Queen Jen's Gems

 Throughout my days, I hear a lot of questions being asked. My students love to ask questions in my classroom. Some love to ask them more than others 💜! Sometimes I know the answers to the questions and sometimes I don't know the answers. When I don't know the answers, I either go search and look it up or I ask someone who does know. Now, I have heard many different types of questions that my students like to ask. Some are easy answers while others are more involved. There's one particular type of question they LOVE to ask that starts with two words. Can you guess it?! Hint: Adults like to start their questions off with these two words also 😊. Are you ready?! It's the famous "What if?" We like to think or ask aloud, "What if this happened or didn't happen?". "What if people knew this or didn't know this?" In thinking back to my classroom for a minute, I heard a lot of "what if" questions in my Reading class as we were re...

 Have you ever thought about what you would say to a younger version of you? I think about it a lot, especially since I teach youth. Have you ever looked back at choices you made and wonder what was I thinking? When I look back at a younger version of me, I see that things I thought were SO important back then are not so important now. I look back at wrong choices I made and think that wasn't so smart. I look back and think why did I value people's opinions so much. My younger me made some good choices and some bad choices. I had wrong attitudes, wrong thoughts/mindsets, wrong friendships/relationships, said wrong things and had wrong values. On the other hand, there were good things that happened, good people I connected to, good teaching from my Mom and Dad, and good attitudes I learned to develop. I'm so grateful 💜!! I learned living for God had to be important and not to worry about what people said because I was a Christian and dared to be different. I'm so thankf...