Would you believe it - I am sick AGAIN! I have never been sick so often in my life. I know this time it's because I haven't slept well in the last couple of days - sore throat, swollen glands, etc. I will get through it. I have been going to bed before 10pm every night - tonight it will be even earlier. Hopefully, I will kick it before I start my holidays on Saturday - I sure don't want to be sick over my vacation time like I was last time.
The last two days have been good days at school. Today was a fun day at school; the kids were a bit hyper - although that was expected since it was a teddy bear picnic day. They all brought their teddy bears (or other stuffed animals) to school along with a blankie to sit on for the picnic. We did our usual this morning (put the teddies to one side for the first two hours) and did language and math stuff. Wouldn't you know it - it's been such nice weather for ages and today it POURED rain. So, we ended up having our teddy bear's picnic in the 'great hall' - it all worked out okay, though. I was in charge of the sack races and the kids really loved that. Pam took the kids on a teddy bear cookie hunt, Chantelle had them icing teddy bear cookies, Colleen was doing hoola hoop activities and Sam was singing with the kids. The kids had been put into five groups and they just went from one activity to the next every 12 minutes or so. We ended the picnic with them sitting on their blankies with their teddies and eating their teddy bear cookies. They all seemed to have a fun time and it was good to not worry about teaching for a while. I was going to have them do some silent reading this afternoon, but that wasn't happening with all the excitement, so I just let them have activity time for longer than usual.
You'll never guess what happened this morning - well, let me start with last night. Since my throat was really hurting me, I put a glass of orange juice on a book on my bedside table. I woke up at 3am to go pee and then had a hard time getting back to sleep - I just tried to relax and tell myself that as long as I rested, I could get through today. When my alarm went off at 6:30am, I got up and then reached over for the glass of juice and............it fell on the floor behind my night table and the juice went everywhere and the glass broke - sheesh. I didn't get upset about it - what could I do - so, I wiped up the juice, picked up the big pieces of glass and got the vacuum cleaner out and vacuumed it all up. I left everything out for the day so that everything could dry. THEN, at school, I was going to open the door for Sam and I tripped over one of the chairs that the kids had left out - I feel like such a klutz - I grazed the back of my ankle of my left leg and banged up (will likely bruise) the knee of my right leg. I sure hope that tomorrow is a better day for me! :-)
I got a text from Christine today and she and Chris (the owners of the dog I am dog-sitting) are on their way back home and told me that they should be here by Thursday night. I was pleased about that - even though Josie is not a problem - the two things that have happened (her front paw and waking me up barking at 3am) have been stressful and I really don't need any more stress right now. I do have to say she's so cute when I get home from school - she has constantly got herself wrapped around the post and is so glad to be off the chain when I get home. She comes over a number of times during the evening to get a pet from me - I sit on my comforter by the door and give her some good rubdowns - she really loves them.
Dad is really really busy with helping Grandma at this difficult time. There are so many things which need to be done - it's really amazing. Jackie has been great helping out Grandma as well. I think that Grandma will be okay with both Dad and Jackie there to support her. She will, of course, have some down times and some teary times, but I think that having this support for a month will really help her to deal with the feelings and emotions she will be experiencing at this time. Everyone who was there has left now (except for Dad and Jackie) and all have arrived home safely. So, the craziness of everyone around (which Grandma really appreciated) has calmed down and now it comes time to go through with all the paperwork and phone calls which take a lot of time.
So, it's off to bed I go with the hopes of getting a full night's sleep. I haven't got a lot for my students to do this week - we are all so 'over it' as the saying goes here, which means that we are all sick of school and just want to get on to being on holidays. So, it should be a pretty good relaxing week of sorts and I am looking forward to it, actually.
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