I WON I WON I WON I WON

FINALLY

I can tell you!!!

 I found out last week...

I got a call last Wednesday....

It was the Washington Post....and they said....

"Lesli...YOU WON!!!"
(story here)
todays paper

There were 2 winners, one by the # of reader votes (not me)

finnians moon interiors

and a Judges favorite 

(ME!!!)

...okay I know this is not discovering a cure for anything...

or even an Oscar....

But it was to me

it IS  

HUGE to me

It was JUST what the Doctor ordered...

I was so grateful to feel JOY after a pretty

well

"JOY-LESS" stretch. 

I had a smile on that hurt my face...for hours.

My face hurt. 

I was bursting...I could not reach my husband..everyone was  at work
the kids were still at school...
WP asked that I wait until the Article came out
to post the news on my blog....
...Who could I tell??

I had to go teach my Elementary School  Acting/Improv class..

I told the students that if they were good I would tell them my Good news...

....so at the end of the class, one of them said...

"So were we good?"..."So can you tell us your good news?"

....and so I told them...

 and they jumped up and down 

screaming and shouting 

 "YAY! YAY!"

and then one kid said ...

"What's the Washington Post?"

 
 ...keepin it real....

A lovely interviewer from the Post and a super cool photographer came last Friday...

Phoebe's room has never been so clean!

She even got to come home from school to be in the photos...

oh my....

Thank you for voting for me...!!!

I WON!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX