Up and down

 Things exhausting me:

Emotionally fraught conversations with parents, especially when they don't speak English and the conversation is filtered through a translator.  I had two such conversations yesterday.

Having cancer.  Turns out it keeps tiring me out.

Writing sub plans.  I have district training on Thursday and then I will have my three chemo days to write sub plans for.

Worrying about people I love.

Things lifting me:

Going to Bonneville Night at Culver's.  The 6th grade student council kids served the food and they were so cute in their blue aprons.  It was packed with Bonneville families and I loved seeing everyone.  So many kids came up and said hello to me.  Mark kept saying, "Are those your students?"  None of them were this year's students.  They just know me and it's exciting to see a teacher in the wild.  

I told Mark, "When you go with me, you're going with a celebrity."

He said, "Yeah...."

Chatting with Olivia on the phone.  She is going to come and stay with us and go to chemo with me next week.  She and Hannah schemed that we could play card games like Speed during chemo. They reasoned that Olivia would win because I would be hampered by, you know, being hooked up to IV.  This is the kind of support I'm really looking for.

My new therapist.  She is local and I like that.  (I liked my other one too, but I like that this one is in my time zone.)  She is Swedish and as I was at therapy last night, I was watching her face and I feel like she looks so familiar to me.  I finally realized she reminds me a lot of my grandpa Dahl (who was mostly Swedish) and my aunt Jennifer.  

Basically she is like my people.

She gives me lots of homework, which is kind of good news and bad news because I don't have a lot of time for homework, but I think it is helpful.