Despite my super advanced procratinating skills, I did get stuff taken care of and the cleaning people came and my house looks great! Yay! I feel a huge sense of relief. This weekend my dad and step-mom come and Kelly has a swim meet and cub scout crossover and then it's (hopefully) smooth sailing right into summer. I have 7 days of work left and ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I have a maid service coming to clean before my Dad and Step-mom get her on Friday. Sadly, I need to do some decluttering before they can clean and yet here I sit on my couch procrastinating. It's 2 past midnight and I work tomorrow...why am I such a fool. I have the strongest urge to put on my headphones and start up Supernatural on ( Read more... )

My mood keeps flucuating between in the holiday spirit and miles away from it. I suspect part of it is because I won't be seeing my family this year as Brad and his brother decide to do Disney World for Christmas and just, the holidays are so stressful. Every year I say I'm going to be more prepared and better about getting it all done ahead of ( Read more... )

Hearing that Kelly has spent the last 3 days at school out of sorts with red-rimmed and teary eyes multiple times during the day and isolating himself from his friends breaks my heart. Whywhywhy does he have to deal with this crap. I realize there are WAAAAAAAY worse things than having to takes meds that can stop working and cause depression, but ( Read more... )

Well today ended up being much much better than I expected. The morning was hard because my co-teacher called in (she'd been in an auto accident and was still feeling pretty sore.) so some of our kids who normally do great were thrown off by having a sub, so there was more crying than usual in the morning. The new little girl showed up with her ( Read more... )

Unbelievably...the two little girls were quiet during naptime. Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooohooo!!!! We separated them, which we've done in the past only to be met with wild wailing, but today they were quiet. They didn't sleep, but they stayed quietly on their nap mats, hooray ( Read more... )

The problem with crawling into your own hole when all is coming down around you is that often when you get brave and poke your head up to see what's what...you find everyone else ran for the fallout shelter.

So, I, in a moment of great wisdom...aka pure insanity, said yes when my work called at the end of summer and asked me to work both MWF and TTH classes this year. I thought, what the heck it's only two more days and it's only hard in the beginning. Boy, what a flipping understatement! These two classes have been the most difficult of all the ( Read more... )

So this was my second night in a row with a dream featuring my mom. Last night it had to do with her living in a very nice apartment and at some point she's in an ambulance because she's had a heart attack???? That's just the gist, there are all sorts of other weird things going on ( Read more... )

So, do you help save your boat or help sink it? Sadly I have to say that I'm pretty much a sinker. I'm going to try really hard to turn into a saver.