**Let's talk life**

                  So they say a dog is a man’s best friend, and I couldn’t agree more.   This past week I was reminded of just how important my two dogs are to me and my family. My blue heeler, Piper, and her mischievous sidekick, Daisy, our yorkie, decided to escape the comfort of their backyard. Little did they know what havoc this little adventure would cause. Our family went into overdrive; posting on Facebook, hanging and handing out flyers, and searching for our two fur babies.                   After two days, when our morale was low, mom received a call that Piper had been found, but was injured. She had been hit by a vehicle and suffered a broken back leg. I can’t begin to tell you the emotion involved in receiving that call and picking up one of our doggies. We not only had one of our family members back home, but we knew the area in which to look for the other one. Our search widened over the coming days, but to no avail, until we received that dreadful phone call last Fr

Remember the little boy that destroyed the classroom a few weeks ago that I wrote about? Well, today was extremely exciting and reassuring to me that I can do this career called teaching. My mentor teacher was absent, so we had a redirection teacher as our substitute. This happened to be the same lady who has been working with the child I discussed earlier. Everything was proceeding along as normal, when   the principal entered and asked if the little boy could come join us. Of course, I immediately answered yes because no child should be pulled out from the classroom thereby preventing them from learning. Since the redirection teacher was working with the whole class, I took this situation to be the perfect opportunity to finally get my chance to start working with him. I have been dying to do so all semester. As the child and I were sitting at his table, working on his writing and following the teacher’s instructions, he never got up or lost focus. We stayed completely on task and d