Last Thursday was an extremely rainy day for So Cal standards. Much to my surprise, my class handled it incredibly well, other that they arrived at school during the biggest down pour of rain we have seen in a year or more. All of them were soaked from head to toe!
VERY SOAKED!
Every morning I greet each student at the door, give them a hug and expect a "good morning" or "hi" or some sort of response back from them. On this rainy day, one of my little three and a half year old girls stopped in the doorway when I greeted her. Instead of responding to my greeting she said in her cute, squeaky voice, "Wait! I have to dump the rain out of my shoes!" And then sits down in the door way like they normally do when they have to dump the sand out after recess. She rips off one shoe, turns it over to dump it out, puts it back on and does the same with the other shoe. Of course there was no rain IN her shoe, but it probably felt like there was.
How simple their little minds think!
I long for the day when simply dumping the rain out of my shoes would solve all my worries!
