Well, Josh had that one bad day, and now he loves kindergarten. He goes willingly and happily off to school. So that's a big relief. Now it's me who wants to drop out. Ugh. I have never had this hard a time going back to work. I mean, it's always a disappointment that summer is over, but usually I'm a little excited to get back into the routine. I start thinking about things I want to do with my students and making mental lists, I get excited to see if my older girls will like their classes, I gear up and get happy about it. This year I just can't muster up the energy. I went in today for a few hours to get my disclosures done and start to straighten up. Walking into the school was so familiar. Usually that's a good, comforting thing. Today it was an I've Spent Way Too Much Of My Life Here FREAKOUT kind of thing. The custodians moved everything out to clean the carpets over the summer, so all my stuff is stacked all over and I've got filing cabinets in the wrong place, and I just looked at it all and started to cry. Seriously, I've never done that before! I mean, not big sobbing tears, but just little poor-me tears. I love my job and I'm sure I'll get myself all sorted out really soon, but right now I'm having a hard time of it.
We've done some fun things the last week or so, trying to get it all in while we can, but it still feels like I need a few more weeks. We went camping up at Rockport, and it was this freakishly cold day, so we all froze. It was crazy. Lexi wouldn't sleep that night. She got overly tired, so she did that thing where they cry uncontrollably over nothing, and then she was happy, but she was singing Macho, Macho Man over and over again while we all cursed silently in our beds and vowed never to go camping again. I think we may still give it another go in September, but we haven't sufficiently recovered from the last one, so we'll see. We also went boating with one of Sean's friends, went to a Bee's game, went to the county fair, and went to the drive-in with Cami, Steve, Mindi, and Marilyn. Brittney and I have been staying up late every night watching movies. It's been a good summer. I'm going to try to hold on to it a little longer.
2 comments:
Hi Shannon, it sounds like you all have done a lot of camping this year. We are having our ward camp out this week. Normally I would not go, but I'm in charge of it. You guys can always come, but if you are like me, you go camping to get away form the ward. Anyway, maybe next year we are going to have to plan some stuff!
That is such a cute picture! Macho, Macho Man? Really? That is the funniest thing I've heard all day!
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