Week 22 - Reflection for May

May 26 - 

 We returned home today from our little weekend adventure. We had a good time and didn’t over book ourselves.

After we returned home, I went to bed for a few hours. For some reason I was extremely exhausted. After being in my room for a while, I hung out with the boys in the living room and even went on a walk with the little one. The oldest was on tap to cook dinner tonight (though he didn’t know it until I got home from the walk). We watched a movie and just hung out.

 I have a list of things (from Tuesday) that weren’t completed this week and I’m hoping to get them done this week.


May 27 - Memorial Day

 I forgot to turn off my alarm for today, so I’ve been up for a bit. Thankfully, I was able to just stay in my room for a while. Once I got up, I prepared my tea and some peanut butter toast. While the tea was brewing, I swept the kitchen, which is one of the items on my list from last week.


May 28 - 

Summer school started today. I was assigned around 32 kids this summer for Credit Recovery. My goal is to get them out of school in a pretty quick manner so I laid out ground rules today that they probably won’t like, but I’m not in this profession to be liked by everyone. It was a LONG day and I’m pooped. No work on the house (shocker).


May 29 - 

 After some drama on Tuesday, today went much smoother. A lot of kids are getting done with their programs and I’m very thankful for that. The nice thing about Credit Recovery in the summer is that once kids are done with the courses they are recovering credit from, they are done with summer school.

 Even with a smoother day, I’m still pooped today. It’s going to be an early night.


May 30 - 

 Thursday already! Shoot, this week is flying by and I’m not mad about it. The only problem with it flying by so fast is that I’m wiped out at the end of each day and I just want to sit on the loveseat and watch Downton Abbey. 


May 31 - 

The first week of summer school is over! I have 7 days left and I’m done until early August. I am ready for a break from work so I can honestly get some stuff done that I’ve neglected this school year. It’s been overly emotional and I’ve done a great job of just avoiding doing things and it’s really coming around to bite me in the bum.

 The oldest and I are headed to a concert tonight and I’m very excited. We have to travel over 2 hours to get to the venue, but it’ll be worth it, it always is.



My reflection for May is not super mind blowing. I struggle to get the home improvement projects I want to finish started or finished. I want to have confidence in my abilities and learn to do new things, but I’m also scared that I will mess up so badly that I will be out of money that I spent to do it myself and out money that I’ll have to pay someone to fix it. I would much rather pay for concert tickets than fail at a home improvement project. Perhaps I will reevaluate the things I had hoped to complete this month and figure out ways to do little parts of them and chip away at the bigger project. For instance, I desperately need to paint my kitchen. I have swatches of color in random places. I should spend some time after summer school is over and clean the walls one day. The next day I should put the primer on the walls that don’t need repairs then paint those walls. Honestly, that will take care of the majority of my kitchen being painted and I can then fret over the repairs and try to figure them out. I honestly just need time when I’m not absolutely exhausted at the end of every work day. Right now I’m either exhausted or scheduled to do something. Yes, seeing how I failed to do the biggest indoor project I wanted to complete, but now realizing a way I can take care of it actually makes me feel like this entire month wasn’t a waste of a topic.

 

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