2. I'm totally winning at care packages this deployment. A box of books, dvds, and honey mustard pretzels was VERY well recieved. Hilary: 1, Deployment: 0. I hope Adam has time to shop for my birthday on this first port call. I like care packages too!
3. I keep telling myself I just need to hold on until the end of this school year. I just need to make it the last few weeks. Finish up with the kids, pack up my room, make it to PA for a Summer retreat. I am plodding on through, miserably. I just am so looking forward to having time. Time to sleep, time to enjoy being home without working on school, time to enjoy life. I want to sweep off the porch and sip lemonade. I want to take walks on cool evenings. I want to sit down and read a book. Cover to cover. And I want it to take less than 8 months to finish. Mostly, I want to sit down and take some time to myself without feeling guilty. Without feeling like I should be making a flipchart, or writing some plans, or researching for lessons, or grading papers, or....I just want to be done. I just want testing to be over, and grades to be final, and my room to be packed, and to have just one second to breathe. I just also want to finish strong, to finish as a professional, with a good attitude, and leave this school and leave the classroom on good terms. I don't want it to be that "I quit", but that "I am moving forward". I'm just over it. I'm done. Done with behavior, and paperwork, and...all of it. And then I realize it. "This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it". I need to rejoice in each day. If I gloss over the parts that are hard, I'll miss something good. I might miss the lesson. I will not get any of those days back. Rejoice. Breathe. The days won't go by any faster by wishing them away. This is the day that the Lord has ordained for us, let us rejoice that He has given us a day to do good, to produce fruit, to glorify Him. Let us take every opportunity to it's fullest extent. Let us be content and recieve God's joy. Perspective.
4. I'm in a love triangle between me, my microwave, and my DVR. If there was a fire in my house and I could save only one item, I'd die of smoke inhalation before I could decide which one to take. The stove is getting a bit jealous though, I think it's in cahoots with the empty refrigerator.
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"I'm in a love triangle between me, my microwave, and my DVR."
I miss living with you for this reason. (Among others.)
What part of PA is your retreat? We need coffee or something.
It's in Mann's Choice (White Sulphur Springs). And I'm traveling with a friend and her son. But, you've been on my mind and I was hoping you'd be in VA in July? If not, maybe we could arrange something.
I miss dropping everything for an episode of Golden Girls. And I would still come to your room and sing Kum Ba Ya to you if you couldn't sleep at night.
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