Slice of Life: Celebrate This Week

A few years ago, I stopped blogging. I am not exactly sure why that happened.

Part of my giving up blogging had to do with the idea that I was just not enough. Most of my blog posts are written in one draft and most of my content is not earth shattering. I began to feel like an imposter and let the perfectionist in me determine my path. My inner perfectionist is not very good at advice. I am glad I have silenced her for now.

The three link-up posts I wrote each week really did help me to connect with amazing communities and have a purpose for writing. Two of those communities are still going strong and I am so happy to connect again with the It’s Monday, What Are you Reading? group and this Slice of Life community.

The link-up that had the most profound effect on my mindset and my resilience in hard times was the Celebrate This Week! link up that was hosted by Ruth Ayres. I was quite bummed to find that this is not still an active link-up.

Although I can’t link up to the community, I can still celebrate and share it here. šŸ˜ƒ My celebrations for the week:

  1. My husband and I happened upon some live music yesterday when we ventured out. The Oxley’s are a local band and their music was really nice. It had a folksy vibe and just gave such a nice ambience to our date night.
  2. We have a good start on plans for how we will collect Chromebooks at the end of the school year. We still don’t know whether we will be going hybrid in April or whether we will end the school year completely virtual. Either way, we came up with some solid preliminary plans.
  3. I got to attend a virtual conference this week. My mind is reeling with actionable ideas for ways to continue to develop our program at my school. There was a mix of sessions that really helped me to envision the direction I would like to help our school go next year.
  4. I have written a slice for every day in March so far.
  5. My surprise box from Erin Condren came today and I have some new stationary to play with
  6. My mom is selling her condo and we are able to get some hand-me-down furniture from her that is pretty new and very nice…and a digital piano that I will enjoy starting to play again.
  7. The sun was shining almost every day this week and we have had temperatures in the 50s (Fahrenheit). Spring is on its way!

What do you have to celebrate this week? I would love to hear your celebrations in the comments.

This post is a part of the 14th annual Slice of Life Story Challenge. After a few years away, I am challenging myself to write every day in March this year, along with an amazing community of other bloggers. You can find our writing linked up on the Two Writing Teachers blog.

Author: Andrea

I am an instructional technology coach in a middle school in Milwaukee, WI. I have been teaching for over 20 years in many grade levels ranging from first through eighth grade. I am a lifelong book nerd.

5 thoughts on “Slice of Life: Celebrate This Week”

  1. I love your post and actually went to it because you had the teaser about celebrating this week. Like you, I so enjoyed (and almost relied on) Ruth’s weekly celebrate this week link up. Thank you for sharing your highlights.

  2. Welcome back to the blogging community! šŸ™‚ Good for you for not letting your inner perfectionist win! (It’s so hard, isn’t it?) It was fun to read about your celebrations. One thing I’m celebrating is that my class culminated a research project with a debate. They were really excited about it, I was able to structure it in a way that they could all be successful and it went smoothly, and ice-cream-on-the-cake, my principal showed up to watch it and said all sorts of positive things about it. It’s nice when teaching goes well, especially this year.

  3. I loved the celebration linkup too. It gave me a reason to be thankful for those small things. You have many things to celebrate – I especially like the 50 degree temps! Come on Spring!!
    Ruth has started a new one – SOS Sharing Our Stories. Consider this your invite! šŸ™‚ https://sharingourstoriesmagic.com/

    1. Thank you. Iā€™m in the FB group and lurking right now. Iā€™m sure I will link up soon. The new invite to write a slice might be the perfect one to start with šŸ˜Š

  4. Thank you for linking IMWAYR — I had never heard of it but I think I may try it out now that I know about it. I could relate to your slice — I’ve had trouble being consistent with my blogging practice as well. Perhaps this will help!

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