Celebrate This Week: Poetry, Baby Boys, & Leaves!

Join us each weekend for Celebrate This Week with Ruth Ayres. 

                                                         When we pause to celebrate, we find the joy.

A week filled with moments to celebrate and remember.

1.  It's moving day for my daughter!

We've been moving things gradually for two weeks. 

Yesterday we unpacked most of her kitchen,

 but today is the heavy box/ furniture moving day.  

I can't wait to see her new house begin to look more like her home.  

2.  It's only one week until Poetry Camp

and half a week until Irene Latham arrives in Seattle.

I'm excited for Poetry Camp at Western Washington University

and hope it becomes an annual event.  I'm not sure what the poets are doing at Western on Friday, but I hope it's spreading poetry love 

among all those undergrad teacher candidates.  

I met Irene at NCTE 2014 when my new friend

(who I met at the newcomer's breakfast),

Kim Dooele, introduced us.  Irene is 

presenting on Thursday at the school

where I used to teach and where I 

facilitate our after school book club.

3.  My grandson Teddy is 3 months old!

4.  Fall, my favorite season,  officially arrived on Wednesday!  

I captured this pic on a walk with my good friend, Jan.

5.  It's a boy!

Daughter Sara's ultrasound on Tuesday

revealed our new grandchild is a boy.

That evening I found this fantastic "new-to-me" title

in the book sale section of our library.

I am so in love with this book!

With hints of William Carlos Williams' 

poem "The Red Wheelbarrow," Alison

reveals how much depends upon

 a cardboard box in a boy's life.

I am enchanted with this book and

thrilled for our second grandson's arrival in February!