Wednesday morning at 7:44am I walked through the front doors of J.W. Reason. I said my obligatory "hellos" and my head was racing with all the things I needed to accomplish. The Power Hour kids were in the hall, so I was trying to smile through my mask and tell them good morning, but really I was trying to get into my office and get started with my day.
As I walked by Eli, I heard him mumble something about his sister. My mind immediately went to "great he's telling me something that his sister did and now I'm going to have to call parents and this day is going to suck!" I somewhat abruptly said "What?" And at that time his sister Bella was standing next to me, too. She was looking up at me with excitement in her eyes, so then my mind went to "oh great someone did or said something to them and they want to get that person in trouble". I was annoyed and I really didn't want to start the day like this. As all of these negative thoughts were going through my head, I was clearly not allowing myself to live in the moment because what both kids were trying to telling me, with a gleam in their eyes was that BELLA ADOPTED A POLAR BEAR FOR HER BIRTHDAY! As soon as I heard these words it was like I had been snapped back into reality. They were both so excited and so was I! I took a quick second to really be present with them in their excitement. And, I was reminded that we often create our own chaos in our minds. My anticipation of something bad almost caused me to miss the adorable moment with these cute kiddos! My experience reminded me to slow down, take a step back and see the reality of each situation before jumping to any assumptions. This definitely isn't easy to do while working in an elementary school with so much coming at all of us from a 1,000 directions, but if we can begin to work on slowing our minds down and focusing on the moment, we might find that things aren't as chaotic and crazy as we make them out to be. PS---Bella's polar bear is named Barbara :)
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