Well, the time has finally come — I have to go to work tomorrow! It’s just the one day this week, though, for a training. And then next week I go back to my school to set up the computer lab and train teachers on how to use the new student database system and maybe some other stuff. I don’t really know yet. Our school district has so many things changing this year that they are giving the students an extra four days off so the teachers can be trained and get comfortable with new curriculum. Plus we are moving back into our classrooms after having everything in storage for summer remodeling and construction.
So I do feel some anxiety about all of this. And maybe that’s part of why I’m not sleeping well. I’ve been having trouble GETTING to sleep at night, and then people and dogs and things keep waking me up either early in the morning or in the middle of the night. Or both.
Today we went to the middle school and registered our two older kids for the school bus (new this year, because we moved) and paid their school fees (fortunately not excessive). And we got our youngest daughter’s information packet in the mail, with her class assignment. So we are getting ready to start school for them, too! The eldest is at her same middle school, our sixth grader is just starting middle school, and the youngest is starting third grade at her same elementary school. So not too much has changed for them, although their schools have been under construction this summer, too.
Did we do everything we wanted to do this summer? Of course not. But we did the big ones: our family trip and the move to the apartment. We are not quite as settled as I’d like to be before school starts, but we’re getting there. One step at a time.
