A Long Week

With New Year's Day being on a Thursday we returned to school on Wednesday. You would think that a three day work week would be a piece of cake but boy was I glad to finally get to this weekend. Going back to work after a break is always an adjustment.
Yesterday was a very rainy day and the perfect day to reconnect with three of my friends for breakfast. We met at a restaurant in town, The Mad Hatter, that had moved from a very small location that always had a very long wait to a much larger location. Fortunately, our wait for this location was only about fifteen minutes. Breakfast was very good but even better was the chance to catch up with friends. I had taken the chance to send everyone a quick text in the morning "breakfast anyone?" and was thrilled to get positive responses back immediately. It's sometimes hard to get all of our scheduled to cooperate.
My friend Paula gave me a beautiful picture book as a Christmas gift. Being a librarian, everyone knows how passionate I am about libraries and books and this book portrays the importance of libraries to immigrants in particular. The author of this beautiful book is a Mexican immigrant who came to this country in 1994 with her two month old son. Knowing no English, they discovered the library.

"Where we didn't need to speak, we only needed to trust. And we did! Books became our language. Books became our home. Books became our lives. We learned to read, to speak, to write, and to make our voices heard. Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined. But right now... We are stories. We are two languages. We are lucha. We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers, sonadores of the world." (Dreamers by Yuyi Morales)

Today I am forgoing my weekly attendance at my WW (formerly known as Weight Watchers) meeting. Being the first week in January the meeting will be packed with lots of new people getting started on their New Year's resolutions. The crowds will dwindle in the coming weeks. Since meeting my goal last month I am only required to weigh in once per month to keep my Lifetime status which comes with the perk of never having to pay again as long as I am within two pounds of my goal weight. Thankfully I have three more weeks within which to fulfill my obligation. Hopefully that will be time enough to erase any weight damage the holidays may have done (it wasn't me, it was the holidays). Today instead I will work on putting away all of the Christmas decorations and getting my quilting area organized. I have lots of projects that need to be completed in 2019. Not a problem as long as I can keep from starting any new ones before the others are complete.