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Can you tell that I am just a little bit excited about achieving National Board Certification?!?!?! After planning to release the results last Friday, the NBC people had a little bit of trouble with their servers, so we didn't find out until this morning.  I checked it as soon as I woke up, and, thank God, I passed. 
Then I waited and waited for my study partner Vicki to share her news.  She passed, too!! So now I am completely happy.  Happy for me, and happy for her.  And I'm happy that this process is (at least for the next 9 years) over. 

And now everything else on my plate suddenly seems do-able.  Glad to have this not hanging over my head anymore.

In other news, I got to meet the author of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper today, the fabulous Tom Angleberger.  He was so wonderful and kind, and I **may** have talked him into coming to my school in March 2012.  He is speaking at a conference on a Saturday morning in March, and I asked him about coming to us on Friday.  So I'll email him and see what we can work out!

Here he is with some less than quiet and patient children who were in front of me as we waited to get our books signed.