17 years and counting… That’s how long I have been exchanging St. Patrick’s Day cards with my high school math teacher.
You see, green is my favorite color. It has been for a great part of my life. It was also the favorite color of Miss Merrilee Sump. My sophomore year in high school we decided to bake cookies for class to celebrate “green day”. The tradition continued for the next two years, and once I was gone, we bagan exchanging St. Pat’s cards. Haven’t missed a year. Other than Christmas cards and St. Pat’s cards, we don’t communicate. Funny. But, she even drove through a blizzard to come to our wedding…she’s a good lady, that Merrilee. So Happy Green Day!!
Today’s Green Menu: Green eggs (and ham, of course) for breakfast, Green milk at lunchtime, and Green beans for supper
I looked for something green in my closet. But I didn’t find anything. So I’m greenless. (maybe I should write on myself with my green highlighter…)
I think it’s quite cool that you exchange cards with Ms. Sump. (I could never, ever bring myself to call her Merrilee.) She was a tough dorm counselor, but fair, I always thought. I didn’t actually have her for Math, except as an adviser for trig.
I felt bad about her stroke… where is she now?
It actually wasn’t a stroke, it was Bell’s palsy, and she recovered completely.
She’s the principal of the Lutheran school in Clarinda, Iowa now. She’s been there for probably 13 or 14 years. She’s just the same, looks the same, acts the same, hasn’t aged a minute. It’s funny.
Happy Day! That’s awesome that you still keep in touch with Sister Mc Merrilou … she looks a little like Mr. Slate.
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Good grief, I don’t send cards to dear friends and family members. I’m quite impressed!
How fun!! I always enjoyed Merrilee. She went back to the town that my Gramma and Grampa lived in (the Grampa whose birthday is today). It was nice to see her whenever we were in Clarinda.
I remember Merrilee Sump as Math teacher, and as Sex Ed teacher. “Lord of Life, Lord of Me” was the name of the class. We saw a film of some French woman actually giving birth. Ahhhh!
That’s great news! Good for her!
Ahhhhh! is right… I think they had nixed that class just one year later–WHEW!
Jeez, I don’t remember that at all!! Was that an actual semester long course? Belch! But then again, that is good use of typical Lutheran scare tatics.
It was an Interim class. I LOVED Interim. I wish we did it at my school now. I’d love to teach something for two weeks just because I thought it was interesting and have kids sign up for it just because they thought it was interesting.
Larry, from the city of Lincoln Lutheran choir’s brother is from Clarinda and Larry is going to visit him over Easter. (thanks for sharing)
she ripped, we saw it and were traumatized. I never had sex with french women after that.
Nice.
So you voluntarily signed up for the birth? or the French woman?
How on earth did my innocent St. Patrick’s Day post come to THIS?
*sigh*
Brad and Lloyd have poor manners when it comes to the delicate issue of childbirth.