Windy City

Quick post

It's 6:03 a.m.  Squeezing in a moment to say hello.  Still feeling completely overwhelmed but surviving.  It's been a long week for both Paul and I.  And now his parents are visiting.  But, to be fair, they went out and grocery shopped yesterday and cooked dinner last night and are coming over early today to cook.  So, at least they are being helpful.    

Oops...PJ is crying....gotta go.  

Trying to get adjusted to the new routine at school.  I'm almost done with grading all of the projects so that should help ease things up a bit.  Now, it's just planning to teach short stories to the freshmen and Canterbury Tales to the juniors!  Bring back memories?

Kids are great.  PJ is all over the place.  Wearing me out.  Man, boys are different than girls.  Phew!  Can't leave him alone for a second.  Molly is very helpful, though, letting me know when he's up to no good.  She's such a big girl for a two year old.  We are in the middle of the whole potty training world.  Ugh....not enjoying that, but really the daycare is doing most of it, so I shouldn't complain too much.   

Ok, I think that's all I have time for.  Paul's 40th is tomorrow, so it will be a big family day here.  Plus a bbq with some of his friends.  Busy, busy.  I'm sending him golfing in the morning.  

Hope you are all well!

Drowning in a sea of projects

Ok, so barely survived first week of teaching.  1) Forgot how much talking a teacher does...my voice was killing me at the end of the week, 2) forgot how much work 2 preps are, 3) didn't realize how little time I have at school to grade, and 4) didn't realize how scatterbrained I would be with 2 kids at home.

I'm sure it will get easier, but I'm a little overwhelmed.  Paul was out of town for the most of the week.  The students turned in summer reading projects (a schoolwide requirement), so on the second day I received 145 projects that I have to grade.  Ugh....I'm not even grading them with the normal intensity that I would most things, but it's still a lot of work.  And it's just not getting done.  You are probably wondering why I'm not grading right now....because my children are playing around me as I write this.  Aren't I the world's greatest mom?  

So, what's my point?  I won't be blogging much.  I'll try and read what you are all writing, but there's no way I can fit in blogging myself unless I really get a handle on things, and I just don't see that happening.

Paul and I decided that we will basically have to work every night in order to spend time with the kids on the weekend.  Well, it's the weekend, and he's upstairs working.  Yay!  Love being an adult!

Ok, peeps....got to go.