The pic says it all!

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It doesn’t help that we had freezing rain last night and this morning so I was hoping for at least a delay, but all in all today was a crappy Monday! It appears that I’m only allowed one good day at school/work at a time. Thursday was awful, Friday good, today treacherous!! They just DON’T listen to me!! There are a few bad apples in every class that do anything they can to disrupt and get the whole class off task. By period three my patients were already expired! Then period four I noticed that the teacher whose room I teach in had hidden all the extra text books. It bothered me because last week she mentioned that she thought books were dissappearing but I told her that I had just handed out books of their very own recently. Up until that time, they were simply borrowing a book for class but not bringing it home. So now I know she must not have thought my efforts to be enough, because she went the extra step to hide the books. And of course, 2 of them were books that were actually signed out by my students that they were too lazy to carry back and forth so they left them in the room. I had warned them against this. GRRRR

Between schools I grocery shopped and came home to take care of the groceries and then I went to teach my class in the Middle School. Only when I got there, I realized I had left the new vocabulary lists at the High School! So last minute change of plans I had to pull something out of a hat. It went o.k. though…if you could get past the noise while they were working in pairs or groups of three on verb puzzles and Spanish noun Memory. This here is the biggest reason why I am not a good teacher!!! Not the lack of organization because today was an exception. Organization is something I’ve successfully improved on. What I haven’t mastered is keeping the students quiet, respectful and in control. I correct them verbally, I call their parents and put comments on their report cards, they get a participation grade that takes off for poor behavior…but all this is still not enough!! I just don’t have the air about me of someone who deserves/demands respect (obviously).

TGIF

Thank God tonight is over!! Whew!!

I was ultra prepared for dress rehearsal after school.  I went to three different stores during my school break just to get the right size pink tights (the final piece for costumes needed). I had a plan. Riss packed all her costume and shoes. I packed a snack, coloring books and crayons for Kev and figured we would leave at 3:30 when he got off the bus and grab an early dinner on the way since I hadn’t had lunch and the kids are always hungry after school.

3:25 and the phone rings. It’s Kev’s teacher and we had a long talk that lasted until Kev got off the bus. But since he had a substitute bus driver, it was 3:45 and we didn’t have time to get eats! Also I had no gas but we didn’t have time to stop. We were 5 mins. late as it was.

Well we couldn’t really color because it was dark but he was rather patient…at least for the first couple of hours. Then he was hungry and bored and he didn’t like the music. I was starving too and by 6:30 when we left the church where the recital is held, I was just as grumpy as Kev.

So a trip to the gas station (I’ll have to go again tomorrow cuz I only had $10 to spare on me) and through a drive thru and home I came. Then Pauly did something absolutely unbelievable! He’s my 1 yr. old pug for those of you who don’t know my fur babies. I was sitting here on my bed with my laptop, about to write a blog and check emails and he jumps up. Very nomal. Then I see him lift his leg and pee all over Kev’s backpack that was on my bed and my bed of course!!! WTF??? Are you kidding me?? Did he really just do that???

So had to change the covers and throw a load in the wash and Gwen is Grumpy! Thank God it’s Friday night. Tomorrow night will be just the same as it is dance recital night, but I have the rest of the night and all day tomorrow to lounge in my jammies. It’s sooo darn cold out!

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Yesterday..all my troubles seemed so far away!

LOL I had no title so I was just going to talk about my day yesterday and then the song popped in my head!

Anyway back to my day yesterday. I can’t believe I didn’t have time to blog. And the thing is- last night I would’ve like to because I had some deep thoughts (again!) in my head. But at the same time, when I finally got the chance it was after 10:00 and I was tired and knew that if I started blogging I could be up all night!

I felt really lousy yesterday, PMS strikes I believe. I didn’t take a break between classes today to try to get myself organized and then I had a parent meeting at the end of the school day.  When we got home from school I quickly tidied up and did the dishes because me and dd (Riss) were getting our hair done at 4:30 and the hair dresser is a friend of mine and she comes to us. I got my hair highlighted and cut quite a bit. It really bounced the curl back and is so much lighter and not so frizzy. (the joys and pain of curly hair) Riss got her hair cut real cute with long bangs that swipe over to the side and long layers but cut a little shorter (as her hair had once again grown at least to the middle of her back).

Then Sis stopped over and we ordered dinner and tried to chat but little man (Kev) was in a real mood and “sick of hanging around girls”. Grrr! Daddy’s working a lot and Kev is frustrated. When hubby did get home, Sis and I went to Wallyworld. She had to get my Gram’s scripts and some new socks and I was out of hair gel to make my new do look good for school! LOL

By the time we got home it was 8:30 and I read to the kids and then enjoyed hubby’s company. Eventually though my tired ,old man fell asleep and I was left alone and awake with my own thoughts of inadequacy. I’ve been real down on myself about my worth as a teacher lately. I really want a job that I feel like I’m good at and I think that I’m the type of person that really needs to feel appreciated for what I do (I guess we all are in a way!) I think we all know that teachers are underappreciated. I think that the most similar job for being underappreciated happens to be my “other” full time job “Parent”

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