It's OK to be overwhelmed

A lot of new things are getting ready to happen over the course of the next few weeks and I am giving myself permission to be overwhelmed at times with the caveat that each time I feel this way I try to make myself stop and think of some amazing things that got me to this point.

Tonight, Kelly and I will give our first presentation to a group of district librarians about the genrefication of the library.  This will take place on my "home turf"-my library.  I can not impress upon you how comforting that is to me.  I am really good with little people but I tend to babble/ramble or completely clam up with big people I do not know.  There is no happy medium.  So these folks are the guinea pigs for our presentation (at least for me).  Sorry in advance!

Then tomorrow I head off to my very first grown-up professional spending time away from it all during the school year conference - Common Ground.  I am so excited to be attended and anxious about presenting.  But I have shared all that already.  So tonight I pack, consult my trusty post-its, create some more post-its and send the directions to the car.  The sub plans are ready (that is one thing positive-woo hoo!)

Next week, we repeat the district presentation all over again to another group of librarians and then I will be off to watch my son graduate from college. COLLEGE!  How did that happen?  I am only 25! (Believe that and I have a bridge in Arizona to sell you - CHEAP!)  Last night I had a chance to Google Hangout with him for a few minutes, oh how I love modern technology, and he was sharing all the last minute presentations, papers and such that were occurring in the next few days before finals.  I truly could commiserate. I reminded him of how amazing he is in my eyes and in reality.  He didn't need me to do this but I like to think it made him feel better to hear it anyway.

So the upcoming posts may have some anxiousness in them but I will add a dose of amazingness as well because, after all, amazingness is what gets us all to where we are going and we need to celebrate it in ourselves just like we celebrate it in our kids (biological and school-based). That is super hard, not only for me, but for most adults.  But given the very sad state of affairs lately, I am ready to celebrate some amazingness all around wherever I see it!