When I think of overalls, I think back to sitting in my desk in Mrs. Pfleiderer’s third grade class (and yes I STILL remember how to spell her name correctly due to the song I made up to remember it for the test.) Third grade was so simple and doesn’t feel like it was a lifetime ago. I remember coordinating outfits with my best friend Kristin, before she moved to Arizona. Our favorite was when we would both wear our corduroy overalls (mine were white.) I always opted for my black shirt with white and purple stripes to rock underneath my sweet cord overalls.
Third grade was also a time of firsts for me. I remember acting in my first play, “Tilly the Tooth” as Sally. It was here I discovered stage fright and realized I had a major case of it. I sang in a trio for the first (and only) time for a Thanksgiving play. I also discovered how much I enjoyed writing, so much to the point that I asked for extra assignments after school (yes, I was that girl.) I remember writing stories and choosing story ideas from her mustard yellow plastic notecard storage box. My personal favorite story I wrote was, “How a Turtle Got its Shell.”