Oh My Gosh!

Today has been totally exhausting! I spent the better part of four hours this morning doing a lot of heavy lifting of textbooks (most of it had to go on shelves above my head), curriculum boxes, etc., and counting all of it for the end of the year inventory. I have aching muscles all over. I also had to deal with an emotionally disturbed child, punish two kids who were messing around in class and throwing objects, make an alternative school placement, deal with "adult" teachers who were bickering over rooms, squelch a gripe fest about duty assignments for next year, retrain some students in the hall who apparently thought summer had already arrived, and crunch data on two kids which would determine whether they were retained or not---and this was all BEFORE lunch! I'm exhausted. I spent this entire afternoon in a meeting that really was a waste of my time, except for the last 30 minutes.

Tomorrow is field day, so I'll be OUTSIDE in the 90 degree weather all day, and I am not looking forward to it because I'm so tired from collecting textbooks all week. And, we have to pack sometime tonight. I may just throw stuff in a bag and see what I end up with! :-)

Summer.......I hear you calling! Or maybe it's the mint in the backyard screaming to be made into a mojito! ;-)

The picture above is from the Kindergarten field trip to the Children's Museum. Jonathan and I had a great time! This photo is from the variety show that Jonathan performed in last week. Kindergarten did a little song called "The Jack in the Box." Jonathan faked a reaction each time, and it made everyone laugh. He spent the time between "pops" staring into the box and talking to "Jack." He's such a clown!

Next week is Jonathan's Kindergarten Graduation Program. Our principal calls it Kindergarten Awards, but the faculty took pictures of the kids in caps and gowns. I got one of Jonathan - it pays to work where your kid goes to school! It's really cute, and he was excited to pose in the outfit.

I also took the kids to a water park on Tuesday night for Jonathan's T-Ball awards night--all by myself. They played in the water, Jonathan went down the scarey twisty slides (after I bribed him), and then he spent the next hour doing it over and over again! He had a blast. He kept stopping to give me a thumbs up, though. Alyssa enjoyed the splash park area. She "crawled" through the water and called it swimming. We also went to the wave pool so the kids could see what the ocean would be like in June. They really enjoyed it. Richard couldn't go that evening, but the kids and I really had a wonderful time - even though I was nervous before we left that I would lose one of them or that someone would get hurt.

Well, that's about it for us this week. Lots of busy, lots of fun. About normal! :-)