I have an aunt, and her name is Aunt Suzanne. She is my dad's sister. She lives in Katy (and no, I will not tell you where). She used to be a school teacher. Because she has found it hard to stay away from those little hooligans, she spends time at the local elementary school helping various classes with their writing skillzzz every now and then.

Aunt Suzanne has always been a big advocate and supporter of my writing. I remember when I was in 5th grade she was asking me about the things I was learning about writing. So I shared with her the rules and formulas I had been given to write my thoughts and turn them into papers. After being flabbergasted at the thought of formulated writing, she told me that I should tell my teacher that writing is creative and that these rules were really doing nothing but restricting me as a writer..............or something like that. So I raised my hand in my 5th grade writing class, expecting my teacher to be proud of my revelation, and after spatting out my 2 cents, was quickly told to, in other words, stick that information where the sun don't shine. Of course she said it nicely, but in a really stressed out tone because it was Christian school. ((I don't think Aunt Suzanne meant for me to do any of that in the middle of a lesson, and in front of the entire class.....my bad))

Anywho, Suzanne shared with me a while ago that she had been reading some of my blog posts to her minions to stress the idea that you can write about ANYTHING, because her niece (me) writes about EVERYTHING! She also promised her classy-class that I would be making an appearance in their writing class before the year was up. Sooooooo.....Last Monday I went to elementary school and hung out with the 4th graders :) My most "famous" one for them was the one I wrote about my pink pillow...you can find it here. So we brought up the pillow as a little gimmick

They were cute, and asked all sorts of nutzo questions. Most of which pertained to how one goes about commenting on a blog, how you make them private, if it's anything like facebook, and etc. Haha, just kidding, they did ask those funny questions, but a lot of them had some insightful questions too. Like how you write about personal things without revealing more than you want to...How to choose what to write about......If I journal....things like that. I was pretty impressed with the little inquisitive 4th graders! 

They made me feel pretty cool for the hour I was there, so I'm glad Aunt Suzanne signed me up :) Dear Aunt Suzanne, Thanks for always being one of my biggest fans!

Nothin but love, 

Bethany