Staff Appreciation Day

Wow, Florida Marlins win!  Whata game!  Lots of energy!  Oh ok, rain is over and the Atlanta/Cubs game is starting.

Yep, yep ... At work today, we had "Staff Appreciation Day." Man, this is sweet!  The individuals we serve stay home and all the staff come in late.  This year, we all met up at a really good teacher's store and we were each given money to spend.  After that, we went to a nice restaurant and that was followed by getting to go home early.  We have the parent's club to thank for this wonderful relaxing day.  Great for staff spirit too!  

Most the staff left the store happy.  Some opted to save their money until they could shop at a craft store.  I purchased two books and a nifty neato little sparkly green object that will hold up papers I'm typing into the computer.  

One of the books is offering advise on teaching kids with learning difficulties.  The book promises strategies and techniques to challenge and motivate struggling students. 

The other book is on "multiple intelligence" for folks in grades K-4.  This is based on work by "Gardner" who proposes that some of us may be more developed in one or more areas, but to some degree, we each have intelligence in each of seven areas.  Basically, these intelligence areas are our abilities to use words, numbers, pictures, music, bodies, friends, or with ourselves.

Dinner was great!  Everyone was in a good mood and to look at there was wood, pretty objects, and a fireplace.  Love that!  There were 12 of us all told.  We had a couple of drinks, baked (cheese) French onion soup, buttery flaky rolls, salad with shrimp, and my first magnificent Cherry something (at-the-table flamed cherries and brandy over ice cream!)  We caught some great conversations and felt tremendous gratitude! 

Hey, Cubs are ahead!