So Much to Do...

So little time!

Another week down...and what a week it was! The kids at school have been terrible. I had to write up two of them today in two separate incidents. Another of my young Lochinvars is on a 5-day out-of-school suspension for "mooning" the opposing team at a track meet yesterday. Then there is the trouble that is brewing between a couple of our young "ladies"--over a guy, of course. Stupidity abounds! I didn't get to teach much today. Was spending too much time stamping out brush fires among students!

By my calculations, if I count out the two days I will take off for the Dayton Hamvention, I have 11 more days with students and one more day to finish with grades and cleaning out my classroom. I can do this! I've started giving things away. Have takers for some of my big items--refrigerator, desktop organizer shelves, etc. Still have to find someone who will take the big television that I traded a radio for a number of years ago (before the district got rid of cable TV in the classrooms). It goes to the trash if no one wants it. The rest goes to that big Dumpster in the Sky. I have stepped up my cleaning efforts because, just like packing to move, I think I've made progress when, in fact, there is a ton more to do.

This has been a particularly wicked week for me because there has been no break in grandkid care in the evenings. Megan's coursework, as of today, is officially done for the summer...but because I was helping out so she could get everything completed, I haven't had time to regroup and rejuvenate for the week. Had the Girl Scout campout last weekend, homework supervision all week, the Young Author's Workshop with the children on Wednesday evening, supervision of both kids after Ry's soccer game last evening...plus baths. Laundry is piled high. Toys are everywhere. Dishes aren't done. (Meals have suffered this week, too.) Tonight, Meg took the children to Muncie and is on her way home as I type. The silence in this messy house is wonderful! I even took a nap! (Meg says Kendra--Daddy Nathan's fiancee--has a friend from Chicago visiting with her four children this weekend...plus their three. That makes seven Munchkins running around the house. She called as she left for home saying she couldn't get out of there fast enough!)

Meg will be gone tomorrow so it's just me and the laundry and the spiders here. Robin asked me to clean her room and spray everything while she was gone. Bless her heart. I do so remember the years visiting at my grandparents' farm, watching crickets hop across the living room floor... I was scared too...just not brave enough to let anyone know I was. Robin was promised a Webkinz if she could get through the week going to bed okay. I know she has had to talk to herself about not getting up (because she told me so), and bedtime has been better. Ryan is largely a trouper, unafraid of the dark or bugs.

Life goes on, with or without me. I am really just holding my breath to get the school year over with. It's a bad approach, I know...but the year is two weeks too long this year!