Ms. Louise

The kids' first toddler teacher, Ms. Louise retired this week. Ms. Louise was their first teacher and the first person, other than our family, that we trusted Olivia and TJ with. She and Ms. Kim made us feel so comfortable from day one. We will forever be grateful to them for being such wonderful passionate, caring teachers for the kids. One thing that I will always remember is that Ms. Louise would send the kids birthday cards in the mail addressed to them. This wouldn't be a big deal except their birthday is right after Christmas when everyone is on a 2 week vacation from school so it was extra special that she remembered their birthdays and went above and beyond to make sure that she celebrated with them even though they were not in school. Even though the kids are no longer in the toddler room, we will miss Ms. Louise dearly. As a token of our appreciation we decided to make Ms. Louise a little something so that she will always remember us. We are usually not the crafting sort of family but we did our best.

Here is Terry helping to iron on the decorations onto the reusable grocery bag.

The kids were super excited to do a craft. I guess this means I should do this sort of thing more often.

Here are the kids decorating the bag...

The finished product.

We love you, Ms. Louise (and Ms. Newton)!!!!