10/8/08

 I am almost too tired to think these days. By the time I get home from school (which is usually around 5), I feel like it is 10 p.m.! Will and I used to stay up until close to midnight, and now I can hardly make it until 9. Will stays up way later than I do(so late that a lot of times he falls asleep on the couch and doesn’t come into bed until 2ish ). I miss going to bed together. I used to not be able to fall asleep unless he was in the bed with me. Once Jacob was born exhaustion took over and I could fall asleep anywhere, anytime. Sometimes I take Jacob out of his co-sleeper and cuddle with him because I miss having someone in the bed with me. I have been trying to get Will to go to bed early with me, but he says there is no way he can because he has to work on finances, pay bills, and all the other stuff he used to do while we watched t.v. at night.

 I feel such a lack of quality time with him. With us both working full time jobs, I feel like we are always gone doing our separate things. When we come home it’s like we take care of Jacob for a couple hours, go to bed, and do the same thing all over again the next day. His job requires him to work a few nights a week anyway, which sucks. We are in desperate need of a date, but I don’t want to leave Jacob with anyone. I hate leaving him while I go to work, and I don’t want to leave him anymore than I already have to.

School is school. I have to have a meeting with my principal because a parent is upset with me. Why is the parent upset with me? They are mad because I assign a weekly homework packet. Their kid probably has to do 10-15 minutes of homework a night from me. They have the packet for a whole week (including the weekend) and the whole thing could be done in a little over an hour. The parent never even talked to me. The first I heard they were upset was from the principal. Ugh. I hate that. I also hate that the principal actually indulged them by setting up a meeting with me rather than having them talk to me. They think that by assigning homework packets I am just giving parents more work to do. Okay, education is a team effort- especially at the elementary level. I am horrible at confrontation, but I am not going to back down on this homework packet issue.

One of the little boys in my class has a mom who makes and sells hair bows for little girls. We are talking about the really cutesy fancy ones. The little boy (Jackson) begged him mom to make me one. He even got to pick out the colors/materials! It looks like I will be a 27 year old teacher wearing an army colored lacey hairbow in my hair tomorrow.  Some of the gifts from first graders…..

Alright…I should get work done. Somehow the task of making a banner for tomorrow’s football game got passed from the cheerleader’s to me.

Oh, and I am super excited! My friend got engaged, and asked me to be her matron of honor! She is having two matron of honors, but she asked me to be the one standing right next to her!! I have never been an moh for anyone other than family before. YAY!