Life at Ambleside
I am, I can, I ought, I will
From the Desk of Mrs. Flora & Mrs. Vosburg
As we are in the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, I hope you find time to slow down and see the miracle of Christmas through a child's eyes.
"Children Necessary to Christmas Joy"
"In these leveling days we like to think that everybody has quite equal opportunities in some direction; but Christmas joy, for example, is not for everyone in like measure. It is not only that those who are in need, sorrow, or any other adversity do not sit down to the Christmas feast of joy and thanksgiving; for, indeed, a Benjamin's portion (5 times as much as anyone else's) is often served to the sorrowful. But it takes the presence of children to help us to realize the idea of the Eternal Child. The Dayspring is with the children, and we think their thoughts and are glad in their joy; and every mother knows out of her own heart's fullness what the Birth at Bethlehem means.
Those of us who have not children catch echoes. We hear the wondrous story read in church, the waits chant the tale, the church-bells echo it, the years that are no more come back to us, and our hearts are meek and mild, glad and gay, loving and tender, as those of little children; but, alas, only for the little while occupied by the passing thought. Too soon the dreariness of daily living settles down upon us again, and we become a little impatient, do we not, of the Christmas demand of joyousness.
But it is not so where there are children. The old, old story has all its first freshness as we tell it to the eager listeners; as we listen to it ourselves with their vivid interest it becomes as real and fresh to us as it is to them. Hard thoughts drop away like scales from our eyes; we are young once more with the children's young life, which, we are mysteriously made aware, is the life eternal. What a mystery it is!"
Every Blessing,
Mrs. Flora & Mrs. Vosburg
Mark Your Calendar
Cookies are due. Please send 3 dozen cookies to Ambleside for events this week.
December 17th
Candlelight Practice at First Christian Church. All students dropped off at First Christian at 7:55.
December 18th
Candlelight Practice at First Christian Church. All students dropped off at First Christian at 7:55.
December 19th
Candlelight Practice at First Christian Church. All students dropped off at First Christian at 7:55.
December 19th
Candlelight at 6:00 pm at First Christian Church. All students should arrive by 5:45 pm. Students wear their Sunday Best or Christmas Attire
December 20th
Cookies and Caroling
All students dismissed at 11:00 am
December 21st- January 3rd
Christmas Break
January 10th
Fall Exams Sent Home
Kindergarten Handwork
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4th-6th Handwork
With Gratitude
Thank you to our exam scribes, Mrs. O'Donnell, Mrs. Ridge and Mrs. Johnson
Thank you Mrs. Connie Lindsey for treating our teachers all week with goodies.
Thank you Dr. Alcocer, Dr. Powell, Dr. Vosburg, Dr. Wall, Mr. Punnakal, Mr. Mulkey and Dr. Nichols for providing a delicious Christmas lunch for all Ambleside faculty. It was a lovely treat to sit down and eat together as a community.
Thank you to all the drivers and chaperones for all the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten field studied this week, we would not have been able to take students on so many experiences without your help.
Thank you Mrs. Wall for organizing cards to go home for students to create.
Thank you to all the families who have brought toys to give to the children in Mexico as a part of Blessed 2 Bless Mission.
" Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
-Helen Keller
Ambleside School of San Angelo
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Location: 511 West Harris Avenue, San Angelo, TX, USA
Phone: 325-659-1654
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