Houston A.W. Knight: Happy New Year!!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Happy New Year!!

**throws confetti**

**blows horn**

Oh,sorry..are you still hung over?

I’ll try to be quiet

Ok,I'm a day late and a dollar short..lol

Did you make any New Years Resolutions?

5 comments:

Blodeuedd said...: HAPPY NEW YEAR :D

Well, my resolution is to try not to be such an utter bitch when I got pms ;); January 2, 2012 7:50 AM
elaing8 said...: LOL Blodeuedd. i like your resolution.I think I should try that one too.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year.; January 3, 2012 11:32 AM
Oscar said...: HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAWK! I gave up making resolutions - never kept any.; January 3, 2012 11:40 AM
A man called Valance said...: Happy New Year, Elaine.

Psst, Oscar! I know the name at the foot of each post ain't the first thing you look at, but make sure it's the last one. Elaine wrote this post.; January 3, 2012 12:20 PM
Houston A.W. Knight said...: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

Great post Elaing!!!! I hope you had a great NY celebration! (((HUGS)))

Blodeuedd...oh that's an easy one...each day you get out of bed, just put a smile on your face and you can't be in a grump of a mood...try it. ;-)

Oscar!! (big hugs) Happy New Year to you too! LOL...never kept a one? Hummmm.

Valance! Happy New year Cowboy! Thanks for pointing out who writes Monday posts...I write Wednesdays post and Cicle writes a post every third Wednesday...for anyone who wants to know! But I horn in on both girls post to chat when I find a minute here and there!; January 3, 2012 12:56 PM

Something to REMEMBER:

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?' She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.' They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said. 'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.' And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to show you.' At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned. Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.' By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Teacher of the Year for the state of Arkansas in 2006. Please consider telling others about this message...tell them to come here to read and ponder then pass along, so none of us will ever forget that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by U. S. Veterans.

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