Blessing+Book+Continued

It is Friday morning, June 6 - upper school graduation - saw many familiar faces in the crowd (Christian among them) and it made me think about our Fri morning tradition of Blessing Book. So here is a page where we can continue to share all that we appreciate and all that is positive in our lives throughout the summer and beyond if we choose. I'll start and you all feel free to add on.

I am grateful for all the students whose lives I have had the honor of glimpsing as they pass through 6th grade and go on to become amazing young adults. Today I watched as many former students received awards and much praise for the example they have set in upper school and the lives they have already changed. Rest assured ladies you all have already affected my life in a very positive way. I am so grateful for such a sweet and supportive advisory during this year - you all were the best group of ladies I could ever have asked for in a year that proved both challenging and extraordinarily rewarding. God bless! and for air conditioning too :)

Hey, hope your summer started off as good as mine! My dad, sister and I were going to go play tennis this morning, but it was kind of smoky. More than kind of. Anyway, I am soooooo thankful for fresh air that lets us do things whenever we want without worrying about asthma and other issues. Can't wait to see your adventures! ~Christina~

My summer has been super busy, between tennis, the orthodontist, haircuts and getting together with friends from both St. Catherine's and Collegiate. I've hardly had any room to breathe! I love it! Here is the proof: it is 7:03 pm. on Friday, June sixth, I just arrived at Nana's (my mom's mom) house in New Canaan, Conecticut literally five minutes ago, ending a traveling spree that started at 12:30. And here I am typing on this wiki! Nana is not home yet. I am thankful for REST AND DOWN TIME, friends, and Barns&Noble. I am also thankful for books (I think I have gone through 15 so far) and 1000 piece puzzles (I am half way through my second), the things that have kept me ocpuied through that (all important) REST AND DOWN TIME. Nana is home now. Have a great summer!!! ~Alexandra~

Hey! I got home from volunteering at my little sister (KASEY, who is four)'s pre-school camp about 3 hours ago.i have been helping the teachers from my old pre-school with just about anything that 2-5 year olds do. this includes going to the bathroom, making pictures, using manners, singing (off- key, on my part) and a TON of other stuff. It SUPER tireing, but it's all worth it at the end of the day when they look up at you with the big grin and say, " thank you! see you tomorrow!" That warm, fuzzy feeling you get hugging them good-bye is the reason i have been getting up every day since June 2 at 7:30 am. The little kids are so cute! ~Erin~ have a great summer! c u in august!

i just got back from Nags Head beach and i had so much fun! the only bad thing was that there were a ton of dead jelly fish washed up on the beachso i never really went swimming in the ocean but i spend a ton of time in the pool and i didn't get sunburned at all, that's a first! when i got back from the beach it was really hot outside so my mom decided that we should take our pet rabbit out of his outdoor hutch. we put him in a cat carrier that was in our back hall by the litter box. HAHAHA! then we thought that he needed more room so we put him in our garage. he had this little bunny fence that he would hop around in he was soooooooooooooo cute! we also fed him lettuce that he ate out of my hand. when i held him we noticed that he relly needed his nails cut because they were curly! now we have moved him back in his hutch for now. I am sorry this is so long but i have had a lot of stuf happen already! everyone i hope you have a great summer!

hey ya'll! i have had a really good summer so far...but i miss our advisory! i havent had any time to talk to barely anyone from our class, and it makes me really sad! ) : i have had a great time keeping busy with my family and trips we have gone on. so far i have gone to charelston south carolina where my sister Sloane is living and working for the summer. I got sun burnt for the first time EVER because i forgot to put on sun tan lotion!!! i am so angry with myself that i forgot to!!!! its starting to hurt less and less though, which i REALLY apretiate because i am soooo not used to being burnt! tomorrow, i am going to my cousin erin's graduation in NC and am really excited to see her and the rest of my cousins. on sunday i go to camp for a (short) week-4 nights 5 days-and am really excited to go again because i have been going every year since i was going into 1st grade! after that i do a basketball camp (kind of regreting because if i wasnt doing it i would get to go to NH a week sooner and go up with my family instead of my mom's friend) at collegiate and then i go to NH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOO EXCITED FOR IT! by the way thats why this thing is so long because i dont know when im going to get on it again...but i have an excuse considering i wont be able to get to a computer for a week! so...to skip to the end i am thankful for our (old) advisory, family and trips, charelston and sun screen, my uncle ( who i saw in charelston), graduations and more family, camps and meeting new poeple, sports, and ***NH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** **(that has stars because if we were in school it would be the one i'd probably share). I miss all of ya'll a ton and hope u have a great and busy summer...i hope i see u all before school starts again (dont even want to think about that right now) oh and by the way i do know its not friday but i cant do this tomorrow so im doing it now! I PROMISE NOW IM FINISHED!!! ~ali

Hey everybody!! today is my b-day!! yea i am 13 now!!! My summer has been awesome!!! I miss all of you and cant wait to see you again!!! I hope that all of you are having a great summer!! Right now I am really thankful for pools!!! haha-Christian

SUMMER IS THE BOMB.COM i love summer!!!!!!!today i was at haleys bat mitzvah which was sweet and i got to see and hang out with all my friends that i usually dont see over the summer. also im going to basketball camp next week and the week after and the week after that cuz basketball is the best thing in the whole world!!! hope u guys are having a great summer like me and i will see u hopefully in the summer but if not when school starts. OH YEAH AND HAPPY FLAG DAY AND HAPPY BDAY KATIE!!!!

UHHHH I LOVE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! Austin gets home from alaska today which is good... NO I DONT MISS HER!!...okay random much. i LOVED haleys bat mitzvah IT WAS SOO FUNN AND I SOO MISS YA'LL!! i was sore from so much dancing, NO JOKE, and couldnt walk for like a day. then the next day it got better BUT IT STILL HURTS. so yeah i just really miss all of you guys because im really bored. and stuff like that.....i get to go to the riva tomorrow which is always funa and there was sumthin really awsome happening....... eh i guess its just not that important......so im juar hanging. this is probly one of the most pointless paragraphs ever written but WHO CARES?!?!?!?!?!? MWAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA GO NOT BEING GRADED! see you peeps sumtime in the fuuutureeeeeeee user:cougartori!!TORI!!user:cougartori      **HI!!! My summer has been so awesome so far! I am very thankful for friends (especially since one just reminded me of my password because I forgot...) I am also thankful for all of the technology we have today so we can keep up with our friends better if we cannot see them in person. am really thankful for my family and vacations. My family just took a vacation to the beach and we even took my dog! We are all glad to be home (including Bailey, my dog, because she wasn't allowed to get on any furniture while we were there!) I am NOT thankful for my parents cancelling the mail while we were gone because I still haven't gotten my report card and I am really REALLLYYY scared!!!!! But I am still having a great summer and I hope it is the same for everyone else! ~ Jane!**  :) :) :)

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">hey every1!!! so far this summer has been amazingly fantasticly superdee gruper duper GrEaT!!! i have been keeping in touch with a ton of my friends wich is really great!..haha...i am extreamly thankfull for airplanes because if they were not alive in this world then i would not be here right now in italy! haha....italy is AmAzInG so far! i am having the time of my life and i am also experiencing alot of different things than where WE live!!! i <3 italy!....im also having fun with lolly!..hehe...after italy im going 2 california to meet my amazing cuzzins! and o ya my grandfathers coming back 2! haha...ahhh sooo excited! i miss our advisory soooo much...especially all the fun partays we had over the year! ahhh soo many amazing fun times...o ya and did i mension i love our advisory more than a fat kid luvs ice cream! ha..idk where i got that from! o ya and did i also i mension I am also very super gruper thankfull 4 air conditiononing! becasue if we didnt have that ....i would probably be dead! and im also thankful 4 the pooool! haha...okay well were gonna go ExPlOrE italy now! i hope all ya'll are having a fantasticly amazing super gruper summa 2! i hope 2 see ya'll b4 summa ends but if not....THEN I WILL SEE U ALL WHEN SCHOOL STARTS!!!...yay/boo! :) :( xoxoxoxoxo <33 ttyl see ya'll in august when schooool startz! <3 meeda!

Fri 13th turned out to be very lucky and yet I missed checking in with you all. I bought my own kayak last Fri and have been in the water ever since - okay except for sleeping. NOW for Fri June 20:
I am thankful for summer (by the way today is the first day of summer - tomorrow is the summer solstice marking the exact midpoint between summer and winter) AKA the longest day of the year, so build in some extra fun :) I am also VERY thankful for all the fun memories I have of our advisory - the field trips, the long and short distance ones, and dance parties/any parties and all the times we got to just relax and read or share our thoughts. Jane I agree with you about technology b/c this way I can still hear what you all are up to and cheer you on. And no worries on the report cards,Jane, it's summer! Happy birthday Christian!!!!! Saw the J Bros on all sorts of TV shows lately - so what's the furry thing crawling across that one guy (Josh?)'s forehead? JK - I know they are your favs. So far I am also thankful for all the amazing cool days/nights we've had recently - after AC broke during heat wave this has been a blessing. Also grateful for meds that let Hardy travel without losing his "lunch" in the car ...yeah, that is a very GOOD thing. OK off to paddle on the James - let me know if I can help w/ Lolly or Bubba and the gang's travel plans - I'll take them on some rapids. Happy Summer/Friday! Ms A misses y'all!

hi, it's Jane again and I have a lot of things to be thankful for because I had a great day! first I am thankful for horses, because I had riding today and I always have fun at that! Unfortunately, my family had to go to the farmer's market then, so I couldn't go with them :( They told me that they saw alpacas there!!!! Apparentally they can win medals for color??? What does that mean anyway???? This afternoon, we went to the vegetarian festival! It was really fun; we got soy feta cheese, (which is better than it sounds) and we saw BARK there! Now we are making dinner so bye! ( we just made cheese too!) -Jane:):):) p.s.- we also saw this place called Ten Thousand Villages. They promote fair trade and everything there is hand made. They have a store near here too. We saw placemats, coasters, and hot mats made from recyled rolled up newspaper. They also had figuerines of rinos and lizards and earrings and pins made from recycled soda cans! It was really cool!

Hey guys this is Katy!!!! This has been such a fun summer except for the summer reading part. To me that is just boring. I have done absolutely nothing. My little sister Emma just dressed me up as a western bride and then took humiliating pictures of me. So now I am mad at Emma. I miss all of you guys soo much. Can't wait to see you at the begining of school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Katy-

Hey everyone!!! I have had a great summer so far!!! Guess what Camp Rock got 8.6 million views on it primere night!!! YEA!!! The Jonas Bros. did such an amazing job!!! Its the secend biggest disney channel movie ever!!!! But it got beat out ny high school musical 2 which got about 9 million viewers! too bad but i bet Camp Rock 2 will beat it!! LOL!!!I havn't got sun burned again this summer!!! Yay! And one more thing i get to see the Jonas Brothers live in second row in 51 more days!! I cant wait!! miss u guys see you soon! ~Christian~