pamelamyers | March 6, 2016
This week Sam is finally Star of the Week. She has been waiting for so long for this to happen. Every week, one student in her class gets randomly picked to be “Star”. When you are star, the first day you bring in a poster with a bunch of pictures of you, your family, whatever you want, really. On other days, you get to bring “star snack”, you bring in 3 favorite toys or objects to talk about, there is a “star interview” (a sheet is sent home with some questions about the star and the teacher interviews the star based on those questions, and finally, on the last day, the star brings home the “star compliments” book which is a book assembled of drawings each of the classmates does of the star and says why they are special. It is probably the most exciting thing they do in their minds. I am so happy that Sam gets to be star this week because with Joe passing and the funeral coming up it would be good for her to be the center of attention in her class for a while. Let people make a fuss over her and all that. It will be a good distraction for all of us, I think.
Sam was so excited to make her poster. She asked for orange posterboard and the only kind I could find was metallic (oh, what a shame 🙂 ). She told me what kinds of pictures she wanted and we printed them out. When it came time to adhere the pictures, I was going to use double-sided tape, but Sam had her own ideas. She used stickers to hold them on. She is quite original! I think it turned out amazing. I bet it was the nicest star poster yet!
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pamelamyers | March 5, 2016
I don’t know how I am even able to write this post, but it has to be done. Samantha would want me to, and he deserves that much. Two days ago, on March 3, 2016, Samantha’s Poppy died. We are all sort of in shock, numb, really. He had health issues, but even so, it seemed to happen so fast. Truthfully, he was in the hospital not much more than a week, and was expected to go home. I feel like in Samantha’s short life, she has had to say goodbye too many times. To her Mom Mom, to so many little cats she loved so dearly. And now to her Poppy, her bosom buddy. They spent so much time together while Samantha was with her Grandmom and Poppy while I work. I am so grateful that she got to have that relationship with him. That she got to be the apple of his eye. That she got to bring him so much joy, and he her. That she is old enough to hold on to the memories they made. They had a special relationship. He would have done just about anything for my little girl. It breaks my heart that she has lost him. I have no more words. Just that we miss you already. Samantha will be bereft, but don’t worry, Poppy, we will take good care of this little girl. Always.
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pamelamyers | March 4, 2016
At school, they had a week long celebration for Dr. Seuss’s birthday. There was crazy sock day, crazy hat day, wearing all green, wearing stripes of all types, etc. Samantha loved it, having a new theme every day. Here are some of her pictures from the week.
Making the hat was an experience, but it came out ok. Sam was thrilled with it, and that’s all that matters.
She has no shortage of striped clothing, but putting the stripes on her face was all her idea. She is clever, I’ll give her that!
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