Celebrating the Small Stuff

Whoo boy, this week flew by!  I posted on my own this week in order to give Gina time to focus on her family.  They are facing hefty challenges, fighting for some much needed supports.  You can read more about their fight for fair treatment on the Gort Family Blog.

A belated happy birthday to  beautiful Eliza who turned three a little over a week ago!

My own week started on Monday with a headstand in yoga!

I've been going to yoga classes since the beginning of last summer

so it took about nine months to work up to this.

And, while this lovely lady is

doing it without support,

mine was up against a wall.

But still...

On Tuesday, we had a terrifying "violent person in the building" announcement.  The intercom instructed us to lock our classroom doors.  But the classroom that I was in didn't have a lock, and the door opened OUT.  So we improvised by stacking tables to block the door and moving boxes of books to create a barricade.

It turned out to be a false alarm but doesn't this student look fabulous

in his full jumpsuit, guarding the makeshift barricade?

And doesn't the fact that the barricade is made of books imply something wonderful about the literal power of books?  (Get it?  Literal?)

After that, I drove kids back and forth to basketball practices and rehearsals, attended parent teacher conferences, cooked endless meals, cleaned out our sunroom (beware the nasty things that hide under old couches), surprised a girlfriend for her birthday, attended parent-teacher conferences, ate mounds of spaghetti with dear, old friends and was hired to teach a workshop on writing for children at Terra Museum for American Art.  

So this week, I am grateful for handstands and books, which have the potential to 

save me in more ways than I'd ever realized.