A Throwback Thursday from 34 Years Ago!

The craziest thing just happened – one of my 3rd graders from 34 YEARS AGO just called out of the blue to thank me for something I’d almost forgotten.  

You see, a long, long time ago (in a school not very far away), I gave a 9-year old girl named Annabelle her first diary.  I wrote a little note inside the cover saying that I’d started writing a diary when I was 9 as well.  

That 9-year old little girl is now 45, and was going through some old boxes when she found that diary – and all the others she’d kept after that very first one.  A brief moment of my time so long ago led to a wonderful chance to reconnect after all these years.  

These are the moments that educators treasure!