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I need to be at work in 25 minutes, but I am still on my couch, in my pajamas. I’m foggy, tired, and full of random thoughts. Do I still remember how to do this? Did I plan enough things to fill the morning? I wish we hadn’t had a homework/organization
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But Open House is tomorrow! Now check out the current state of my classroom, and tell me how on earth I will be ready by then?! It didn’t help that I was in trainings all day long, and had only an hour during my lunch break and an hour and a half at the
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Yesterday was another hard day. Our one child is in a tailspin, presumably because things are very bad at home, and brings to our peaceful little classroom a tornado of terror, rage, and stress. The three adults are barely coping, and it feels terrible.
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Little One is struggling, and we are struggling right along with her. For about two weeks now, she has gone way backward in terms of her behavior. She comes in sad, or manically happy, which soon veers into tears or yelling. She desperately wants the
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When it was time to line up and go home today, I was on my own. My assistant was at a literacy training, and my Americorps volunteer was on her lunch break. I had my three little ones who ride bus 2 wait on the hall bench, and I tried lining up the rest
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It’s like Lord of the Flies downstairs in our cafeteria every morning. Last year was the first year that our school breakfast became a madhouse, and it’s even worse this year. The kids get off the bus, come in the door that’s closest to my classroom,
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Yesterday was even more difficult than I had expected. I got to work early, but it still wasn’t early enough to get everything done before the big meeting. The meeting was actually quite productive; Mom showed up, with Little One in tow, and Mom was very
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So the horrible cold I had the week before last turned into a horrible sinus infection. On Monday and Tuesday I was faltering, and by the time I went home on Wednesday I could barely stand up. In fact, I had to get a ride home! I stayed home (and in bed
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When my new assistant and Miss Dickens and I were standing at the doorway to our room tonight at the end of Open House, waiting until the clock struck seven so we could close up and go home, I sighed, and said, “I would like to have a glass of wine as
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Yesterday was a bit of a stressful day. One child came in with a note explaining that his/her absence for the last two days was because of visits to Child Protection. I was shocked — could not imagine there being a problem in this child’s family. I was
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a migraine, on its way out Raspberry, who does not bring out the best in me my schedule: two post-observation conferences tomorrow with teachers I observed, one on Friday, and helping out in a K class tomorrow with one of the teachers I mentor, plus several
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On Sunday afternoon as I was leaving the house I realized that I didn’t know where my red tote bag with all my lesson planning stuff was. I searched the places it should be, and then the car. Nowhere. That was when I realized, with a feeling of lead in
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The cold isn’t bothering me. The ice, however, is. I find it frustrating to drive on icy, rutted roads, and I’m particularly tired of walking gingerly on icy sidewalks. It occurs to me that walking on the ice is a metaphor for how I’m feeling right now:
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I have had some really great weekends lately. In fact, they have been so nice that I have found myself clinging to them desperately and dreading Monday morning. And that worries me. Work is going well — at least, the teaching preschool part of it is.
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We made it. Today was hard for all of us. I woke up with a migraine, and Miss Slinger was tired and stressed from having her car get towed because of the snow (she spent the evening — and a lot of money — getting it back). The kids, like the little emotional
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