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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Exhausted!

I have gained a new appreciation for working moms this week... and I already recognized that their job was hard to begin with. I have gone back to work this week to complete some assessments of kids and try to wrap up some things as the school year ends. I also just started a new part-time job (more on that later), so it is only Tuesday and I am EXHAUSTED already!! I've been getting up around 5:30am and then working from about 7:30am-2:00pm at work and then doing about 3-4 more hours of work in the evenings during naptimes/bedtime and heading to bed around 11. I feel grateful I don't have to keep up this schedule for much longer!

I think the relaxing vacation we took last week has made it even harder to return to reality... and Andrew's adjustment back from "Grandma and Grandpa's magical house" where little babies sleep through the night, has also been tough. I always know the night is going to go drastically downhill when Andrew happily wakes up at 11pm after being put down to bed for the night at 8. Fortunately, Kevin's been home this week on paternity leave (the 6th week he's taken off so far- yay for Google!), so I got to take a great 2 hour nap last night from 7-9pm, which helped me survive the rest of the sleepless night.

Despite being tired, it has been an awesome week! I am loving assessing my little students and reading with them. I am also excited about my new part-time job. Our Special Ed director kind of created it and we're still working out the kinks, but I'll be a Curriculum Specialist working with a few teachers to help develop curriculum for some fully included students who need modified programs. I've been meeting with teachers this week and observing kids. I think the job is definitely going to be challenging, but also really interesting and I'll be able to do a lot of the curriculum development/consulting from home or via email.

The end of this week is going to be the crazy difficult part as school ends and I have to start packing up my classroom. It took a 14 ft truck to get all my stuff from Utah to Palo Alto, so consolidating it all is going to be quite a feat. Fortunately they're going to let me store most of my stuff in boxes at school- otherwise Kevin and I wouldn't have any space left in our tiny apartment for us! Wish me luck! :) Happy Summer vacation!

2 comments:

delikk said...

Congratulations on the part-time job. Sounds perfect for you!

The Bond Family said...

Wow! Way to get back into work! you are such a superstar. It's not easy to work and be mom, but sometimes it's really nice to do something different. I love seeing all the pics of Andrew! He is looking so big and so cute! Now go get some sleep :) Love you, miss you!