I am truly crawling my way to the finish line this week. I’m just so over everything.
It’s raining this morning, and my first class of the day was supposed to be outside for the whole 75 minute block period to film their movie trailers. Uuuuugh.
It’s supposed to rain most of next week actually. This will make entertaining the kids without screens a lot harder.
I really love Christmas and usually go all out for this holiday, but this year I have not done that. The kids never decorated their personal trees, and I never decorated the mini-tree. I didn’t decorate the cardboard covered door by the Christmas tree. I would say about half of the giant Christmas decoration box is still sitting there, untouched. At this point it’s too late for me to motivate, because all I can think of is putting it all away again at the end of the month.
I’ve also only done the bare minimum with our Elf on the Shelf. It might be that I have older kids, but the 15yo is a self-described “Christmas Creature” and she’s always enthusiastic about Christmas magic. I just can’t rally around it this year.
I have been wearing all my Christmas clothes, especially to work. So I’m not being a total Grinch… in fact, today I’m dressed in a Grinch onesie. Ha!
SHU’s book came and I’m so excited to read it over the break. I am really good at planning at work, and my weekly workouts. I’m less good at planning most other things, and I especially need help with long term personal planning. There is definitely a lot in there for me to learn.
Wednesday I went to the dojo and my friend was teaching the class so I led warm ups and then helped teach. A higher belt came for the second class and we reviewed some of our red belt techniques and learned part of our new stick form. I was having a hard time motivating, but my kids were making me crazy at home and that have me the push I needed. I’m really glad I went.
Today is the last sunny day before the projected week of rain, and I have a minimum day so I plan to run after work. It’s been really nice to get so much running in these past few weeks.
I will admit that I started this post yesterday and I was in a foul mood. Today, with only thirty minutes sitting between me and my winter break, I’m feeling better. Sometimes I forget how hard December is at work. Being a teacher right before the holidays is not fun!
I guess I’ll just put this up, because it’s all over the place and could go on forever. Sorry for the rambling post.
Glad you made it and wet Christmas is easier when children are the age of yours than when they were younger. If theey really get bored remind them they can put extra decorations up IF THEY COMMIT to taking them down on Dec 31. So it is ALL on them and you don’t have to undo their work. IF they do decorate be sure to take pictures to remember.
Congratulations on being on break and thank you for writing and reminding me of all the work December used to bring. Cheers and remember to stop and just enjoy it all.
Yay! You made it. My husband has a half day today and he’s pretty happy about that.
Your weather sounds… terrible. Cool and rainy is HARD.
I also haven’t gotten all my Christmas stuff up yet but I’m still planning to. Wow, I really better get a move on. Things really got away from me this year. Oh, but you get BONUS POINTS for wearing a Grinch onesie- that makes up for everything.
We never get a full week of rain like this. Only very rarely. I hope there isn’t any flooding or land slides. AND! That me and my kids don’t go crazy. They are stoked for the rain because it means I’m less likely to make them leave the house. Ha! I think we’ll be watching a lot of movies.
Yay, you made it! I had lunch duty today, and one of the students were making animal noises/screaming in the hall way. Like, WHY? You are in high school. Even the other students were like “what the hell?” Yep. And we have two more days! Monday, a full day, and Tuesday, a half a day. Whew. Cant’s wait.
There are few things that bother me more than kids screaming and screeching. It drives me crazy. CRAZY! I can’t believe you guys have school next week! Does anyone come? Surely you can’t actually teach anything. I hope we get to Wednesday soon.
I also received Shu’s book in the mail and I think a lot of people will be reading it over the holidays 🙂
I’m backing up trying to catch up on blogs as I’ve been mostly MIA. I laughed at how you assure your readers that you’re still dressing for the holidays when you go to work. I put up most of our decorations, but not all. There’s always a few things I forget to collect when I take everything down. Our tree was the smallest one we’ve ever had and we could only fit a fraction of the ornaments on it. Eek – a whole week of rain?