This is my deck, which I finally finished painting on Labor Day--also the day I started my second pass of my KtMS manuscript so I can see if the edits I finished two weeks ago actually make sense.
Today began the second week of school, and I realized around 3:00 that I hadn't stopped to use the restroom all day. And, since at that time I was besieged by sixth graders (who all wanted to escape Language Arts class to use the restroom, by the way), the realization was once again pushed aside until 4:15, when my own son got off the bus and made his way to my classroom, freeing me to finally leave.
Except by then I was in the middle of previewing an online training module, which I have to present to the staff meeting tomorrow morning at 7:30. And since I'll be in the meeting tomorrow morning before class starts, and since my sixth grade homeroom needs way more attention and assistance in the morning than my eighth grade homeroom did last year, I decided I'd better get my chalkboards set up for tomorrow as well. I had two documents open on my computer, and I was pecking away at a lesson plan outline for my boss and a compilation of book blog addresses for my teen book blogging elective, at the same time as I was fixing a snack for Jabber and scheduling a complicated classroom swap with two colleagues.
Still had not peed.
At last, I realized that I was way too busy to keep poor Jabber at school with me until I was done, so I called D. and asked him to come pick the boy up...annoying to D. as he was in the middle of making an experimental dinner recipe (which turned out to be delicious, when I consumed it out of the microwave an hour or so later!), but I was busy planning and photocopying and distributing files full of links into shared folders while I filed IEP notices, answered emails to parents, and double-checked two of my sixth graders' schedule changes.
I did finally make a trip to the bathroom--at home--and during this activity I was visited by a small child who needed help with putting on his socks. Also several arguments/wrestling matches broke out at this time, which I broke up. I heated up my coffee and my dinner while loading the dishwasher and then listened to Jabber read while eating and making out a check for his school photos.
Fixed bedtime snacks. Signed reading minutes. Cleaned up snacks. Wrangled kids a bit. Cleaned kitchen. Went to gym and worked out (while reading the book I am going to start teaching on Thursday, which I've only taught once before, years ago), showered, made lunches, and sat down to revisit those edits.
Except, oh crud, I still haven't blogged.
*Breathes*
And now it's bedtime.
3 comments:
Man, I've always thought working moms have it hard, but teacher moms are the busiest people on the planet. Kudos and energy to you, girl!
Oh, dear. I put off peeing, too. That can't be good for your body!
I remember those days. Wow. It's exhausting. I will repeat, teachers don't make enough money for all they do. Neither do parents for that matter.
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