Mrs. Cooper,

Thank you for always being patient with me, and with the staff. I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to yell at the staff for not listening to directions, curse them for not meeting deadlines, and kick them out completely for skipping class to go to Chick-Fil-A. Thank you for listening to me vent about college, relationships, other teachers, drama with friends, and for always giving me advice. Thanks for calling me out of class to hang out with you when I was stressed out and needed a mental break. Thanks for calling me out of class for no reason except that you wanted some company during your planning period. Thanks for letting the yearbook girls eat lunch with you in the yearbook room instead of in the cafeteria (and for heating up our food in the teacher’s lounge).

Thanks for making us laugh hysterically at your stories about your daughters, husband, and just life in general. Thanks for always being down to try out our crazy ideas, like when we decided the feng shui of the room was off and needed to be rearranged. Thanks for making our 7 a.m. meetings more bearable by bringing us Panera and your sense of humor. Thanks for making every little thing in our lives seem important, from acing a test, to being on prom court, to getting into college. Thanks for the phone calls that started out as yearbook business, but ended with causal conversation and lots of laughs. Thanks for always understanding and cutting me slack when I was burnt out and on the verge of a breakdown.

Thanks for letting us take ugly selfies on your phone and for sometimes joining in with us. Thanks for putting up with all of the chaos, stress, and difficulty of being a new adviser and for sticking with us all the way through, even when all of us thought we couldn’t do it. Thank you for always being there for me, whether it was during class, after school, or on a weekend.

Despite only having you as a teacher for a year, you impacted my life as well as the rest of the staff in the most positive way. Thank you for being so dedicated to not just me, but all of your students. You enthusiasm towards your job and students never went unnoticed. Thank you for being my teacher, adviser, "school mom," and most importantly my friend. I honestly don’t think I could have survived senior year without your constant encouragement and support.

As if I haven’t said it enough already, thank you.

-Logan