Book Fair Break

In case you hadn't noticed, the theme this year is superheroes/Reading Saves the Day. This was the shirt design Scholastic offered. I loved it the moment I saw it! I even got a cape to match, which I used at our kick off event.

Book Fair Break

We did a Guess the Page Count contest. Our winner's guess was only 12 pages off from the correct answer!

Book Fair Break

Prize certificates for our contests.

Book Fair Break

We have an all-school reading goal of 150,000 minutes. These are our tracking bookmarks.

Inspired by... the finish line

I am up to my eyeballs in  Book Fair preparation these days (I am the coordinator for my son's school) and will be taking a break from posting until we hit the finish line. Hopefully along the way I will find more to inspire me.  In the mean time, I'll post a few pictures of what we are up to for the Fair. See you in a couple weeks!
 

Inspired by... people

One of my facebook friends has a new blog and I saw a link the other day and went to check it out. I was immediately inspired. I'll let you check it out the inspiring post for yourself here, but in summary, she has decided at 39 years old that she wants the next 39 years to be filled with more adventures and fewer regrets. One of the lines that caught my attention was this: <<But I woke up recently realizing that I was settling.  I was telling  myself that “I was 39 and so this was it.”>>

Since I am on my own quest for personal mission and connection and intentionality in my life, I was inspired by Kim to keep going - to keep finding myself and trying hard things and making my own adventures.

Inspired by... people

Christina Katz inspires me. Her books (Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids and Get Known Before The Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths To Grow An Author Platform) inspire me. They make me want to run to a coffee shop with a pen and paper and start writing. Her newsletter, The Prosperous Writer, inspires me to do the same. When she writes about writer events she is doing, I want to move to Oregon. When she talks about the successes of her students, I want to set aside a pay check or two and take as many of her classes as I can (too bad those pay checks never stretch that far - some day, though...).

Even if you have no interest in writing, check out Christina - she will make you want to dig into whatever is your "thing" and grow in your skills and your passion.

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