Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. - Charles Reade

My heart was smiling today when I put down my pen at the end of my last exam of the year!

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. - Bern Williams

After graduating in April, I will no longer be able to work at my part-time job since it's for students.  I've worked at the same place for four years now, and have become really attached to the people I work with, so leaving will be difficult.  I've decided that I want to thank each of the classes by buying them a book (or in some cases, books), but it was a bit hard to decide what to get the toddler and junior rooms.  Today, while wandering around the book store, the idea finally came to me: Curious George!  My heart was smiling today while I was looking through the Curious George section and picked out two of my favourite Curious George soft covers and my favourite Curious George hard book.  It'll be nice to share with the children one of my favourite characters in literature.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. - Author Unknown

I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I love reading.  There's nothing like a good book to get lost in, to temporarily put reality on hold while I read about another world.  Last weekend I bought a book that I was waiting to come out in soft cover, and have been loving it ever since.  My heart was smiling this morning while I was reading Jasper Ffordes "Shades of Grey" in bed with my cat curled up beside me.