displaced people, and thousands of them need education. That is what I do.
If there is anyone who knows how little old public servant me can give a hand (aside from giving more money. I have to go get my little girl a Bratz dollhouse, she made me so friggin proud when she gave her money *$120* to the red cross. She had been saving for a while.), please let me know. What else can I give?
posted by lobo5747 @ 7:33 PM
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You ought to be very proud of your little girl.
Ok, I donated. I donated some to
http://www.redcross.org
and I also donated to the Best Friend's Society. My daughter requested that we send some of the money to help all the pets that got lost.
My daughter is such an awesome kid.
Please keep the comments coming! I love to read them.
You are one of the heroes already! You give of your heart and your love and your devotion. You educate children ... whether they are in a classroom, in your home or just nearby. Teaching them the proper way to behave ... to have compassion for those that are in need ... inspiring them to be better adults ....
Those are ALL the things you CAN do to help ... and ARE doing! This will happen again, either on a lesser or greater scale. People will need to KNOW how to react ... and how to have compassion!
You are doing far more than I can do. I would dearly love to open my home ... but I live too far away. I also am not well and have limited space and funds. But if I could I WOULD!
OMG K your post made me cry. Especially when you talked about your wonderful daughter giving all that money away.
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