Celebrate

Ruth sends a weekly invitation to celebrate. A sweet invitation. One that has enriched my life each time I share my little celebrations and read what others share.
The writing isn't always easy.
"This is what I will write about," flashes through my head many times during the week, sparking phrases and sentences I'm determined to record later, yet hardly ever do. (I know, I know, I know I should daily write in a journal - a habit I have failed to keep.)
Saturday arrives and the week is left behind a shut door, closed after work days. Trying to peek back through a keyhole, the vision is a bit blurred, everything seems distant and miniature.
But I want to hold on to the good that happened.
The days were packed with little scenes, tied with thoughts and labelled with emotions. Gifts of memorable moments.
I am ready to write, then worry how to write so it wouldn't sound as bragging, wouldn't be blindingly self-centered, wouldn't scream "Look at me! Look at my life!"
I can't take myself out of the story. After all it is my story that I am recording. What I would like to figure out is how to best write in a way that the readers would know that I am thinking about them, they matter and they can find themselves in my words. Something I am working on.
What can I celebrate and share from this week that would be useful to others?

• If you get to go on a field trip to a back stage of a theater and later see a ballet performance during a school day, even if it means that you won't have time to plan or take a tea break, even when you have been to back stage twice before and seen the same children ballet three times, still go, it is so worth to see the magic. 
• Appreciate when a parent finally admits that what you have been trying to tell them for two years is true, they seek expert help and the student will finally get so needed support. 
• When a school offers a free yoga class, say yes, and go, give it a try. It doesn't matter that maybe you can't completely follow all moves or that occasionally you may feel funny or tired. It will get easier. Your health will benefit from this.
• Feel guilt free when you give time for your students to create friendship cards for the 14th of February, an activity that may not connect to any units of study. Better join this activity and make some cards yourself without worrying about your artistic talents. 
• Buy some Shrove Tuesday buns (soft yeast dough buns, spiced with some cardamon, filled with jam inside, topped with whipped cream, sometimes drizzled with melted chocolate and powdered sugar) on a Friday long before the actual Shrove Tuesday arrives. Buy them especially when you know that your sister has tasted many buns in various places and recommends the best ones for you. 
• Enjoy very minute of an Estonian (or any other) Culture Day with workshops for kids and a folk dance and violin concert. Be a risk taker and join a folk dance when invited. It is a wonderful way to finish a week and start a winter break.

I hope your week held some beautiful gifts and you are ready to share these with others.

A miniature setting of a ballet Modigliani. It was interesting to see the setting of a ballet i had seen last month.