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1. Last Friday was declared "Librarian Appreciation Day" at my school. I was greeted by a poster featuring my photo on the door to the office and the door to the library. As I told one of the children, sadly, I don't have to look at myself that much in my normal life. I look at the mirror in the morning and for the most part that is it. It was hard looking at that old lady and realizing that she is me.
But, other than that, the day was lovely. They bought me lunch and made posters and the principal even sang to me in the announcements in the morning. All in all I am glad it is finished.
2. On Saturday hubby and I had a retreat at church all day. We spent part of the retreat day at Creve Coeur Park. The best part of that was, as I was walking around the lake I heard "Hi, Mom!" from behind me. It was my son running the park. He is training for a half marathon up in Q in May.
3. On Sunday I took off for the Lake of the Ozarks. The Missouri Librarians were meeting this week. I haven't gone down there for a few years. I always learn a lot of new library tricks. I got hooked on databases the first time I went to this conference. I was doing the blog already by the second time I went down to the Lake.
The Sunday night keynote speakers were the guys who write
Unshelved. It is library humor. These librarian's wearing the tiaras get it. (I wasn't sure what the tiaras were all about.)
4. Monday continued the conference. I learned about Common Core things and Scratch. I looked at the new librarian evaluation scheme invented by my state. And I had fun with my people. Library Anns like me.
Monday night the winners of the book awards were announced and some of the last year's awardees spoke to us. We heard from James Dashner and Jennifer Brown and Kirby Larson and Mary Netterby. They are all really nice people. But, I really like Jennifer Brown who wrote Hate List.
The winners were Out of My Mind and Girl, Stolen and Rot and Ruin in the bigger kids categories.
5. Tuesday I played with an iPad and decided that I really didn't want one. And had a good brunch and drove home.
Next year this conference will be in St. Louis! No three hour drive to get there. No staying in hotels.
I had prayer group in the evening. And I got word of the death of the mother of one of my women's group sisters who I huddled in the basement with during last week's tornado. We had lifted B. up in prayer. She had just passed the one year anniversary of going on hospice care.
6. Wednesday we began state testing at our school. I had a group of 3 students. We will continue on with this through next week. It was good to get back to work. But, not to start with the testing.
7. Thursday, I got in trouble with teachers for letting eighth graders linger too long talking to me. Two of my girls have told me they plan to have themselves assigned to spend the day with me before the school year ends. I had my after school book club. They are a hoot. But, they really love books and reading.
