Grammar, Quesadillas, and Coloring

BONUS POST from YESTERDAY:
My final project yesterday was sorting a bunch of magnetic words (those poetry-word-type things) by parts of speech - oddly enough, I enjoyed this task way too much (thanks Mrs. Gordon!). We are making a poetry activity where the kids get to write poems with magnetic words. It's going to be really awesome. Ok, that's all I wanted to say about that.
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Today I worked in the Mullins library. The Mullins library is even more crippled by lack of space and finances than the Marion library; its walls are plainer and its technology is much more limited. I'm working on making the latter a little better, and the former we worked on today, as I will explain later. After creating a cool front counter display that spelled out 'Be Creative At Your Library' and doing some inventory in the library, I took lunch. Alice and I went to Webster's Restaurant, which is definitely the best food I have had the entire time I've been in Marion or Mullins. I walked in and paid $8 for an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of deliciousness. The place was southern down to the core; it was an old historic house that had been converted into a sit-down buffet restaurant of sorts (for those from Georgetown reading this, it reminded me a lot of Lafayette if it were in a house, but with food a 1000 times better). Everything I had was amazing, and they had plates just like my Gigi has at her house - the blue ones with pretty artwork that are so distinctly southern.

When I came back from lunch, I had the enjoyable experience of setting up activities for the summer reading later in the day. Once I was done, I noticed a girl whose mother was busy playing on the computers. Cathy had to go but was reading to her earlier so I continued to read to her. We read 3 books or so, one of which was Corduroy, one of my personal favorites. She seemed to really enjoy it, and I got a great personal fulfillment over how excited she was to grab another book the minute we finished one.

My last activity in the day was an arts and crafts project with a bunch of kids from a local daycare where each student colored a tile and then all the tiles were put together in a specific order in a grid pattern. These tiles all formed the pieces of a giant version of Van Gogh's Starry Night. The kids were surprisingly artistic, and the finished mural was hung on the walls of the kids room in the library- a definite improvement to the plain whiteness of before.

At home, John Luttrell and I cooked quesadillas for everyone for dinner and then later we all watched Mulan! I forgot how much I loved that movie and also how musical and epic Disney Movies are. Lots of fun there. More fun to be had tomorrow.. hopefully..