The luckiest teacher on earth!

Right now, I honestly feel that way - like I'm the luckiest teacher on Earth! Every year, at the beginning of December, I send out a note to my students' families that they need not buy me a gift for the holidays, that I'd rather, if they wished to do something, that they purchase something for the classroom - something that the students would all enjoy playing and using - like Kid K'nex pieces, floor puzzles, Ello creation things, etc. This usually works out well and we get a nice assortment of things for our room. Well, this year, one of the mom's brought in a nice gift bag and said that it was from all the families in that class. At circle time, we sat down to open the class gifts and I was brought to tears when I opened the 'big class gift' -- they bought a digital camera! A Sony Cyber-Shot -- 6.0 megapixels (my old, now broken camera was only 1.3!)!! I was simply speechless. I feel so blessed to be able to work with families who care so much! They knew that I used the camera quite a bit in the classroom and was very upset when my broke, but this was beyond generous!