First off this teacher is SUPER sweet and really great with the kids'. Secondly, she was so kind to do the conference over the phone since the car is down. She called and said Hellie is doing great! She is a joy to have in class, is learning and behaving well, always is one of the first to raise her hand to share out of her daily journal, and is such the little reader. They are supposed to have a reading fluency of 60 wpm by the end of the year and she is already at 30 wpm WOO HOO! I told her we read her books brought home from school with her doing the reading. We are frequent visitors to the public library and that her older sister, herself, and I are currently reading the Little House books which she was so excited to hear. She said now she understands why she is such a great reader and has such a wonderful vocabulary. I am so proud of her and how well she is doing!!!! So that is my brag for today. We got the house squared away, the laundry folded and put away, and Katie left to go meet the girls' and ride with our friends for youth group. We are going to watch one of our cop dramas and have adult dinner night. Hoping to get in another one or two of my book on c.d. but not much else planned for this evening.