Celebrating Speech and the Alumni

I started a poem on the bus to contest today, thinking it would be my celebration. It was cozy and warm and full of love for my speech kids. We had a great day. Good performances. Half of the groups are moving on to state competition. Great day. As always, I posted pictures on our Facebook page When we first started the Facebook page, it was private and only the current students could join it. Once they graduated, I would delete them. And then I quit that. I decided to leave graduates part of the group because, really, they are still part of us. They are our foundation. And I like that they will post comments supporting those who are still there even if they don't know who some of them are. And tonight, as I was sitting here telling my husband what a great day we had and how much I love my speech kids. And how proud of them I am. And all the great moments we had. I received this Facebook message from an alumni I cried. Honestly, as I write this, I still