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There’s a whole heaping lot of stuff going on around here and it’s a real challenge to remain sane much less update the blogs and visit those of my friends. I assure you, I will more than make up for lost during during the sweet summertime.
Just a recap:
Grandma is still in the hospital. Sunday will mark two weeks. There have been differing reports of how much longer her stay will be as well as what her immediate future care needs will be. To say that this has been a constant source of frustration for my mother would be a serious understatement. She’s exhausted beyond belief and stressed to the max. Grandma is getting grumpy about the whole deal and she is just so incredibly weak that any movement at all is a strain.
I’m staying late at work nearly every day. Meetings for this committee and that committee. Senior video in its first “final draft” is due on the 17th and we are scrambling. As the quality of our productions increases, so do the requests (and demands) for our services. I’ve got to get a handle on how to best organize it all, but the time for that, unfortunately, is not when we’re right in the thick of it. Senior Video will be shown and delivered to the senior class the day before we pack up all our gear for a remote shoot to tape graduation which we need to finalize and burn for all who purchase it within a week. The good news is that exams for my classes are projects and I finally moved the due date up. So, I’ll not be dealing with exams on top of all the other stuff. They were due April 3rd. I have very few turned in and after tomorrow, students will lose 10 points per day it is turned in late. I’ll add a cut off date to the mix tomorrow. I will not accept them after the 16th. At that point, the best they could score with a nearly perfect project is a 50% anyway. Ah, a problem solved. This is another reason why I write it out.
We had a whirlwind week organizing and taping the Mock Car Crash and now editing it. Tomorrow we tape the Talent Show and edit that. The thespians want the archive copies of their productions for their banquet, which are all on DV CAM tape, not mini DV, so we have to convert all that. We taped Student Government speeches, only someone messed with the settings and we didn’t get video. Reshot those today. And so on and so forth. We’re in talks with the Chamber for a service project as well as the middle school for an orientation video. I’m also trying to write a grant. So much learning happening I think my head might explode.
Of course you know that Lucas is participating in Spring soccer, so we do that three days a week, weather permitting. Sometimes I’m grateful when it rains. Anyone ever been there? I used to be disappointed that I spent that $80 and he missed a practice. Now I think it was a lot cheaper than therapy. He’s also graduating from pre-school next month so we’re ordering gowns and taking pictures for that. Oh, I keep forgetting to call the elementary school about that pre-registration I saw on the sign! Tomorrow’s the last day. Do I need his birth certificate? Social security card? I just ran downstairs to get those before I forget again. Don’t have a shot record. Ugh.
Matt insisted we have a garage sale, even though I wanted to cop out & just donate to Goodwill. I figured it’d be roughly the same tax-wise, but I’ve never been good with figures. Anybody have any answers on that one? I just think that if we make $300, that’s all well and good. I could use it. But how much was that actually…you know per hour of my life that I will never get back? So…that might be happening on Good Friday. That’s when Grandma’s birthday falls this year, by the way. And she gets to spend it absolutely miserable.
Did I mention that Matt also decided he’d like to paint the playroom? I bought the paint and supplies per his request. Guess who has taped the room. Go on, guess. I love that man, I do. But if he gives me another job I’m going off the deep end. Did he tell me to tape the room? Did he ask me to? No. That is just my personality. I am a GO-GETTER. I make lists. Actually, I’ve started to grow out of lists to some degree. If I can take care of it immediately, I do. Saves me the time of putting it on a list, moving it to another list and eventually crossing it off. Even though the crossing off feels so very rewarding, I’m learning to just love the actual accomplishment. Plus, paint settles after a while. It’s really best to use it when it’s been freshly mixed at the store.
Evan turns three very soon and we’re gonna throw him a party. He didn’t have one at two (Lucas did, for the record), so this is quite exciting. I’ve been shopping for all things Thomas the Tank Engine and filling out invitations begging people to RSVP. That’s next weekend, by the way.
I am taking the time, in the midst of all of this, to connect with long lost friends though social networking sites (as well as keep up with current ones). It’s so cool. Amazing how the passage of time just disintigrates under the bridge. I am truly blessed to have such good people in my life. We strive to build eachother up and help one another along this journey. I wish I knew sooner how important all this really was in the grand scheme of things. Maybe I could have changed some things, I dunno. I still maintain that everything happens for a reason and I guess my spiritual journey is right on course.
Life IS so very good, and my goal is to figure out how to enjoy just a wee bit more of it! Matt and I are going on a date night Saturday (this happens twice a year!) and I bought us tickets to Wicked today for late June. It was a splurge, but we deserve it.
Over and out. I’ll see ya when I see ya. For real. It’s day by day this time of year.
We were also in one of the local papers! It’s always exciting when someone notices something cool that you’ve done! I’m very excited about what this does for the credibility of my program and the work that I’m doing there. A really cool thing about this is that the reporter was just scouring the web and ran across something that was out there and called the school board to see if we could do a last minute interview. The principal and I had asked the media representative to look into some press coverage, but that wasn’t how it all shook down.
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Of course I cried when my students surprised me with this at our Second Annual Film Fest and Vision Awards this year. It makes it all worth it to hear them tell me such lovely things. It is I that has been blessed to know them. I am not their teacher, but their student as well.
I love Todd Parr. I have been reading his books to Lucas for years and when we got DirectTV a while back I was delighted that he has a show. Lucas and I both enjoy it quite a bit. If you are unfamiliar with it, do yourself and your kids a favor and head to the library. The driving message is "feel good about yourself, you are unique and special. Feel good about others, they too are unique and special." The art is colorful and the tone is humorous, not didactic and the songs are cute with the intro sung by Smokey Robinson.
I immediately saw the influence when I picked Lucas up from school and looked at the work he had done on this particular day.
Hats off to you, Todd.
Love, Carrie.
There have been some times in my life when I could sort everything out chronologically. Now, I’m usually so busy living in the moment as opposed to thinking about it that I forget to take mental notes.
Living in the present is a choice for me. I don’t know why. Sure, there are a lot of things in the past that were not so pleasant, but it doesn’t paralyze me to think of them. Even if many of them were absolutely unspeakable.
I don’t watch the news often. When Lucas was about 18 months old, I guess; I don’t actually remember… I was watching Oprah after school. It was a touching story and I cried. He looked at me with such confusion. I knew that i had to get my act together.
There is always something in the news that will consume my thoughts if I let it. And usually it’s beyond my control. I just can’t stop thinking about it. The last two cases I heard about and followed were heartbreaking. The woman in Texas with the four daughters and Jesse Davis. I followed up on the latter, which is why I can recall her name. The news does not air at this house when I’m around.
In fact, I monitor and filter just about as many images as I can for Lucas and there are ten times as many that I can’t afford to bother with. I am a bit of a TV nazi. Hmph. That is, when I’m not being the remote control valet service.
Yen and yang. We’re all just doing the best that we can, aren’t we?
Good grief. This was what Lucas stumbled upon last summer. I knew then we needed to be vigilant.
I’m ready to be done with this PROCEDURE…it’s been going on for months. Having a temporary crown for three weeks is not my idea of a good time. It must have taken weeks to get the initial crown appointment, then months for the root canal exam & then the procedure itself. And don’t forget the second initial crown appointment. How’s that for confusing?
I floss. I don’t floss very well, apparently. I do also have what I call "soft teeth." Just prone to…well…decay. It’s a crap shoot.
Anyway, just trying to coordinate the babysitter, fight with Lucas about whether were going to sippee cup or not sippee cup, learn patience with his cars computer game, comfort lucas in the thunderstorm that woke him from his nap, load the dishwasher, begin to lay out the curriculum for next year (my hands were tingling). I am excited about next year. And as soon as I get a few days to think about it further, I’ll really be excited about it. It’s kind of a big year. Round 2.
Oh, all this with the Fox and the Hound up way too loud to distract from the thunder. Did I mention I fielded a call from Matt asking who sang "Angel in the morning?" "Juice Newton." "No, the remake-it was that older woman with black hair is that guest starred on a couple of Friends episodes playing the guitar." "Chrissy Hynde."
All in a day’s work. Whew. Gotta love summer. Had a restful weekend maintaining a low-profile, then had Greg & Amy for steaks last night.
Back to it.
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I really feel like I am it. The eye.
This school year has easily been the most challenging I have encountered in my seven years. It has also been the most rewarding. Interesting how they go hand in hand.
So, the latest catastrophe– we taped student government speeches on a random tape that ended up having girls prank-calling boys talking about crude sexual acts. 22 seconds after the speeches, there it was for anyone still in the classroom to hear.
I put out fires all day Thursday, today, and I imagine I’ll be doing the same on Monday as well.
Summer vacation can’t get here fast enough. I think I heard a teacher say 18 days. Another teacher broke it down to 18 hours with each student. I’ll miss it after a week. Okay, maybe not. I deserve the break!
I really feel like I am it. The eye.
This school year has easily been the most challenging I have encountered in my seven years. It has also been the most rewarding. Interesting how they go hand in hand.
So, the latest catastrophe– we taped student government speeches on a random tape that ended up having girls prank-calling boys talking about crude sexual acts. 22 seconds after the speeches, there it was for anyone still in the classroom to hear.
I put out fires all day Thursday, today, and I imagine I’ll be doing the same on Monday as well.
Summer vacation can’t get here fast enough. I think I heard a teacher say 18 days. Another teacher broke it down to 18 hours with each student. I’ll miss it after a week. Okay, maybe not. I deserve the break!
