Busy, Busy, Busy...Or Am I?

Keep in mind as you read this that I have nothing but the career of teaching to go by. I don't know what anyone else's job is like, so I am, by no means, trying to out-do, or one-up. However, when you teach, you take about 2 months to have little responsibility (in theory), and then school starts and it's like an all out sprint until May. Well, I wouldn't say an all out sprint. It's more like, you walk in and take 3-5 days depending on how kind the higher-ups decide to be in giving you payed time to get ready (you can take as much time as you want for free), and you decorate and copy and laminate and hot-glue and organize and make everything nice and neat for your little angels to arrive, and then the sprint begins. My problem this year was that I literally had 2 hours to do what is usually done in 3-5 days, which means that most of that didn't happen for me this year. Not only that, but I was in a totally new place with all new people in a new grade level, so I didn't get to do the fun, cutesy stuff, and I was somewhat disoriented. I've been doing the sprint while doing all the other cutesy, organizational stuff. Imagine a trackmeet where the sprinter jogs around the curve, jumps 10 hurdles, throws herself over the high-jump, tosses a discus, barrels through the triple jump, and pole vaults, all while carrying those long sticks with spinning plates on top, and then heads off to a steady cross-country jog. Fastforward a month and a half and here I am at the cross-country jog. Actually, I'm sitting on my couch with papers graded, lessons planned, laundry folded and put away, no intention of cooking tonight, and the kids' homework is done, bookbags are packed, and Andy has a softball game to go to. This means starting at 8:00 I will have a perfectly quiet, football free evening to do and watch whatever I want. I could even go to sleep if I wanted to. The possibilities are endless!

The Hardest Easiest Project Ever

This really wasn't a difficult project, but it just took me FOREVER to complete. I bought these letters over a month ago thinking this would be a cute, quick, cheap, and easy decoration to add to the kids' rooms. It is cute, and it was fairly easy, and reasonably cheap, but it wasn't so quick. Just because of multiple coats of paint and a little bit (very little bit) of precision needed with the painting, I would paint a little, and then head off to something else while the paint dried, then a week later I would paint a little more, and it became one of those nagging things that I'm glad is finally over. Here's Evan's name strategically placed between Iron Man and Optimus Prime, his 2 favoritest characters. And here are the girls' names with a cute little plaque in between that says all these sweet things about sisters. My sisters actually got it for me, and I thought it would be perfect in their room.
Speaking of precious sisterly things, the girls have bunk beds, but I still walk in to wake them up in the mornings and find them sleeping together in the same bed. I love it because it's just like me and my sisters. I quit sleeping in the same bed with them when I went off to college even though I had my own bedroom for years. I love it!