Living in the Moment Today!

Today...my day started out by getting up early and getting ready like I normally do getting ready to go to school where I work as a Kindergarten Assistant Teacher. I got in the car drove to work like I do most days when I don't ride with my Mom. I arrived walked into the school to my classroom to get ready for the children to get there...as 7:20 rolled around the children started to arrive and greeted me glad to see me. I love working with Kindergarteners I always say it's an adventure and it is but I enjoy seeing there smiling faces in the morning. There sweet little personalities, quirks, even misbahving...sometimes they can drive me crazy but I do love my class of 16 little ones. Today in a Kindergarten class in Conneticut far away from mine a man came in with a gun shot 7 adults and 20 children. 20 CHILDREN! I typed that right and it breaks my heart to type it. This tragedy hits a little to close to home being that I work in a school and with Kindergarteners. As I found out about the events that occured at Sandy Hook Elementary today this afternoon I couldn't help but think about my Kindergartners. I have 16 in my class with me and the teacher whom I teach with.... today after hearing of the events and how many of those precious little ones were now no longer alive along with the adults lost...that would be all of my class and us the two teachers plus some. I know how much I enjoy being with those sweet little people in my class and I can't imagine them being gone in just a second, but in a classroom far from mine in a place that seems so picturesq a school where children are supposed to be happy and safe things beacame far different from that. It breaks my heart truely breaks my heart to think about the things that would have been for these children that now will never come to pass along with the heart break that there families are experiencing. To think about all the things children have ahead of them things like brithday's, Christmas's, Holiday's, family vacations, and other things like graduations, their drivers licenses, college, marriage, children of there own...and all the other great things they would do in there lives. These Children will not and that is what sadden's me the most. I still feel safe in my school crazy people do crazy things and I understand that it is the world we live in. I also know how the plan works in our school in case this were to happen. The title of this blog in particular is important today because of this event...WE MUST LIVE IN THE MOMENT and show those we who are important to us that we love them and care for them...whether that be friends or family. The other thing that this blog title brings up is living each day to the fullest...God does have a plan for each one of us I fully believe that...we do not know what tomorrow may hold so we should live everyday like it is a gift. Until next time...