Teaching Kindergarten

Well, it's been a while. No, I am not considering slacking this blog off. Yes, I have been a tad to busy, even for me.

Let me just sum up. I started substitute teaching in kindergarten last week. Enough said. This could be the end of this blog, and probably should be, because it's 10:30 at night, I haven't been sleeping much and I am getting up at 5:00 am to go running. (Another blog, later)

But alas, I feel compelled to tell a bit more. When Adam and I first moved down to Houston, he had Daddy Duty quite often. I worked teaching third grade full time and he had quite a bit of time off. One day, he was strolling through Wal-Mart with a 10 month old Spencer along for the ride. As the story goes, Adam spotted another adorable-looking tiny tot that looked strikingly similar to Spencer. He does what any normal person would do, and asks the mom and dad if he can take a picture of their baby and send it to his wife. (I'm surprised they didn't just wheel their cart away then!) Thankfully they got to chatting and found out that they were also from Iowa and oddly enough, Adam went to school with one of their relations. SMALL WORLD! They were a great couple, she taught and he liked to go ocean fishing. We hit it off. Unfortunately, time, busy schedules, and you know the drill, we didn't hang out much anymore. Bummer.

Anyway, that was a great story...what does that have to do with teaching kindergarten??? Well, that same great friend, the teacher, the mother of the look-alike baby, called me up because she had an upcoming surgery and had to be out for four to six weeks, could I fill in? Well, I told her sure, I'd have to talk to Adam and my mother-in-law to see if we could work it out logistically with taking care of the kids and getting them to and from school and all. Also, I teach a sports class and a mommy and me class at Life Time Fitness I just couldn't walk away from. But, we worked it all out. We have a schedule. Between my mother-in-law, Deb and Adam, we have childcare all lined up and another sub is stepping in on the Tuesday and Wednesday mornings that I teach at LTF.

It is a busy schedule. Errands have to be done after work. (What!?!?) This week I have all but one night booked. But next week is Spring Break! Maybe I will get more blogging done, I have ten other posts floating around in my head that need to get written or they might cause brain hemorrhaging. Things will be all right. I promised myself.

I just hope they fix the thermostat in my classroom. After suffering immeasurably yesterday, I complained and got one of those air temp thing-ys and it read 55 degrees. NOT cool.