A success!

The carnival was a success! It didn’t rain, and the sun even came out for a bit. After the crazy storm we had on Friday, no rain was a massive win.

The volunteers showed up, and did a good job. Especially my students. I was so, so impressed with them, and so grateful. They restored something I thought might be broken forever inside my teacher self. Their participating added so much to the whole experience for me.

And people came. It was a great mix of families from the school and the surrounding community. Everyone had a great time. It was a really fun day.

We made almost $2.5K on Saturday. Adding that to the $2.5K we made on raffle tickets sales in the month leading up to the carnival, we made a very decent amount of money, at least for our school. We feel really proud.

I spent over 10 hours at the school on Saturday. By the time I got home I was exhausted, both mentally and physically. Sunday we hung out. I returned the food we didn’t eat to Costco and took the kids to swimming lessons. I did 4 of the 8 loads of laundry that need to get done. All day I luxuriated in being done.

Today I’m letting the kids stay home from school. I just can’t bear to be away from them all day when I’m about to be away from them for over a week. We’re playing hookie and they couldn’t be more thrilled.

My flight leaves at 7:30 this evening. I am so incredibly excited to spend a week in London with my sister and a good friend. I’m also anxious and sad to leave my family. Ah the contradictory emotions of anyone who has leave a loved one to have any kind of experience – always bitter sweet.

Thank you all for your support this past month as I fell off the grid and into the rabbit hole that was this carnival. It was a massive undertaking, but in the end it felt very worth it. I’m glad we put it on, and I hope we can grow it into a successful event that the school is known for.

But for now it’s my spring break and I’m off to London for some time away from my kids and my life. Maybe I’ll revisit the person I was a long time ago, before I had kids. Maybe I’ll meet someone totally different…