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Seasons of Love on repeat in my head
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
How do you measure a lifetime?
Mom had her own weight in photographs. Every time we open a drawer or a box, we find more. I brought a full trunk home with me to sort through, but they’re my father’s mother’s, and some of them date to mid-1800′s or so based on the daguerreotypes and clothing. Some have names. Most don’t ( Read more... ) -
Progress
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
I haven’t gotten to the hospital yet this morning, but they’ll be sending Mom out today or tomorrow, I’m sure. Hopefully, it won’t be home-she’s not able to get herself out of bed independently, and there’s no way she can put on the back brace she has to wear on her own.
So now she’s moved to the next thing on her list- ( Read more... ) -
And the diagnosis is….
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
Mom broke her T12, which explains all her back pain. However, her white blood cell count is in the leukemia range.
We’ll be talking palliative care with the doctors tomorrow.
(I am so not impressed with this particular aspect of my stage of life. But I’m grateful to have five siblings to share the angst-most ( Read more... ) -
Is it vacation? How would I know?
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
I’m still heading into town every morning.
I’m sitting at a computer all morning and well into the afternoons.
I’m not writing fiction while I’m there. Go figure.
Last day of face-to-face support as I write this curriculum, but I’ve only gotten through twelve weeks and two units. I wrote another two weeks late yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Is it vacation? How would I know?
I'm still heading into town every morning ( Read more... ) -
Made it and moving on!
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
The classroom is clean. Not completely organized because the room doesn’t lend itself to storage. At all. They would have had to have built storage if they wanted me to actually hide things away.
Still better than what it was, and if they actually replace the tile floors that lifted this year, then it will be a disaster ( Read more... ) -
It’s over!
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
And yet, it’s not. I’m back to school all this week for aligning our curriculum map, which is giving me the horrors. My principal dropped the fact that the alignment will extend to writing, which means the entire school will complete each strand of writing standards (opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative) ( Read more... ) -
Next
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
What I should be doing:
-report cards
-wrapping two presents/purchasing a birthday card for Mom’s 85th
-refreshing my memory for where exactly we’re staying, because ‘a hotel’ isn’t going to suffice
-laundry
-repacking the suitcase I just emptied
What I’m doing:
-thinking about chucking it all and going to bed, because ( Read more... ) -
It’s another crazy day…
Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.
This morning, only one mass. And then a race home to throw things in my suitcase and a second race to the airport. I’m off to Las Vegas-a place I’ve always managed to avoid except for one transfer in the airport-until Wednesday. Our principal’s taking five of us to the PLC (Professional Learning Communities) for that ( Read more... )