Weekend

It was a lot.

Friday was a lot.  It started by me being a little late to work because I couldn't turn left on State Street because of construction.  How could they do this to me?!?  I went to Geneva Road and made tracks and didn't get a speeding ticket.

My computer has been struggling and needed updating and the cookies and cache cleared and none of us know how to do that.  Ask an elementary teacher about phonemic awareness and she'll talk your ear off.  Ask about cookies and cache and she'll tell you that she knows how to eat cookies and that is about all.

I finally got it figured out.

I had students fighting at recess.  As in, one of them was laid out flat, crying.  I took them both to the office.  I talked to one of them about how much bigger and stronger he is than the other kids and how he needs to be gentle.

It's a conversation I used to have with Mark regarding the triplets.

Another student was knocked over playing soccer and he refused to get up because his mom said that if his back hurts he shouldn't move.  I called his bluff and a few seconds later he hopped up and kept playing soccer.

I had an IEP during my prep and the new school psychologist was there.  It was my first real interaction with him and it was not great.  Camie got our bottles of water and put them on the conference table for us because she is just really nice like that and this guy said, "I refuse to drink anything out of a single use plastic bottle."

Then he left for his office and returned with his sticker festooned water bottle.  He didn't take one drink out of it, it was just there so he could demonstrate his moral superiority to all of us.

A simple no thanks would have sufficed, buddy.

Matt escorted one of my students to his mom's car after school because he had threatened to beat up another student after school (and I was still in the IEP meeting).  It wasn't even a student who had been fighting at recess.

And my class is easier than last year.

Saturday morning I was vacuuming classrooms at the church because it was our turn to help clean it.  I came up with a murder mystery movie plot involving someone finding a murdered corpse in a church classroom on a Saturday morning while they were vacuuming.

I just didn't want you to think that that was unproductive time for me.

We did all the things and ate a charcuterie dinner on the deck in the sunshine.  Then we watched Junior Bake Off which we may or may not prefer to the Great British Baking Show.  It is a tie.

We thought about Raelyn, whose birthday was Thursday and Linn, who died 14 years ago Saturday.  They are two people we love and who we will feel the impact of forever.

Now that Clarissa is in the Tabernacle Choir, I've started watching Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday mornings.  I usually paint my nails during it.  I love it.  It leaves me feeling uplifted and love seeing glimpses of Clarissa.

We had Clarissa and Mark for dinner and then Mark left to go to a stake devotional (!) and the rest of us took a walk.  Clarissa and I rarely meet to walk anymore since she works in Sandy.  It's nice we can at least walk on Sunday.