Top 100 moments of 2014

Best of 2014

1. New puppy snuggles
2. Being home when an old friend said goodbye
3. The macaroni noodle in Chicago!
4. Switching bedrooms
5. Switching closets
6. Opening presents
7. Lights at Anheuser Busch Brewery
8. Finishing a 5K hand in hand with a BFF
9. Living in an artist’s apartment
10. Catching the train with our girls.
11. Horse races
12. Chocolate scented aquarium
13. Carnival success!
14. Duke Tip
15. Awesome story telling
16. Christmas Carols
17. Karina moved to STL!
18. Snow ice cream
19. Making pottery
20. Recumbent bike
21. Academic Olympics
22. Kids Night Out and our awesome volunteers
23. Cross country
24. Mardi Gras
25. Getting thank you’s from students for not stressing them out.
26. Movie nights
27. 4th grade concert
28. Science Fair project at Queeny Park
29. NJHS Induction
30. Aunt Jan’s roast
31. Working at OES
32. Field Day
33. Flipping over in a wheely chair in front of a classroom full of “difficult” students.  Not only did NONE of them laugh, several leaped up to help me immediately.
34. Baby Jackson
35. Baby Hugo
36. Sky deck
37. Ferris Wheel from Divergent
38. Divergent movie passes
39. Dancing in the beergarten
40. Mom’s birthday
41. Father’s day at the park
42. Unexpected Christmas present
43. Glow bowling
44. Frozen yogurt goodness
45. Castlewood state park
46. Trivia night candy high
47. Special Chorus
48. Busch Stadium with Daddy
49. Oberweise
50. 7th grade trip to Science Center
51. Joe’s visit
52. Subbing in Micheala’s class
53. Teaching Samantha’s PSR class.
54. GROOT!
55. PLTW
56. On a rollercoaster that only goes up.
57. An afternoon with my mom and the Whitacres
58. Green kitchen!
59. Garden torch
60. Rock climbing
61. Basketball tournament
62. Indestructible chair
63. Throwed rolls
64. International Festival so good.
65. Hide and seek with so many friends
66. Sleepover
67. Six Flags
68. Oakley
69. Sam on the news
70. Zip line
71. Ladderball
72. South City Diner
73. Fountains on Locust
74. Grants Farm
75. Laumeire Sculpture Park
76. 1904 World’s Fair Map
77. Powder Valley Nature Center
78. Playing Sequence with the kids
79. Cards Against Humanity
80. Teaching FACS for 3 weeks
81. Carrot cake
82. Lucky laying on the picnic table
83. "Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around w/you for months after you've finished to stay near it" ~Markus Zusak
84. “The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn’t really there.” ~ Donna Tartt
85. Lab coats at the Science Center
86. Memphis and twenty twenty twenty four hours alone..... ;)
87. Hanging my peacock stained glass
88. Swings at OES
89. Homecoming
90. Warm apple pie and cold milk
91. Discovering that ice really does get rid of my headaches
92. Laser tag
93. Climbing trees
94. Glow in the dark bear
95. Watching William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with my girls.  Love Baz Luhrmann
96. Visit from the Easter Bunny
97. Mike staying home with us.
98. WKRP in Cincinnati box set
99. 2048 (High Score 10312)
100. Happy healthy and whole