I teach my kids to analyze for shifts in the poetry. Changes in tone/connotation. There was a definite shift in tone today. (Maybe bc I wore my smoking new dress or bc I won a $10 book fair coupon from my librarian).
I AM exhausted, so I know I'M working hard. I presented our new major project which includes A LOT of work. We will work for the next two weeks.* twiligt zone* Mostly all my kids nodded in approvement. Hardly any complaints. Submission perhaps. (My plan is working). No doubt I went elementary style, and I broke it all up in pieces with daily due dates. We made three check lists today alone. I put it all on my class website. AND I tweeted my students what's due tonight. Tomorrow I'm sharing with parents. Coddle coddle. No wonder I'm so tired. We had a great 1.5hr practice. Girls are looking good. I love seeing their progress. My night work is just beginning. I have about three hours of CLP work to do. I just want to sleep in the fetal position. Be an adult Melinda! You wld not believe how different I look now than a few years ago. There are some things I really enjoy about the new me and of course there's always room for insult. Either way the best part is I think I have found me. I know me inside out and what I am made of. Except I have this deep feeling. a tug. A part of me needs filling.
'I'm really looking forward to it. I get to see my wild nephews play circle c soccer on Sat afternoon.
It was one of those times when the thorn was thrown at me for not being good to him. I cld of said something so rude. So embarrassing for him. I might of even cried doing it....but I didn't say a word. I got real quiet and put my head down to focus my task at hand. I took it like I always do bc my kids were in the room. Take your shots at me. It doesn't matter bc I know the truth, and they are not my sins.
I pray every night that I'm not messing my kids up. I'm trying my best to make the right choice. Is it selfish. Am I being selfless. I just don't know.
"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one." Thoreau
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