days like this make it so worth it to teach primary

Whitney and I team teach CTR 4-CTR 7. We have about half the primary in our class. It actually isn't as bad as it sounds--our primary is pretty small. We usually end up with about 10-12 kids in our class each week. In theory, this should be a piece of cake with 2 very capable ladies working together, except when several of the kids are (for the lack of a better term) "problem children".

Sunday is generally the day that wears me out the most and often makes me question why the heck we wanted to have children of our own in the first place. Yeah, yeah I know..."it's different when they're your own"...whatever.

After returning back to class from taking a "problem child" out into the hall for the second time (frustrating!), one of the cutest kids in our class dug into his pocket and handed me this....

A real live flower...a real live squished flower...but still a flower. It just warmed the cockles of my heart--whatever cockles are. It made it even more cute that he saved it...in his pocket.