Guess who had her period this weekend? This girl! And it’s been a while so I’m guessing that it was a doozy (as far as hormone fluctuations). JJ wins the the prize for spotting that way before I did. You know me too well friend…
Things in my head are definitely better. Mostly I’m just not thinking past the next two weeks, which will be totally nuts at school. This week we have our orientations for returning students; I will be helping the six graders return to campus on Monday and Tuesday and seeing my own (Advisory) students on Thursday and Friday. It’s a bit much to wrap my head around, so I’m trying to take it one day at a time.
It’s also creating a child care crunch that will be hard on my husband. I tried to take on more last week in anticipation of being gone a lot this week (which is also part of why I was spiraling last week – I was on with my kids way more than usual). I hope he doesn’t have as hard a time of it as I did.
I may get to go for a run down on the peninsula on Wednesday. That is my biggest bright spot over the next five days. Here’s hoping Thursday’s gloomy forecast doesn’t rain on my parade.
Last Thursday I went to my first martial arts class in the dojo in over a year ago. Only three of us were in a giant room with windows open and fans blowing (and all three of us had received our first vaccination shots). It felt SO GOOD to kick and punch all the way down the floor. I actually teared up multiple times during the 90 minutes I was there. I honestly did not realize how much I missed it until I could do it again. I also picked up my FAVORITE meal afterward. Thursday evening was really, really nice.
The weekend was pretty decent as well. My kids are suddenly interested in D&D so we got a starter kit (along with some books from the library) and played our first campaign on Sunday, after spending time Saturday creating our characters. My husband led the campaign (he has played before) and our kids were really into it and two hours passed by very quickly. We’re excited to play again next weekend (or maybe this week, but I’ve tempered our kids’ expectations on that because I assume I’ll be a zombie by the time I get home from school this week, and that my husband will be playing catch up whenever I’m at home).
We had parent-teacher-conferences this past week and our son’s teacher thinks his class will be back in some capacity in May. So he may get 2-3 weeks in a classroom this year. The agreement with the union is still not official (and the schedule they are asking teachers to adhere to is NUTS – I would never agree to it) so I’m not getting my hopes up. It would be AMAZING if he returned in some capacity before the school year ends. I’m hoping for it like one hopes for an early summer camp offering – tentatively as a possible fun opportunity that we can live without. My daughter’s teacher doesn’t expect them to return this year, which I expected since she’s in 5th grade.
Spring break is in two weeks and I’m (as always) ready for it. Here’s to looking ahead only to the end of March.
Well, I won’t say I told ya so since I only asked about something YOU have identified over the years, but I am thankful that hopefully your head and heart will feel better with this hormonal shift out of the way! Sounds like you had quite a few bright spots over the past few days as well. Yay!
Also, running in the rain is one of my favorite things. I vote you run even IF it does rain on your parade. 🙂
So glad to hear this! I went back to our barre studio last week and it was really really good to be back.
Hormones are complex and sneaky. Glad you are feeling better. Tracking the ugly times helped me so when I hit one I understood that was what was going on and also that it would pass. That second part was SO IMPORTANT. Can also help your doc get an idea of what may be happening and increase their ability to help. Steady state hormones are amazingly easier.
Best of all was to hear your more normal mood. Life isn’t easier but the coping is less impossible. Agree you need to run Thursday if you can and manage the weather situation. The pressure of the children not being in class when you are on campus is insane. Every district seems to be coming up with different answers and none that I have heard about so far really works well……Even full days leaves the afterschool situation unhinged. But the bars are open.
Spring break is a delightful idea. Hope everyone has a glorious one!
It’s also creating a child care crunch that will be hard on my husband.
He’ll be fine…