It is Wednesday, and I am tired.
I am sitting at four days until the first day of the school year, and I am completely worn out already.
There have been days upon days of meetings.
There have been hours upon hours of lesson planning.
There have been pages upon pages of course descriptions, data tracking sheets, and lesson plan materials copied.
The only time I am a list person is the week before school.
Truth be told, I could probably teach tomorrow if I had to.
No, things wouldn’t be up to my standards, but I could do it.
But I’m not because my schedule may be changing, last-minute, so there may be many tweaks that need to be done . . . lesson plans to be adjusted, class folder buckets to be relabeled, binders to reorganize, and rosters to reprint . . . to name a few.
There isn’t an Easy Button when it comes to teaching.
Heaven help this over-planning, overachieving girl.
Please say a prayer for all of us education folks.
The excitement of a new school year is there, for sure, but it comes with a price – lost sleep, sore muscles from moving rearranging furniture fifty times, and headaches from looking at our computers too long each day.
Four days, y’all.
I’ve got this!
You totally got this!
I’m sure you’ve “got this” but I hope there’s not too much tweaking to be done and you get some R & R this weekend. Good luck for next week.