My son is loving his teacher this year. Which is such a blessing. This school year was a bit of a dreaded year when it began. {the chair "before", but after sanding}

I'll give you a wee bit of history... when it was time to find a school for Jordan for kindergarten, we searched high and low for a school we felt fit us. We live in a city where we don't have to abide by catchments, meaning we can choose which school we want our children in, no matter where we live.

When we found the school we chose, Dunach Elementary, we knew it was "it". Both my husband and I attended tiny country schools, and we loved the charm of this old building (with teachers that had been there for 20 years, and students that were 3rd generation students!), and the charm of the families that attended. {my first time spray painting. Loved it!}

Sadly, in the beginning of last year, the school board voted to close our school. We were all very, very, sad. It was breaking up a very tight family...

happily though, 50 Dunach students, including our son, chose another country school, to keep the family tightness, and to join another fabulous school, and 2 of our teachers were able to transfer over with us.

Jordan got the grade 2 teacher he was supposed to anyways! And he has excelled this year!

Because of all that history, this chair came about. Mrs. M gifted me with this old teachers chair, which had come from Dunach, and allowed me to do anything I wanted to do with it...

"throw it away if you want to", she said. Ya right, Mrs M.

This was going to be a Thank You for the hard year she had, but the great year she gave Jordan.

~the colors of Dunach, Green and Gold~

Dunach was a school that was alive and loved for 119 years!

~ the school building was actually the location of Abbotsford's first city hall meeting!~

~Dunach, a school "where every child is important"~

I wanted the chair to look like bums have been sitting in it for the past 119 years

I loved Mrs M's overwhelmed reaction when I delivered it to the classroom

and I really loved how each child in the class then took a turn to sit in it!!!

and I'll never forget this day, because it was the first time Jordan admitted I embarrassed him - because the pink shirt I was wearing was too bright!! LOL!

yesterday was Mrs M's birthday!! Happy Birthday Mrs M! And thanks again for making Jordan's grade 2 year a great year!