Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. It’s been a messy week. Big feelings. Lots of sad. Even more mad. We didn’t even manage to get a family Christmas photo. When we’ve had moments of calm and even happiness, I haven’t wanted…
Visit Ruth Ayres Writes to share in the weekly celebration. Today I celebrate the kid who won’t. You know the kid I mean. He (in my classroom, it was almost always a he) slouches in the back row, makes wisecracks that you just miss being able to hear even though everyone else in the room…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. Cloudy days for a road trip. Eavesdropping on conversations in coffee shops. Stacks upon stacks of new books to browse at The Tattered Cover. Books I already knew I wanted and books I met…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. 1. We did something fun! Doing new stuff, even when it’s stuff that every other kid in the world would find super fun, is really hard for my son. We try not to push…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this reminder to reflect on the positives of my week. 1. I brought another pile of books to Maggie’s classroom, did my best booktalking song-and-dance, and had the satisfaction of seeing many books connect with kids. How I love getting books into kids’ hands!…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration at her blog. I appreciate this reminder to reflect on the positives of my week. 1. My week kicked off with the ALA Youth Media Awards announcements, which I watched live. I was so excited that librarians heeded the call of #weneeddiversebooks and recognized the power they have in…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to look for the positives in my week. Although I try to participate in the Celebrate meme every week, I’m not sure that I always take the lesson of celebration to heart. I felt overwhelmed this week–overwhelmed by the daunting work of…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. I had big plans involving lots of reading, writing, yoga, and course design for my final week of winter break, but that’s not what the week ended up looking like. I don’t think I…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to look for the positives in my week. I have been to three libraries, one bookstore, and all over Amazon in the past week in an effort to acquire the books I need to finish off my 2014 reading goals. My TBR…
Ruth Ayres hosts a weekly celebration on her blog. I appreciate this invitation to reflect on the positives of my week. 1. Insight. I had an important insight about my son’s recent behavior and was able to find the right words to articulate it to him. He was furious for about 10 minutes and then came to…
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