What do you do when a person who you know drinks away most of his money comes and says his grandma just died and he needs gas money to get to Gallup so would you please buy some earrings? I always get stuck between the two problems: I don't want to help him in a bad habit of drinking and not saving - and I especially don't want to help him in a bad habit of lying. But I definitely don't want to be the one to send him away hungry or not able to get to his grandma's funeral if it really is true. So I bought the earrings. WWJD is hard to do on the fly sometimes.

Yesterday was the last day of school. It's so hard to believe that my first year of teaching is over! I was very sad to say goodbye to my class, but cleaning the classroom was very fun. Then this afternoon two 7th grade boys from school walked 4 miles so they could do some yard work for me. They really wanted to earn some spending money. And one of the boys never, ever talks (he comes from a tough home situation with alcoholic parents and he definitely has issues trusting adults) and he was comfortable enough to say a few words by the end of the afternoon. So I counted it a good day. :-)

And my gardens are planted! I have peppers and cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce and squash, alyssum and California poppies and Mexican sunflowers and moss roses and zinnias. I hope they grow. I hope I remember to water them. And I pray that God keeps the students at school fresh in my mind so I remember to water them by prayer as well. :-)