We closed the last door in the carpool line and made our way back to my darkened, vacated classroom. My teacher friend and I had found ourselves “in bloom” at the same time, as a substitute teacher once described her. I was expecting my first child, and she was expecting her second.
In the afternoons when the halls fell quiet and we could take a deep breath, we often gathered in one of our classrooms to share stories and reflections about our students in an effort to understand them better and to learn new ways to provide them with what they needed to grow.
Today we talked about the tiny beings blossoming within us, still attached by cord and sharing our oxygen and blood. Today we tried to understand them better and to imagine who they might be. [Read more…]
I just knew I was having a girl. I felt it in my heart. I sat in the sun on the playground one day watching my students run by in a blur, and as their 10-year-old energy swirled around me, I had this anchoring feeling that I was having a girl.
