When It Rains, It Pours

I need an umbrella for all that has been raining down on me this week!  I feel like Winnie the Pooh and the Rainy day.  

This rain started with the news that my great uncle had passed away.  He was in his 80s, but was still difficult.
The monsoon came when I took my daughter, Raegan, to the Dr. on Tuesday to get a CT Scan.  She has had a misshapen head since birth and wore a helmet for about a year.  Her pediatrician was concerned that it wasn't getting 100% better and wanted us to get a specialists opinion.  Well when the results came back, she has premature fusion of her skull plates.  This is why her head shape isn't improving.  To fix it requires surgery.  This mama didn't like hearing that!  They will do a cranioplasty and remove a portion of her skull, reshape it, turn it 180 degrees and reattach it.  My child's brain being exposed....NOT COOL!

I know that if we don't fix it, there will be cognitive problems later, so I am just trusting the Lord is going to  take care of her.   I realize now, that my new position is a blessing from Him.  If I had my own classroom, I would still take time off to be with her, but it would be much more stressful to prepare lessons for a sub and prep my kids for a week long absence.

Yesterday the tsunami hit when my aunt told us that her Dr. found a small lump in her breast and the test confirmed that it is breast cancer.  She told us it was small and was caught very early and a lumpectomy would be performed and she would have radiation.  This was a huge shock to our entire family.

On a more postive note, I do have a freebie for those of you who stuck with through this whole depressing post!  I have my word wall cards for 2nd grade.  They include, math, high frequency, social studies, and science words.

 Tomorrow is Friday, YAY!!!!!!!!!

Raining On My Parade

I have learned with my new job that there are going to be ups and downs.  I went from feeling great yesterday to feeling like crap today! I have not felt like this in several years.  I guess the good news is, I am growing.  Becoming better at something isn't always comfortable, and boy was I uncomfortable today!  Huge growth has got to be coming, right?!?!?!

In more positive news, my 2nd grade team is great!  We are using the Lucy Calkins Writing Workshop this year county wide and my team asked me to do a model lesson for them!  It takes a great teacher to admit when they need help in an area, and lucky me, I have a whole grade level of them!

Obviously I needed to have my pride knocked down a few notches and am going to let God show me what He wants in this situation!  Tomorrow is a new day, thank goodness!!!!

My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!!!

My name may as well be Alexander today!  We have all read the book and I definitely identified with the main character today!

This week I have been presenting at my districts Common Core summer institute and this morning when I woke up I knew it was going to be a rough one.  I went in to get the girls up and they had both wet their beds.  UGH! I had to get their beds changed (in addition to the normal tasks in the same amount of time!) and I thought to myself, this is going to be a bad day.

As I got on the interstate traffic was flowing good and I was feeling better about the day.  Move ahead 10 min and the interstate turned into a parking lot!  I was sitting there watching the clock tick by and knew I was going to be late.  I decided to get off the interstate at the next exit.  I got over in the far right lane and looked to see if the exit lane was clear and it looked clear to me, but 2.3 seconds after I started over into the lane, WHAM! I tapped the car that apparently was in the lane.  Double UGH!!!!

So about an hour later I made it to my training and the day was a day.  Glad its over and glad I am in the profession that pays me so well that I can afford my little accident today ok.

Shout out to my hubs who came right away and kept me calm and then made me a delicious dinner of chicken fried steak with sawmill gravy, garlic red skinned mashed potatoes, and fried okra.  I love my southern food!

Can anyone else relate???  Share your bad day with the blog world :)