Full Steam Ahead!

Well, this week has been crazy, and it is only Wednesday. Getting ready for school would be SO much easier if our building didn't get completely torn apart each summer. This summer it was my turn. They redesigned our office, so all my stuff is spread all over the building waiting to return to my office. Today, they finally moved my furniture back to my office, but all my materials are still in boxes all over the place. The PA system, which is supposed to be leaving my office, is still hooked up, on a dolly, and sitting right in front of my office door, so I have to walk around it. It is huge! My office got painted, but it looks splotchy in the back corner, so I guess I'll have to figure out how to decorate to mask the unevenness on the wall. They also didn't put my shelves in completely (I have one at the top, but no others), and I have no baseboards yet. So, they'll come back later to add those...........I hope. The last three days, though, we've been barcoding the district's textbooks and getting trained on how to use the tracking software. So, I haven't been around the office much anyway. Today I went by, but I could only stay a minute because they were about to wax us into the office (they are waxing all the floors and you have to let it dry for at least an hour before you can walk on it). I spent my afternoon moving textbook boxes in my bookroom instead to get ready for barcoding in the morning - tons of them @ 48 lbs. each. I'm very tired. Tomorrow I will spend my day working on books, putting them ALL back in the bookroom (about 2,200 of them) and helping arrange the main office - I'm ready for a break. I was supposed to get Friday off, but now I have to work in the morning. I'm pretty disappointed about that, but what can you do? Everyone is getting worried that things won't come together in time, but they always do. Oh, and I'm planning a presentation for staff development as well! AGH!

Jonathan survived the croup last week. He was barking like a dog, and trying to scream because he couldn't breathe. We gave him a breathing treatment and put him in the shower to get steam for about 20 minutes. It helped enough for me not to have to take him to the ER. We went to the doctor instead, and they saw us immediately. He barked for about 2 days, but he's better now. Alyssa still has a cough, but she's getting better, too. I went to the doctor Monday for a bladder infection, and they had to put me on a different medicine because they said the lab test showed the infection was resisitant to some of the ones I would have normally taken, like Cipro---which is why it came back, I guess. FUN! So, I'm taking something else that makes me sleepy, which is great for the first week back to work! :-)

The neighbors invited us for dinner tonight, so it's nice that I don't have to cook and we will get to visit. I just hope I can stay awake through dinner! ;-)

And, we're anxiously awaiting news about Richard's Dad's court date today. We are praying all goes well and that the truth will come out.