There are hard days as a mom: teething, crying, refusing to eat. There are hard days as a person: not enough sleep, traffic, cold germs. There are hard days as a teacher: tardies, excuses, indulgent parents.
Some days are horrible, disastrous, but today was not really a hard day so much as just a teeny bit rough. No major roadblocks, just little bumps. But enough little bumps add up to one jostled around lady. I finally sat down at 10 pm and just didn't have enough energy to write the blog I wanted to tonight.
Today I wasn't losing, but I definitely wasn't winning. I had crazy student presentations all day today. Power point and speeches are a recipe for every excuse in the book. My thumb drive won't work. My mom packed our thumb drive away. My computer at home had a stolen copy of powerpoint. My thumb drive erased my presentation. After four hours of these, after 16 years of teaching, I just nod and say, OK it's late. One kid even brought in a note. But I gave them three weeks in class to do the work. Everyone could have finished in class, just so I wouldn't have to listen to excuses.
On top of the kids and in the middle another teacher came in and expected me to drop everything (in the middle of a student's speech! ! !) UGH. I don't even want to talk about how unprofessional people can be. Who walks in during a student speaking and tries to engage me in an in depth conversation about a student who hasn't cared all year, but she wants to save his grade today, a day after his project was due.
Then grocery shopping which is my least favorite thing of my general duties. I prefer poopy diapers and cleaning toilets. Then it was even more special since Walmart has decided to rearrange the entire store. Almost nothing was where it was last week. We were out of everything and the shopping was going to be in depth anyways, so having to play hide and seek with the crackers was extra special.
To top off the day, the baby's new allergy medicine made her sick. She regurgitated all over me, the couch, the carpet, and herself. Getting tomato sauce out of the carpet is challenging and almost impossible out of what was a white shirt. And when you're only one person and vomit is everywhere it is kind of overwhelming. I sent out a facebook sigh. THANK GOD for a neighbor reading it. She sent up her daughter to help. I had it mostly under control but not quite and she sat with Lil Bit, freshly bathed but mad about her jammies - she is on an anti-jammie campaign this week?, while I cleaned the carpet and couch and sprayed her top with stain remover.
Then she refused her bottle and screamed bloody murder when I tried to rock her to sleep, so I put her down tired, frustrated and swamped with all the things that didn't get done tonight. Here it is again after 10:30, the dog needs out and I haven't changed my pjs yet.
We did watch American Idol and laugh and tickle and play ball. She was giggling and so happy most of the evening. Being able to spend some good, fun time with her was great. It was a bright spot to my day as always, so today was not horrible, just tiring and draining and one of those days that being alone feels LONELY. I wasn't losing today, but I really didn't feel like I was winning.
Some days are horrible, disastrous, but today was not really a hard day so much as just a teeny bit rough. No major roadblocks, just little bumps. But enough little bumps add up to one jostled around lady. I finally sat down at 10 pm and just didn't have enough energy to write the blog I wanted to tonight.
Today I wasn't losing, but I definitely wasn't winning. I had crazy student presentations all day today. Power point and speeches are a recipe for every excuse in the book. My thumb drive won't work. My mom packed our thumb drive away. My computer at home had a stolen copy of powerpoint. My thumb drive erased my presentation. After four hours of these, after 16 years of teaching, I just nod and say, OK it's late. One kid even brought in a note. But I gave them three weeks in class to do the work. Everyone could have finished in class, just so I wouldn't have to listen to excuses.
On top of the kids and in the middle another teacher came in and expected me to drop everything (in the middle of a student's speech! ! !) UGH. I don't even want to talk about how unprofessional people can be. Who walks in during a student speaking and tries to engage me in an in depth conversation about a student who hasn't cared all year, but she wants to save his grade today, a day after his project was due.
Then grocery shopping which is my least favorite thing of my general duties. I prefer poopy diapers and cleaning toilets. Then it was even more special since Walmart has decided to rearrange the entire store. Almost nothing was where it was last week. We were out of everything and the shopping was going to be in depth anyways, so having to play hide and seek with the crackers was extra special.
To top off the day, the baby's new allergy medicine made her sick. She regurgitated all over me, the couch, the carpet, and herself. Getting tomato sauce out of the carpet is challenging and almost impossible out of what was a white shirt. And when you're only one person and vomit is everywhere it is kind of overwhelming. I sent out a facebook sigh. THANK GOD for a neighbor reading it. She sent up her daughter to help. I had it mostly under control but not quite and she sat with Lil Bit, freshly bathed but mad about her jammies - she is on an anti-jammie campaign this week?, while I cleaned the carpet and couch and sprayed her top with stain remover.
Then she refused her bottle and screamed bloody murder when I tried to rock her to sleep, so I put her down tired, frustrated and swamped with all the things that didn't get done tonight. Here it is again after 10:30, the dog needs out and I haven't changed my pjs yet.
We did watch American Idol and laugh and tickle and play ball. She was giggling and so happy most of the evening. Being able to spend some good, fun time with her was great. It was a bright spot to my day as always, so today was not horrible, just tiring and draining and one of those days that being alone feels LONELY. I wasn't losing today, but I really didn't feel like I was winning.
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