My Authentic (10 year old) Self

I am currently (trying to) read the daily devotions book Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach.  This has been in my to read pile forever and I have started it before.  I'm not matching the day's reading with the date.  I just read an entry when I can.

Today's entry was about thinking back when you were 10 years old.  That is an age where you are yourself.  This is kind of a hard one.  Can I really remember what I was like at 10 years old?

Things I know/remember:

• I was in 5th grade
• 1st year at the Middle School
• My brother, Brett, graduated that year
• My sister-in-law, Joanne, was introduced to the family that year at Brett's graduation party.  I was the first one of the family she met since I went with Vincent to pick her up. :)
• I know I did well in school & remember quiet a bit (5th grade).
• Favorite/teachers I remember:  Mrs. Crowe, Mr. Quakenbush, Mrs Bellinotti, Mr. LaBarron, Mrs. Muraski, Mrs. Wigger.
• I was in a reading/book report class that I really enjoyed (only select students got to be in this).
• This was my first year in band playing clarinet.
• I don't remember the second half of being 10/6th grade.  I hated school that year and didn't go much.  One of my schoolmates posted a picture of her 6th grade homeroom on facebook - I was in the picture and didn't even remember being in that homeroom.
• I think this was around the time I knew I wanted to work in administrative.  I'm pretty sure by this time in my life, I was playing with my aunt's typewriter and helping her with churck administrative stuff.
• My Aunt Helen picked me up almost everyday from school in her red Ford Comet, "Strawberry" (which I named).

I have a bunch of my school stuff that I eventually want to make a scrapbook out of.  Maybe once I go through my stuff, I'll remember things.

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