Storytime

I got a call on Monday to lead storytime today. I have a really hard time saying "no". All day yesterday, I spent trying to find something for storytime. I have never been so stressed. My heart was racing. I found a craft for a fall theme. The library had NO fall books. I tried to think of other themes but nothing came together. I called(emailed) on my good friends, Laurie & Jen, who live out of town. I told them I was in big trouble & within 10 minutes, Jen had sent me all sorts of ideas, poems, & songs. What a huge help. So I just needed books for my fall theme. Tina had 2 for me & I found 1 here. Great, I think I can do this. All the while I am thinking, "why can't I say no?" I purposely didn't sign up for this week because I had WM last night & have to go to work today. Well, I lead storytime & it went fine. We had 17 kids in my group & 13 in the younger group. It was the 1st time we have split the age groups. Good thing or we would have had 30 kids in one group. The craft we did was a handprint tree. The kids traced their hand & cut it out to make the tree trunk & branches then ripped little pieces to make leaves. It was a great craft for them & each child was very creative & did thier own tree.

I was encouraged by other moms & grandmas & I think I can do it again but next time I will say "no" if I only have 1 day to prepare.

Saying "no" is a learning process for me.

I really need to think about my F-A-L-L.(from a WM message I gave this month)