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I had a great birthday yesterday.

First I went to church, where I saw the daughter of my former pastor in Catonsville, Maryland. She’s attending Concordia Irvine, and was visiting with other DCE students. I didn’t teach her when I was there, but I did teach her older brother. It was so fun to see her! I love “small world” stuff like that!

Later in the day, I watched the Super Bowl with Denis and a friend of his from work. Denis got some Filipino food from someone who does catering. He also cooked some pork belly and made the skin crispy and salty. It was so good. Mmm…

The caterer woman heard it was my birthday, so she brought me some orchids from her garden. They were gorgeous!

As an added bonus, because of company, my house is clean! Yay! I hope it stays that way for at least a little while.

I do have to mention the commercials, because that’s usually my focus during the Super Bowl. I have to say, I can’t really remember any. One of them made me laugh, but I just don’t remember it.

Happy Birthday to me! Woo hoo! I’m 56. I went looking for some fun facts about the number 56. My favorites are: there were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. And 56 in Roman numerals is LVI. It’s my Levi year! Yay!

And now, to our regularly scheduled post:

I like mornings, because they’re quiet and peaceful. On my drive to school, I see people walking, and I often think I’d like to do that myself.

Yesterday, I did it. I woke up at 6:15, and instead of going back to sleep, I put on some clothes and went for a walk.

It was dim out, but the sky was already getting light, and the sun was rising.

I only walked a little ways into my neighborhood, and then turned around and came back. I liked it. It WAS peaceful. But a little chilly. It was in the fifties, for goodness sakes!

I had lots of students say “Happy Birthday” to me yesterday, which I love. I also had a couple of students who gave me gifts. So nice. One of my gifts was a tie:

Ha! It has cats on it! I love it! I will wear it on Monday so everyone can enjoy it.

My birthday is on Sunday. Since this is the last day of school before my birthday happens, I’m wearing a Birthday Shirt today.

For Beth’s birthday, I sent her a shirt with cats on it that had her birth year. I had wondered if there was such a thing for my birth year as well. There was!

Ha! I love it!

The kids all know my birthday is coming, because one of them wrote it on the classroom calendar. I’m bringing in some treats for them, so it should be a fun day.

In History class, I watch a current events show with my kids. It’s called CNN10. At the end of each episode, the host does a couple of “shoutouts” – that is, he mentions schools and teachers that comment on the CNN10 social media accounts.

Yesterday when we got to the shoutouts, this was the school he mentioned:

Ha! Orange Lutheran High School is just down the road from my school! How cool! I don’t know the teacher he mentioned, but it was so exciting to see a sister school on the screen.