What worked this break
I wrote this during the first week of break, but I think it might be valuable to post anyway, so I’m going to try to make it sense and put it up. This was...
Category: Work/Teaching
Mid-week mumbling
I am truly crawling my way to the finish line this week. I’m just so over everything. It’s raining this morning, and my first class of the day was s...
Wins this week
It’s been a hard week, but there have definitely been some wins. MONDAY. I brought running clothes to school, changed into them super fast, got out of the...
The stuff that is NOT HELPING
I was right. I totally ran out of steam and this morning was a shit show. It started last night when I remembered at 11pm that I still hadn’t put wiper fl...
Solo Parenting Strategies
The husband is out of town this week. The in-laws are also still gone, which means I am really and truly going it alone until the weekend. My kids are older, so...
Five on Friday: Life Updates Edition
WORK. My hard class is driving me crazy. My new favorite phrase is, I’m not going to work harder than you are, and it really sums up how I’m feeling...
So close!
Just one more work day until the break. I keep catching myself thinking it’s the winter break. That is how late this feels for me. (Did you know 11/28 is ...
Trimester 1 Reflection
Tomorrow is the last day of the first trimester. My 8th graders have been struggling this year. I’m not sure if it’s because I have two classes, whi...
Five on Friday: Progress made
Conversation with husband We never did actually write out our ideal weeks, but we thought about them enough to have a productive conversation about what we each...
Seven on Sunday: Struggle Bug Edition
Well, the first week of October was not at all what I was hoping for. I wanted October to be chill and it was the opposite of that, both literally and metaphori...
