Celebrating a Week of Ups & Downs

What's the saying? Life is like a roller coaster. This week has seen ups and downs...and I'm tired. I celebrate them all here today.

DOWNs...
More rain.
State testing.
End of year exhaustion. 
Allergies. 

UPs...
National Notebook Day!
Time spent with friends. 
Students falling in love with their notebooks again.  

New possibilities.
A former student who sees me in the hall and lights up. 
Two students starting to write their own book. (One of these students insisted that she hated writing at the beginning of the school year!)
That same student publishing her hundredth blog post for the year. (Now, she's on her 103rd post.)
Voxes from friends.
Moderated a great Twitter chat about Genius Hour. 
Another makerspace lesson in class this week. (I'm writing more about that soon.)

When I sit down and look at my week, I see so many positive things. I'm surrounded by good friends. Work is crazy, but good. The week ended at my new favorite place, the Michael Helene Salon. Lauren cut my hair again and I like it better the second time.

I've never felt comfortable at salons and it's rare that I return to the same one. I'm excited to have found a place where I feel comfortable and heard. She is funny and passionate about hair and so talented. 

I begin this rainy Saturday celebrating new haircuts, new possibilities, and good friends. I'm off to meet with some of these friends to make plans for the summer invitational institute for the Northern Virginia Writing Project. 

Thank you to Ruth Ayres for providing this space to share our celebrations. Please join us and share your own!