Thanks for all the support

Thanks to each of you, and I hope you know who you are, for helping me become the person that I am today. I have been very blessed with friendships (old and new) and new accomplishments/ successes. I do not take any of that or those people for granted. I know that it is through their friendships, support and some amazing teachers and the God given talent that I am where I am today. I know that God gave me the talent, friendships gave me encouragement, and my family gave me everything I ever needed and more. So with each award I receive I try to stay humble and true to myself and family because I know that none of this would be possible without their support. Sometimes I take you and all that you have done for me for granted; please accept my humble apologies. I try to make it known that without you I wouldn't be who I am today.

However I know that there is one person to whom I wish I could share my blessings and successes with... Dad. It is so funny the minute I won my teaching award he was the first person that I wanted to call and then it hit me, like a huge hit in my stomach, that I can't call him. Saturday the 15th will mark the 4th anniversary of his death. I pray that I made him proud! I know he shares the joy with me in spirit but I wish so badly that he was here to share. He always knew that I would be an art teacher, way before I did, and told me that I would be a good one. But I continued to shrug him off for years. Now that I am an art teacher I pray that I made him proud.

Enough of this, it has made me cry.
anyway, thanks to all of you who helped me along the way.

To all the old friends that I haven't seen in forever

Hello to all my old buddies from high school; I am so glad that I got to see each and every one of you. It has been so long yet when we got together at the reunion, besides some of you having kids, little has changed. It was as if we had never been a part.
I just want to say that I hope that we can stay more in touch.
It was great seeing you all...