Ben’s departure to Portland, Oregon is 2 days away. Anna’s wedding is 1 day away. End of school year is today. My life for the past 8 months has been so, so, so busy and crazy that I won’t know what miraculous transformation will occur on Monday, May 30th. I feel like my life in the blender will possibly stop. The house will be quiet (and clean!), I won’t have a “to-do” list a mile long. I won’t be using my lunch hours for errands and running around. I won’t have 10-20 emails and text messages a day regarding either graduation/wedding. I won’t have this foreboding voice always saying, “You forgot something. You forgot something.” It will be the first summer in 10 years that I WON”T teach summer school nor work 2 other jobs. I have this fear. And it truly is a real fear of mine. This fear of having “down time”. Of not being productive. Of not “earning my keep”. Of not having a regular workday.
Bobby says he will leave me a “to do” list every day if that would help me. My response: “Let me TRY this so called downtime first.” Lol.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Crazy Days
I just ate too too many potato chips! Stress eating - hate it! I know it's because of the following...
Today’s list to do at school:
Type up 55 food orders and take them to Jesses’s Burritos afterschool (for Cinco de Mayo field trip)
Work on 3 student piñatas to “fix them” (these students are not “art inclined” and needed lots of help!)
Make sure the other piñatas (30+ piñatas!) are ready to be taken to elementary schools by 4:00 pm today!
Type up list of students names going to field trip tomorrow and give them to office (so they won’t be counted absent)
Take pictures of all of the pinatas so students can have mementos
Send announcement to office regarding Spain meeting
Email Spain enrollees to give them the flight information
Send work for 3 students who are in ISS (in school suspension) for the week
Send work for 1 student who is in AEP (disciplinary alternative educational placement) for the month
Copy papers for tomorrow (I will be gone on field trip and have to leave work for the students)
Make sub plans for substitute teacher
Grade papers and enter grades into gradebook
Enter grades into computer
Teach!! (what my actual job is!!)
AAAAAGH!!!!!!
Today’s list to do at school:
Type up 55 food orders and take them to Jesses’s Burritos afterschool (for Cinco de Mayo field trip)
Work on 3 student piñatas to “fix them” (these students are not “art inclined” and needed lots of help!)
Make sure the other piñatas (30+ piñatas!) are ready to be taken to elementary schools by 4:00 pm today!
Type up list of students names going to field trip tomorrow and give them to office (so they won’t be counted absent)
Take pictures of all of the pinatas so students can have mementos
Send announcement to office regarding Spain meeting
Email Spain enrollees to give them the flight information
Send work for 3 students who are in ISS (in school suspension) for the week
Send work for 1 student who is in AEP (disciplinary alternative educational placement) for the month
Copy papers for tomorrow (I will be gone on field trip and have to leave work for the students)
Make sub plans for substitute teacher
Grade papers and enter grades into gradebook
Enter grades into computer
Teach!! (what my actual job is!!)
AAAAAGH!!!!!!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Quiet Evenings
Just here sitting with Bobby as he downloads music onto his IPod and I switch between Words with Friends (my newest addiction) and reading a really GREAT book on iBooks (The Fountainhead). As you can tell, I am loving my iPad! Lol. It's Cinco de Mayo week and my week is totally absorbed with 30+ pinatas and getting them ready to take to the Crockett\Gateway elementary students! I also have 6 classroom fiestas to get taken care of this week! Fun but sometimes exhausting.
I am about to do my weights especially since I just had this amazing Snickers ice cream bar! It was pure heaven! I will also be doing running in the morning. I just love running and the therapy that it gives me. Spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. Bobby says I keep too many things in and I think he is correct. Running coupled with my quiet time gives me the outlet for these bottled up emotions. He says I don't like confrontation so I usually just keep quiet. Once again, he is correct. I can usually go 2-3 days without running and/or quiet time before I go crazy. Ha ha. Funny but very true. Anna and I had a heated argument last night and I know it was because I was tired, stressed, and hadn't exercised nor had my quiet time. I thank God we were able to forgive eachother but I am also pained that it caused hurt between us. God is merciful and is growing me and showing me how to control all of these haywire emotions. During last nights Crosspoint "Engage" concert, God showed me that the human heart truly is a deceitful thing and one that easily lends itself to sin and darkness - just
like Conrad's literary book, "Heart of Darkness". Only through my ever closeness to my Saviour do I have hope in conquering my sinful nature.
I am about to do my weights especially since I just had this amazing Snickers ice cream bar! It was pure heaven! I will also be doing running in the morning. I just love running and the therapy that it gives me. Spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. Bobby says I keep too many things in and I think he is correct. Running coupled with my quiet time gives me the outlet for these bottled up emotions. He says I don't like confrontation so I usually just keep quiet. Once again, he is correct. I can usually go 2-3 days without running and/or quiet time before I go crazy. Ha ha. Funny but very true. Anna and I had a heated argument last night and I know it was because I was tired, stressed, and hadn't exercised nor had my quiet time. I thank God we were able to forgive eachother but I am also pained that it caused hurt between us. God is merciful and is growing me and showing me how to control all of these haywire emotions. During last nights Crosspoint "Engage" concert, God showed me that the human heart truly is a deceitful thing and one that easily lends itself to sin and darkness - just
like Conrad's literary book, "Heart of Darkness". Only through my ever closeness to my Saviour do I have hope in conquering my sinful nature.
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