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Glad the day is over!

February 19th, 2005 at 03:11 am

Ughh! What a day. I had a horribly hard time getting myself out of bed this morning. Then when I got to school/work I was feeling miserable. We have a shortened worship, and our principal decides to have all the kids go to the rooms 15 minutes early (due to all the expensive photography equipment in the lunch room)- um, thanks, nice to NOT have a chance to use the bathroom before my uninteruppted qualtiy time with 11 children ensue for the next 8 hours (did I mention, no aide whatsoever today.)

Get the kids settled down. Have worship, kids recite memory verse. Then we have the closing prayer - and of course its a PITB because several of my studetns just WON'T hold hands right or keep their eyes closed - which is the main reason I cut back on doing closing prayer circle to just once a week. Get the kids started on their work. Five minutes later, get called to the lunchroom/All-purpose room for class pictures. Ugh - I look like a balloon - don't even get to stand behind my kids - nope, right out there in full view. I hope that that black and white version was WAY distorted.

Get the kids back to the room. Have about 10 minutes work time before recess. Get the kids back from recess, play Spell Ball. It's time for lunch. Lunch prayer is just finished. Little girl pipes up and says "M put his hand up my skirt during prayer!" Arghh! Lord help me! Get the rest of the class to the lunchroom. Make sure the two students involved are NOT seated next to each other. Heat up the food of another student who's parent sent microwavable only food -even though she knows that we teachers are NOT supposed to microwave food for students - but says that the church secretary will do it -- of course, said church secretary isn't there at lunch time. Tell principal what happened during lunch prayer. She talks to both of the students involved. Student "M" ends up getting sent home (of course he remained with me through lunch time and through lunch recess.) It seems like one student after another just can't keep their hands to themself (though thankfully not to the same extent as "M"!) It's 11:30 a.m. I am feeling yuckier than something the cat drug in, and am dealing with all this. All I want to do is go home and be done with it!

Luckily the rest of the afternoon went okay. My second graders read their books to the 1st - 4th graders, which went pretty well. After school the dad of the little girl student told me that he thought we'd overreacted to the whole thing, and that it could have just been let to blow over. I thought of it later, but okay, yeah YOU might feel this way, but how am I or my principal supposed to know which parents would want something like this to just "blow over" and which ones would raise holy hockey stick if not much was done? I know that *I* would be upset if some little boy stuck his hand up my daughters skirt - no matter if he was *just* 7 years old! The dad also said something about his not being on the school board. What is he trying to imply? That he'd try to do something about my job or my principal's job because of what he feels was an "overreaction"? Ha! I'd love to see him try - especially since neither one of us are asking to be rehired next year!!!!

Okay, so not to let you know that I'm anxious or anything - but -- only 60 days left!!!!!!!!

Ordered "Giggle, Gaggle, Quack" "Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type" "No, David" and "Henry and Mudge and the Friendly Cat" from Scholastic for my end-of-year presents. I used up all of the bonus points that I had earned this year - so spent no money - just time and effort. There weren't any good books before Christmas, so I wasn't able to give my traditional book at Christmas - so I decided to give two books at the end of the year instead of just one. (My second graders already have "Giggle, Giggle, Quack" because I gave it to them last year - so they're getting the Henry and Mudge book.) My second graders were surprised that they didn't get a book from me at Christmas - though I still did give them something that wasn't mindless - an art set (from the dollar store - but still, it was something to keep their minds occupied during the Christmas break.)

Oh, almost forgot. I found out today that I'll be getting a new first grade boy on Tuesday. I am praying that he will be an Eric or a William or a Toby -- and NOT be a Trenton or a Christopher(shudder! -esp. when combined with my "M") or heaven forbid -- a Jessie James!!! I had one new student added the second week of school who turned out to be a joy - so I'm hoping I'll be lucky and have a second joyful addition.

When I finally got out of work today, I had HUGE cravings for comfort food - as well as food that satisfies when you're not feeling well. So, I stopped by Albertsons. And, well, I ordered again from Pizza Hut. Oy vey! What am I going to do with myself? At least I'll probably be staying in the next couple of days and not spending any money - so maybe I can make up for it.

Spending Log:
Today:
Albertsons: $12.56 (food)
Pizza Hut: $13.50 (pizza)

Total: $26.06

Ugh.

So NOT Keeping It Frugal in Texas, Frown
Laura

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