Yesterday at school the boys and all of the rest of the students and staff celebrated one of their custodians becoming a U.S. citizen. All of the students and teachers gathered on the stairs (picture one of those stairwells, three stories tall, that you can stand at the bottom and see all the way up filled with students three years old all the way to 8th grade) and said the Pledge of Allegiance together while one of the Montessori students held up the flag. Then they presented her with an American flag and an apple pie (very American). I get weepy just thinking about it. It is so touching and I love that they not only acknowledged that she had earned her citizenship, but they shared it with the whole school and celebrated it, too. It was awesome to listen to the boys tell me about it
