a few weeks ago, sara sent me info about a grant i could apply for that is given by children for children, the non-profit chris works for. i had never written a grant proposal before and just kind of figured i would wing it. i spent a day working on it, explaining how desperately my poor forgotten school needs a lot of really basic resources. and i got an email today saying i got the grant for $1,500! i can ot express my excitement. i basically feel like i won a shopping spree for school. my daydreams are visions of books and books of more books - class sets of huck finn so i don't have to xerox chapters each morning before class, an entire set of dictionaries so we can do vocab in class, a classroom library full of books that kids want to read and are actually published after 1980. i am just thrilled.

i have to admit that i have skating with celebrities on in the background while typing this. it had a magnetic pull for me in its capacity to be absolutely awful. in watching though now i am kind of impressed with the celebrities' progress in 4 weeks. and i really miss ice-skating! i took lessons for three or four years when i was younger, but then balked when my instructor pushed me to start competing. every now and then i wonder what would have happened if i'd kept up with it…

anyway. after a day and a half spent in my apartment waiting for fedEx, my emotion melted away as soon as i finally got shipment of the quilts. i cried so hard as i opened the box, and the quilts are truly exquisite. this is the one i picked for myself:
'mommy, in bits and pieces'