Perfect Imperfection

There are days that my job is a little challenging.  So, just like the rest of you sometimes I go home and think…I really want to do this right?  But then I’ll have a day that makes the hard ones worth it.  Case in point:  the other day I was working in one of the Autism units and I was teaching a lesson about sharing.  I was reading the kids a story about sharing when all the sudden I hear one of the kids start to belt out a song.  My initial reaction was to be annoyed that one of these little guys was interrupting my perfectly constructed lesson but then I tuned into what he was singing.  He was belting out his very own love ballad……to me!  I can’t remember all the words but the ones he kept repeating were, “I love Mrs. Johnson!”  How cute is that!  He finally stopped singing and looked at me and said, “I love you Mrs. Johnson”.  It really doesn’t get any better than that!