Today at the library...

Ricardo and his mother came up to the reference desk.

"Hi, Miss Hillary!" Ricardo, 5 , with the brightest smile and biggest dimples is still small enough to actually look up at me while I am sitting down. His mother explained apologetically that they had been there just to drop some books in the book drop and he insisted they come in to see if I was there. It made my day.

Later on Luis ran up. "Miss Hillary, Miss Hillary!" he ran right up behind the reference desk with big round eyes soo excited he didn't notice at first he was on the wrong side of the desk.

I decided to put my spring story time craft together out in the children's section so I could hopefully meet some more kids. Hope, 2 years old, put every single yellow pom pom (which would become little chicks) in a separate bag and wanted to do more after we finished (she did 25!) I gave her a chick to take home, but she played with it so much the googly eyes fell off. I was kneeling on the floor while attaching some double sided tape to get them to stick again, when Hope came up next to me, laid one hand gently on my wrist and put the other arm across my shoulders.

These are the days that make the OTHER days when you have to tell smelly people to leave worth it.

Keep your fingers crossed that I'll be able to keep my job. Today I learned that I am the most recently hired librarian at LAPL and they are starting layoffs. By hire date. I'm hoping for some sort of miraculous recovery of funds for the city, but it sounds like the library will be hit soon.