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This is my favorite children's book. I cry every time I read it. I love getting the same reaction form reading to children. It lets me know that they get it. I remember one year I had a little girl start crying and give me the biggest hug. When her mom picked her up that day she ran up to her, cried and told her "I'll love you forever" I am sitting here tearing up just looking at the picture. I had to explain to the mom what it was about and she too started to cry. 

These are my brothers, sister and myself taken two years age. I am the runt. I even think I was standing on my toes to make me taller. I am not a picture person so they are really rare.

It has never failed that every  year there is a child in your classroom that touches your heart like no other. This year I had a little boy that just loved me to death and the feeling was mutual. My Big D as I called him would do anything to make me happy. On our last day together, he tried to drag me to his car when his mom came to pick him up. He cried all the way home. It made me one of the happiest people to get a promotion to the school he was going to. I was able to call him and tell him that he was still going to see me when he goes back to school. His mom says that she had to mark off days on a calendar for school to start because he knows that he will see me again. Mom said that when we got off the phone he was running around the house screaming "I get Ms. Stacey!" Things like this make my whole year worth it.


What fuels my passion for early childhood are those light bulb moments. you know the ones when a child just gets it. They pedal on the tricycle, they build a structure with different size blocks, they go pee in the potty for the first time. Those moments when you give a mom a card and a hug for getting her GED, when you let a mom cry one your shoulder after losing her parent. Those times when a child who has not been in your classroom for 3 years still calls you and sings Happy Birthday. That is why I do what I do!!!