From summer to fall in a few hours

Wow, what a temperature change from Saturday to Sunday.  Saturday was beautiful; some sun, no rain, nice enough to hang laundry outside and wear shorts.  Sunday was gloomy, cold, no laundry outside and pants and a long sleeve shirt.  I guess we have truly entered fall.  The upcoming week shows more of the same cold and cloudy weather, with a little rain.  I am actually waiting for the rain to start, they said it would be in Appleton about 10am.  Almost 11 and no rain, but Doppler showed it, it is coming.

What a great day to bake blonde brownies and warm up the house with the oven and the home baked brownie smell.  Guess I could do some cleaning too, since I am not subbing today.  And I will be the next 2 days, so I will not have time then.

A "warm fuzzy" after a Sunday from hell

I will start with the Sunday from hell.  It started out nice, we went to church and out to brunch with the in-laws.  The intention was that after brunch, I would help one of my sister-in-laws with her math for college.  We were at the house and the other sister-in-law decided that she was going to put on a lovely shouting match complete with insults for practically everyone in the house.  I sat there and took it for probably about 20 minutes then looked at Brian and said are you ready to go??  So we left and P was upset because I was supposed to help her with her homework and her sister screwed everything up.  (Hopefully that ended up being a fight between them later.  Did I mention they are twins??)  So Brian and I left and my mother in law ended up bring P to our house for the homework help.  And I will not be going back to their house to help with homework.  The kicker here is that A will also need to take this same math class in a few weeks and was hoping that I would be able to help her as well.  Needless to say she screwed up that opportunity and all the "I'm sorry's"  in the world will not make me help her with the math.

On to the "warm fuzzy".  I got called to sub for yesterday afternoon at the school where I spent most of last year as a long term sub.  I was welcomed back by many of the teachers whom I got to know last year.  A few of them even asked when they were going to give me a job already.   The nice part was that as I was in the middle of read aloud, the principal walked in.  I thought he was there to talk to a student (I was in 5th grade).  No.  He said that he found out I was in the building and wanted to come and say HI and welcome back.  I thought that was really thoughtful of him.  How many other principals would have done that.

Then I had 4 hours at Sylvan, which was much easier than it sounds.  I didn't have nearly the amount of students I was supposed to have according to my schedule.  Hour 1-3 students.  Hour 2-2 students scheduled, I only had 1.  Hour 3-2 students, 1 given to me from another teacher because one of mine didn't show up.  Hour 4-1 student, 2 scheduled.

So after a weekend from hell, I had a great Monday which pretty much made up for it.  I also came home last night to find that one of the day cares that  I applied for called me back and wants to set up an interview.   Wish me luck there!!

First day of school

Today is the first day of school for most in the Fox Valley and here I sit at home.  Now I didn't really expect to get a subbing call on the first day of school, but I was hoping to have my own classroom.  I do still have one application out there-the posting does not close until today at 4:30pm-so there is still hope.  I even broke down and applied for a lead teacher at a day care-something I thought I would never do.  But I am realizing that I need something more permanent than subbing because I can't guarantee that I will have a nice long term subbing like I did last school year.

So, here's to hoping that something still comes through.  And knowing that I probably won't be called to sub for a few weeks.

Good luck to all of you students, parents, and teachers who have started off the year today.  If anyone needs a tutor, give me a call!!!