Precious Precious!!

Over the past few weeks, I have absolutely fallen in love with some of the kids that I work with once a week. Both of my children come from hard family situations, and I love that I get to sit with them and work with them one-on-one.

I was kinda dreading going into the elementary today because I didn't want to say goodbye to my children. Today we spent a little bit more time talking, I spent a few extra seconds listening and asked a few more questions about their break. PRECIOUS! I was working with my little first grader named Lane and we were reading a fairytale like book. He has progressed SO much this semester but can't move into the next level of books till next semester, and so he has read through all of the "boy" books in his level and has had to start on the "girl" books. So, we were reading a fairytale and once we finished it I was asking him about fairytales and movies that he liked with fairytales in them. We were talking about Disney movies, and he was surprised that I knew Disney movies and had a favorite. He was literally shocked. When I told him that I had been listening to Beauty and the Beast this morning, he said this to me --"Miss Kylie, you can't like Beauty and the Beast. That's a kids movie. You're old. You have to like grown up movies and things like that." He went on to tell me how I needed to like the news and Dateline. It was so cute!!

When it was time to leave, my little boy started crying. He was like "but Miss Kylie. You can't leave and never come back! Who else is going to read with me? If you leave I won't ever be able to go to second grade. Then I'll be 82 years old and still in first grade. You CAN'T leave!" I was so heartbroken. I felt horrible leaving him!! I told him I would have to get my schedule for next semester and try and figure something out. Such sweet kids!!! Gosh. They're so precious.

It makes me so mad because they tell me that nobody else reads with them, and their parents won't sit and read with them. I want to bring them home with me and just read with them all afternoon, because they LOVE when somebody will sit there and listen to them, and I love being able to. I love the progress that he made in one semester. I love the way that he gets a huge smile when he walks in. I love that he wants to learn and that he loves to read if somebody will sit with him. LOVE it!! Such precious kids!!! They made my morning!!