Today I Teach Once Again!

It's been a long time in coming.

Candle making classes at a Lancaster middle school.

All of the paperwork and background checks were nearly 

enough to make me say just to forget it.

It seemed that the list just kept getting longer and longer

in a time of my life and business that I was swamped

and really didn't have the time to give.

But, the desire to get in front of students again kept 

me going forward.

I just LOVE those eyes looking curiously.

It is such a rush to have them hanging on your words

for the next bit of new information

(or crazy thing that you might do).

It is definitely in my favor that I am not teaching 

a math class.

Mostly because I'm horrible at math so I wouldn't 

be excited to teach that subject.....

but also because everyone knows that candle 

making has to be more interesting and I have a better 

chance of keeping the attention of students who have

just set through an entire day of school.

This is an after school program run by one of 

my fundraiser coordinators.

Today's preps will involve packing up my marshmallow 

making mold.  They are going to make marshmallows.

I figure I hate to pop those little shaped pieces of wax out

of the hard rubber mold but it will be all new and different 

for them......

so each class will make a mold full of marshmallows.

Yee-haw....that's a lot of marshmallows that I don't have to make.

Tee-hee.

We will talk about candle basics and play around with 

the equipment, talk about safety and get a list of 

ingredients made for our next class ...

in about a month.... when they will actually make

a candle to take home.

Oh Yeah!  

The adrenaline is running.

Look out Middle Schoolers.....

The Candle Lady 

is 

coming!