First Week

(This post has taken me forever because I was trying to add photos.  Blogger hates me and won't upload them.  So I give up.)

I'm one of those lucky ones who gets summer's off AND only works part time during the school year.

Even still, going back to work last week was hard.

Audric had a much harder time than I expected him to, and none of us have had much sleep.  It could be teeth, could be this outrageous heat we've had, or it could be separation anxiety, but he's taken a very long time to go to bed at night, has been WIDE awake in the middle of the night, and gotten up early.  Between all of this and fragmented naps, we almost hit a breaking point.

Daddy gets Audy up in the mornings and gets him ready to take him to the sitter's house.  Our sitter is super-woman.  Seriously.  She's like a mother's dream sitter.  She's very close to my work, only has two kids, takes them for walks, plays in their face with them all day, teaches them Spanish, and has a supportive family who is always helping her out.  I know my baby is very happy there, but it's still hard to leave him.  Sometimes he takes a nap there and sometimes he doesn't (I appreciate that she doesn't force him to.  We've had a sitter who did and that was a nightmare), so when I picked him up last week, he slept in the car on the way home a few days.  Of course, that was too short a nap to suffice, so we had a few difficult evenings.  Who knew sleep could be the glue that holds us all together?

My year isn't going to be easy.  While teaching 2-3 days a week, I'm also teaching combo classes - so mixed levels of English learners in all classes - with the same two groups of kids.  I feel like an elementary school teacher.  We've got good kids, but I think by the end of the year they are going to hate us - too much of one face everyday and they end up in all the same classes, so they end up forming their own little "gang."  The A/C has gone out for most of our school and the principal said they aren't likely to fix it anytime soon.  So our windowless, ventless classrooms that are filled to the max sort of feel like dungeons.

At least I'm not there 5 days a week, right?!

Daddy shot this video yesterday that made my week.  I've watched it a million times.  Love this kid.