It was hard to go back to work today. On Friday, when school was unexpectedly cancelled, I didn’t let myself think too much about all the things I had planned that wouldn’t happen. But yesterday, as I sketched out the week, I realized it was going to be hard to get caught up after the missing day. I’m not the teacher who can just say, oh well, we missed that, let’s move on. I’m the kind of teacher who tries to cram at least parts of what we missed into the next week, and stresses herself out doing it.
{Please know I don’t wear that as a badge of honor, but recognize it as an area of growth.}
This morning the cat knocked the vitamin sorter onto the floor and it took me forever to find the 15yos five Concerta pills. I left work late because of the lost time, but luckily the traffic wasn’t too bad (shockingly actually, traffic is usually awful on Monday if I leave late.)
At Costco I left my cart somewhere to grab something and then I accidentally walked away with someone else’s cart, and by the time I brought that back (the person found it again thank goodness!), I couldn’t find my own cart anywhere. Maybe someone took mine by accident too? I searched all over before finally giving up and starting again with a new cart. It was totally demoralizing; I had to go back and grab so many items again. Thank goodness I hadn’t left my wallet/keys or phone in my cart! I do that sometimes!
At home I had to talk the 12yo out of some I-hate-school spiraling. If he continues to feel so negatively about school it’s going to be a looooong 6.5 more years. It’s all I can do to not let myself spiral after conversations like today’s.
I didn’t end up working out today, and I’m annoyed at myself for it. I would have felt better if I’d gotten my heart rate up, but I felt like I should hang out with the 12yo, then the 15yo came home and the husband wasn’t feeling well, and suddenly it was 9:30pm and I hadn’t worked out but still needed to take the cans out. Boo.
But! Tomorrow is another day. And today was fine, just a lot of “pebbles in my shoe” (as they say) kind of day. I firmly believe the second day after a break is harder than the first, so I should get to bed before I place another pebble in my shoe. Or at this point I guess it would be my slipper.
Thank you. ANd sometimes there is something in the air and everything ffalls apart. Hope today is not the second day after a holiday that experience says is nasty. Hope today is exception to that rule.
KEYS/PHONE/WALLET left in cart sometimes……. WOW. Scary idea.
I know putting my stuff in my cart is dumb. Sometimes I just don’t have good pockets. I don’t think I would walk away from my cart with my stuff in it, but I wouldn’t put it past me. I make bad choices sometimes.
Eek- I have switched carts with a stranger while shopping and I always feel like a fool. Oh man- it stinks that you’ve got a guy not thrilled about school. Hopefully he feels a shift.
My mom and Wednesday are so light in terms of babysitting right now- saving space for identical twin girls who start in Feb. that’ll be interesting. Curly had a very frustrating bball game last night. My adrenaline was pumping and we lost in OT. I did not sleep well. I think part of it is that and another scheduling frustration I’m dealing with right now – Ciach and I not agreeing on how to manage a conflict Friday night.
Oof. Tough way to start back after the break! I’m imagining the frantic scramble to find the pills all over the floor.
i’m late in commenting (where did this week go???) and I hope the rest of the week went better.
What a tough day. Sometimes we just have to mentally “check it off” and move on. Tomorrow is another day and I hope it’ll be much easier on you.
BTW, I have done the “cart switch” at Costco. Ups.