Friday, October 10, 2008

Happy Birthday, Elementary School Style

My birthday is on Sunday (there, I said it, are you happy now Laura?). I knew my co-workers would be planning something just because that's what they do. Adam's birthday was a week and a half ago so we had the lunchroom start singing to him when he walked in with his class so I knew whatever they were planning would involve the entire school.
When I got to school, I got there a few minutes early just in case, walked in carefully making sure no one was going to jump out at me or something. I was in charge of supervising the student store with some of the student council members, so I'm standing in the front of the school with my back to the office and I hear Garrett on the intercom, "Students and teachers, we have a birthday girl today so join us at the front of the school so we can sing happy birthday to Miss H!" So a large number of students and teachers came and sang to me. When I got back to my room I found this on my desk:

Adam and Garrett gave me some flowers, chocolate, and beef jerky (the post-it note says "you said you like beef" because we had a conversation at lunch one day where I mentioned that I don't like chicken but I love to eat cow). Nice things were said in the card and it started my day with a smile.
Now we just have to wait until Garrett's birthday...

2 comments:

Diane Conn said...

Happy Birthday Julie!
Aaron ate your birthday present.

Jen said...

Yeah!!! Birthdays rock!! Hope you had a good one. I'm glad that your school did some cool things for you.