"Ms. Becky your hair feels like a bunny." Will you be my best friend?" "Can I come stay at your house?" "You wanna come over and play video games, my mom will cook us dinner?"Oh how I love kids. Those quotes are from kids at the elementary school in our neighborhood Every Wednesday (and other days if possible) I go there to hang out/tutor a few kids. I am also a lunch buddy to a precious little 7 year old girl named Queen. She is quite possibly the cutest and funniest kid I know. I love spending time with her and the other kids in her class.
I went there today to have lunch with Queen and as I walked in the front doors as Queen and her class were lining up in the hall to go in the cafeteria and when they all saw me they started screaming, MS. BECKY!!!!!! and about 15 kids flocked to me hugging me and touching my hair and begging me to sit next to them. They all know that when I come there I sit next to Queen but they always fight over who is going to sit in the other seat next to me. I wore my hair straight today (which is a rare occasion) and this one lil girl kept touching it and she was the one who said it felt like a bunny. Such funny kids!
Life has been insane lately and I have been feeling pretty low and depressed but going to the school today really helped me a lot. I can't help but love all those kids and being around them and receiving all the 50+ hugs I get every time I'm there puts a smile on my face. Today we talked alot about mommy and daddys and they were asking me questions about my parents and if they had the same last name as I did and if I have more than one daddy and if I ever got hit if I did something wrong-it just broke my heart. I usually always end up having really good and sometimes intense converstations with them, especially with Queen. I walked her back to her classroom after lunch and she stopped in the middle of the hall and hugged me for a few minutes and then looked up at me and said, "I love you Becky. You are my best friend." I definitely started crying (Im an emotional mess lately) and just hugged her some more. Hugging is such a beautiful thing, I think that each person should give/recieve at least 5 hugs a day-it just makes you feel so loveable and fantastic so go hug someone right now!!! (ps that's Queen in the pic!)
