Reading my body...and listening...

Today I am listening to my body.... I have been working in my classroom (trying to get it ready to start school in less than 1 1/2 weeks)...this involves climbing and squatting and walking all over the place...plus playing taxi for my princess and the teenager...

So basically trying to wear my Superwoman cape....

It took 2 "Spoons" to walk downstairs to make my pot of coffee... I was awake...so I'm not sick...just VERY sore joints and muscles... To describe it for you... I felt like an 80 year old woman walking downstairs...

SO.... today I am making myself rest in bed and watch movies...entertaining myself also with facebook and solitaire...

I may not like it...but like I tell my children (the ones I gave birth to and the ones I teach).."You don't have to like it...you just have to do it!" :)

Remnants of Sylvie...

How do I know my princess has been in the room?

She leaves a little something behind every time she walks out of a room....kind of like what she does to everyone's heart after they meet her....

Floating like a butterfly....

My life is starting to spin out of control....that is because I have to go back to school in 18 days...


Most do not realize that it is like starting a new job each year for teachers....you have 24-27 new little faces that are unlike any other child you have taught before....And you have to get to know all of them...and their parents....
This is also the time where I begin having nightmares about everything that could go wrong in the classroom...Plus I had to organize coverage for my two amazing kiddos...which is complicated because the teenager has football practice every day 8-10am....Plus I'm going to teach a different grade this year....so you are probably saying "She must be nuts to go through this...."

...then I remember to float like a butterfly through all of my complicated crazy chaos..

Making memories...

I remember going to Deep Creek Lake and Big Bear Lake every year for the Sisler family reunion...

I remember my dad and uncles trying to take apart the pontoon for hours...trying to make it go faster...(true story)

I remember roasting marshmallows...making smores....playing with cousins...

One day, my kiddos and I will remember this week with family :)

Pure bliss...

Some people would walk into Sylvie's birthday party and think...."Complicated, Crazy, Chaos" (which it was...)

But all I see is pure bliss :)

Tired...

Some days, I wonder why I am so tired...

A princess was born...

July 6, 2001...