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+ Some Days you Throw it all in the Bathroom Trash

7:00 am- Wake up & Realize you woke up 30 minute late. Rush around the house throwing yourself and your bag together. Feed the dogs. Feed the fish. Pack a Trader Joes salad for lunch.

8:15 am- Start your jeep only to realize your phone is at 15% and your only phone charger is inside. Turn off the Jeep. Unlock the house and race inside to grab your charger. Start the Jeep and go!

8:30 am- Get on the freeway only to realize there is an abnormal amount of traffic and you will be late.

8:50 am- Arrive at work, only 10 minutes late phew. You still have time to prep before class. Walk to the equipment shed and begin pulling out all needed equipment for the day. Thank heavens you already pulled together the lesson plans before you left work the day prior.

11:45 am- After teaching three classes break for lunch. Wait impatiently to hear from your realtor on a house offer you made the night before. Make small talk with teachers in the lounge to seem stress free and put together. Spill ranch dressing on your shirt. Scarf down your remaining lunch in ten minutes.

12:45pm- Finally hear back from your realtor. Her text pops up on your fit bit as you are in the middle of teaching. Text reads, “They accepted a different offer, it wasn’t meant to be” Mourn your dream house for 30 seconds and snap back to reality as you dodge a frisbee headed straight for your head.

1:05pm- Walk your largest class back to their homeroom. Have a silent party to yourself because all students were on task and the class went smoother than normal. Head to pick up your next class and say a silent mantra in your head, “only two more classes, may this class go as great as the previous”

1:50pm- It takes all you have not to snap on your class that has been off task, loud, and disruptive. Signal all students to clean up, as you do this you notice one student is standing in the middle of the black top, surrounded by students throwing up everywhere.

1:51pm- Rush over and LOUDLY tell all students to give their classmate some space while the rest of us head back to class. Panic for :02 seconds….rush over to a yard duty and ask them to stand with the student while you take the others back to class. Explain to the students why it is respectful to give other students space and not draw attention to events in which are causing another student to feel ashamed.

2:00pm- Pick up your last class and head to the gym. Walk into the gym only to be met by people of the church cleaning up your equipment telling you they need the gym for an event and you need to hold class else where. Take a deep breath, and lead the children outside.

2:03pm- Give up on today. Instruct children to have free play using any equipment from the shed. Tell them it is because they have been awesome, and they have earned it. When in reality it is because you have hit your breaking point and need some wiggle room to breathe.

3:45pm- Arrive home. Let out the dogs. Put away your bag and left over lunch. Pull out your laptop for homework. Do the dishes.

4:45pm- Turn on the shower, zone out into the bathroom mirror as the water warms up. Think to yourself, I will take a quick shower, work on homework, start cooking dinner, then head to bed around 10:00pm.

4:46pm- Throw all your plans in the bathroom trashcan. Switch the water to the faucet. Draw yourself a bath, pour yourself a glass of Bogle Essential Red, pick out a Lush Bath Bomb and prepare to unwind.

5:30pm- As you throw on comfy clothes after the bath, call your husband who is still at the gym. Tell him you are ordering a pizza and can’t wait for him to get home so you can catch up on American Horror Story.

6:30pm- Curl up on the couch with more wine, pizza, your husband, and three dogs. Breathe a sigh of relief because you know you will be in bed by 8:30pm and tomorrow will be a better day…..

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One Comment

  1. Hi Dusty! Thank you for sharing this cause just by reading through your day, I can just imagine to feel how exhausted you must be at the end of your day. Just like you, by the time it hits 8:30, I’m already ready for bed.
    It’s really nice to see that you always try to make time for yourself and for your family. I would love to see some pictures of your dogs in the future!! At the end of my day, I also love to end it with some binge watching, although currently my show is Suits.

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