Remarkable

Main Entry: re·mark·able
Pronunciation: ri-'mär-k&-b&l
Function: adjective
: worthy of being or likely to be noticed especially as being uncommon or extraordinary

Lucie, cousin to The Four Crazies, started preschool for the first time this week. When picking her up after school, Lucie's teacher told my sister that Lucie is "remarkable."

Now, if that was one of my kids' teachers, she'd be saying, "He/She is remarkably _______________." (Fill in your favorite not-quite-positive adjective here).

But with Lucie, I know the teacher meant remarkable as defined at the beginning of this blog. She is extraordinary. She's beautiful and sweet and very, very smart and creative and neat and well-behaved. (She can also drive a boat, but that's probably something her preschool teacher won't get a chance to see demonstrated).

I know it must have been hard for Caroline to send Lucie into the classroom of another teacher. (After all, Caroline is the former BTITWW -- her decision to stay home is the only way I've been able to bestow the title on Jack's Mrs. J.) However, it sounds like Lucie is at the right school with the right teacher - one that recognizes all her talents.

Caroline may have chosen to stay out of the classroom, but it's obvious that she never stopped teaching. Lucie is definitely remarkable, but she gets it from my sister.

Once again, I lament that we're so far away from each other... way too far for any of that remarkableness to rub off here.