It’s been an over-the-top week. Parent conference week plus a trip to UCLA (not a fun drive) for a Tuesday all day meeting to showcase work within the California Subject Matter Project (CSMP), back for more of those conferences and teaching, preparation for an all-day in-person meeting in San Jose for two statewide initiatives that I help facilitate for the California Writing Project (CWP), a flight on Friday after school, the wonderful and thought-provoking meeting yesterday followed by the flight home…I arrived home late, feeling exhausted and ready for bed!

I awoke this morning–briefly–at my regular 5:30am, long enough to peek at the clock and then turn over and go back to sleep for a couple more hours. And when I did wake up, what was on the breakfast menu? Homemade cinnamon rolls: sweet, cinnamon-y goodness, hot from the oven, with oh-so-yummy frosting pooling around the base. The perfect decadent small pleasure baked with love by my amazing husband. A Sunday morning delight! An exclamation point to end my busy, but satisfying week.