It Was A Blue Star Kind Of Day

Brooke brings home a "communication folder" everyday and that is my way of knowing how her day went. They get a certain color star in their folder every day based on their behavior. Most days are "green days"...green means that they had a great day....so I am always VERY happy when she brings home a green. Lately, however, she has been getting color changes to yellow (which means she had an "okay" day) for talking. Everyday when she gets in the car before we even pull out of the parking lot I check her folder. I can always tell what she got before I even look because on green days she hops in and proudly exclaims "Go ahead look at my folder" and on yellow days she hops in and it is more like a "You don't have to check my folder today"....she has even "forgot" to bring her folder home on one of her yellow days!! Well yesterday I go to pick her up from school and I just knew she had a good day because yesterday was grandparents day and my wonderfully awesome dad went and ate lunch with her in the cafeteria...it was all she had talked about all week...she was so excited. So yesterday she hoped in the car and before I look in the folder or anything I ask her how lunch with grandpa went and she says "It went really good, but can you PLEASE look in my folder!!" She didn't want to talk about ANYTHING until I looked in that folder so I was excited and just knew that she got another green star.....BUT when I open the folder and look at her star it's not green at all....IT IS BLUE...blue just happens to be one star UP from green and pretty uncommon...it means that she was commended on her behavior that day. Her folder said that she got a blue star for being a very, very kind friend. She said that a little boy fell out of his chair and she ran over and helped him up and made sure that he was okay. Talk about a proud mommy moment!! She was bursting from the seams with excitement because she just knew that I was going to be SO PROUD of her....which of course I was!!! So in appreciation of my "proundness" and her BLUE STAR we went to McDonald's for ice cream...we all got an ice cream cone but she got hers dipped in chocolate, which to her was the coolest thing ever. What an awesome day to be a mama!!