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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
The Broadway rock musical, Starlight Express, has a song at the end called, "There's a light at the end of the tunnel". I saw the musical twice, once in London, once in Las Vegas. I always liked it and bought the soundtrack and drove everyone crazy around my house.
As I finished my paperwork.... WA-HoO! The school year started appearing in my rearview mirror and that song started playing in my head.... there's a light at the end of the tunnel....I still have final grades to enter, confidential files to take to the central office, 2 more parent meetings tomorrow, and files to copy to send home to parents. HOWEVER... every last single mandated piece of paperwork associated with the laws that govern special education are DONE, DONE, DONE. Whew!
5 of the 6 students that I have are finishing up their 'formal education' so I am planning to make each one of them a blanket (this weekend?), a memory CD of the tons of photos we took this year (this weekend?), and a class cookbook with some of their favorites so they can use it once they move out on their own (this weekend?).
All the rest of my tasks are details... the students attend school through next Thursday and I have to be here on Friday. Turn in my keys, clean out my desk, take my TV home, make sure the walls are bare... maybe I will take a peek at next year's school calendar...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Went to a retirement luncheon for the teachers that are retiring from our school. As I left, I realized that it was nice to go although I tried my hardest to get out of it. I had meetings with parents this morning, 2 tomorrow and then 2 on Friday. I should finish up my paperwork and grades by the end of the week and hopefully it will be smooth sailing after that.
Room update: Last night I moved some stuff around, worked up a good sweat, threw all my dirty clothes in the bottom of my closet, closed the closet door and then realized I had punished the Voo for doing the same thing last week.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Talked to my mom today... they are on their way to Nashville to see my brother, Gregg. Talked to Stacy today and got the update of what all is going on there. Chris is in Fargo for 2 days, Voo is sick, my room is an absolute mess at home. I used painter's tape to 'draw' my fireplace on the wall in my room... I think while Chris is gone I will go ahead and hang pictures.
Monday, May 12, 2008
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Mother's Day
Sunday morning brought a phone call at 6:42 a.m. from Cortney! It was great to hear from her, I talked with her about 40 minutes, fell back into bed and the next thing I knew it was 9:15. Since church starts at 9 a.m., I figured I could still make it EXCEPT I looked in the mirror to see major bedhead and no way to just do a quick fix. Chris was sick with the cold I had passed on to him, Shelley came in the door from church wondering where we were, so we took off for Perkins for b'fast with Chris still in bed. The rest of the day we hung around the house and then I went over to Shelley's to watch some movies (Lars and the Real Girl) but fell asleep with a nice long nap for a couple hours. I came home to a homemade card from the Voo was stapled shut and I just started crying before I even got the card open! It said,Dear Mom, I love you very much that it might not seem like it some days but that is not
true. We have our ups and downs but you are my mom and I love you so much. I also
think that it is cool that I can spend time with you because other kids can't do that. You
are the best thing that happened in my life and I don't want to take that away. I always
think that when I move away to college or out of the house I feel I won't be "Home."
Because I will miss the best thing that happened in my life. I always want you to know
that know matter what even I I say "It's my life" I still love you.
I LOVE YOU
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAYWhen I read the things this 13 year old writes, it melts me and makes me so happy that I am his mom. The highlights are just like the real card that he made!
Friday, May 09, 2008
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It's MY LIFE!
Galatians 2:20 (English Standard Version)
20I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
After deciding I would stay at school as long as it took to complete some paperwork, I finally made it home a little before 10 p.m. The Voo was already in bed but Chris was up watching the History channel. I sat down to hear Chris tell me that our son uttered the above words, "It's MY life!" Chris asked Voo to sit down and watch a hockey game with him... It is an ongoing thing--- Chris loves watching sports on TV and thinks everyone else should enjoy it as much as he does. So he asked Voo about 6 times to watch the game with him, to which Voo said, 'No' and finally he said, "It's my life! I don't want to watch hockey on TV!"
So, this morning, I was still deciding whether I wanted to get out of bed when Voo came up to ask if I was picking him up early from school today for a baseball game his team is playing this afternoon. I said, "I don't know...after all, it is MY LIFE!" Of course, I yelled MY LIFE! He looked at me and started laughing. I told him it wasn't funny AT ALL! I discussed with him that he indeed might have 'a life' but it was going to be short lived if he had that attitude!
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