Good morning, lOves!
Great news!! I was flipping out over my schedule this time yesterday for *nothing.* As I was working on my calendar, I noticed that I had one of the Pod File trip dates wrong. It wasn't on Dec 5th, but the following week. That was a huge relief. I spent my morning working on the lesson plan for Monday. Lauren texted me in the afternoon that the group didn't have enough kids signed up for that date to go forward. The plus side is that I now have a lesson pretty much prepped for December 12. The bad news is I lost a day's pay. Not great this time of year. But overall, my sanity needs the time to recuperate and rejuvenate to be ready for the next *not-going-to-count-the weeks-until Christmas.*
Not much excitement yesterday-- I tidied my desk, shredded a bunch of paperwork/health insurance stuff from 2003-2004 that I found. I'm a little bummed about the lesson being postponed. I came up with a couple of cute activities. We were going to have a STEM activity of making beaver lodges out of sticks, mud, and salt clay. Then we were going to make the haystack pretzel cookies, but call them beaver lodges. I made up my own Beaver Lodge relay race to play before we ended the day with outdoor/human-sized shelter building.
It will keep until December, but I was excited about it. Oh well!
I cleaned for my friend and then had a little time to scrap my AJ week 4 page. I have to move that on Saturday. *scribbles that on my calendar so I don't forget*
My mom is coming up here today to do some online Christmas shopping. That's always "interesting." She will bring up a handwritten list of the links the family has sent to her for gift ideas. Meanwhile, everyone in my family is saying that they don't want "stuff," yet everyone in my family also wants ideas of what to get each other. You see the conundrum, right?
Hey, if you could send good thoughts to my BFF, she just texted me that she got an abnormal pap result. It's in her portal (gawd, I hate the portal) and is waiting to hear from the doctor. It has been literally a year since she got the breast cancer diagnosis (but is all clear!!). It's giving her a sense of PTSD, which I understand completely. I asked her if she had googled the results yet (of course she did!), and it's usually nothing/non-cancerous.
But it's stressful. I reminded her that I had a bunch of abnormal paps and had to have cryosurgery, but none were ever cancerous.
However. None of that will help until she speaks to the doctor. So yeah-- good thoughts to her are appreciated!
Thank you!
xoxo
Great news!! I was flipping out over my schedule this time yesterday for *nothing.* As I was working on my calendar, I noticed that I had one of the Pod File trip dates wrong. It wasn't on Dec 5th, but the following week. That was a huge relief. I spent my morning working on the lesson plan for Monday. Lauren texted me in the afternoon that the group didn't have enough kids signed up for that date to go forward. The plus side is that I now have a lesson pretty much prepped for December 12. The bad news is I lost a day's pay. Not great this time of year. But overall, my sanity needs the time to recuperate and rejuvenate to be ready for the next *not-going-to-count-the weeks-until Christmas.*
Not much excitement yesterday-- I tidied my desk, shredded a bunch of paperwork/health insurance stuff from 2003-2004 that I found. I'm a little bummed about the lesson being postponed. I came up with a couple of cute activities. We were going to have a STEM activity of making beaver lodges out of sticks, mud, and salt clay. Then we were going to make the haystack pretzel cookies, but call them beaver lodges. I made up my own Beaver Lodge relay race to play before we ended the day with outdoor/human-sized shelter building.
It will keep until December, but I was excited about it. Oh well!
I cleaned for my friend and then had a little time to scrap my AJ week 4 page. I have to move that on Saturday. *scribbles that on my calendar so I don't forget*
My mom is coming up here today to do some online Christmas shopping. That's always "interesting." She will bring up a handwritten list of the links the family has sent to her for gift ideas. Meanwhile, everyone in my family is saying that they don't want "stuff," yet everyone in my family also wants ideas of what to get each other. You see the conundrum, right?
Hey, if you could send good thoughts to my BFF, she just texted me that she got an abnormal pap result. It's in her portal (gawd, I hate the portal) and is waiting to hear from the doctor. It has been literally a year since she got the breast cancer diagnosis (but is all clear!!). It's giving her a sense of PTSD, which I understand completely. I asked her if she had googled the results yet (of course she did!), and it's usually nothing/non-cancerous.
But it's stressful. I reminded her that I had a bunch of abnormal paps and had to have cryosurgery, but none were ever cancerous.
However. None of that will help until she speaks to the doctor. So yeah-- good thoughts to her are appreciated!
Thank you!
xoxo
If we were to get a pet cow, it would be a Scottish Highland Cow. They're so cute. But yes, this cow had its best life. It was fed all day long and happy and treated very well. Local farmer, huge fields and all the grass/hay it could want. Acres and acres to roam and run. Quick humane end. And now it will feed my family for a year. 
But I'm happy as can be now. 
Fingers crossed that doesn't happen!
