5k

I ran the Hoosiers Outrun Cancer 5K with two of my boys today.  It's my first real run since my injury in May.  I've been sick all week, so my chest was hurting a little and my leg tightened up, but mostly I felt ok.   Henry took off and left me.  He finished in 27 minutes and I think Harrison got 7th place overall.  Even though it took me 38 minutes to get to the finish line, I love that I got to do this run with my boys.  Hayden is not interested in this running thing at all.  I saw a lot of great friends at the race and it was for a really good cause.

Birthday

Today was my good friend Whitney's birthday.  She told me all about this last Friday night, but I forgot.  I'm a loser.  She even brought ME a present today. A handmade present!  see cute bunny below....  Again, I'm a loser.   Ok, so I'm going to make this up to her.  I swear.  Somehow.  Someway.

BTW, today sucked monkey butt.  We had really bad news at our PLC meeting, I had indoor recess duty, I had to break up a fight and call security to my room.  This is not how I wanted my day to go.  

I AM happy that Modern Family is on tonight and I'm really loving the new Mumford and Sons CD.  I love that band.

Frustration

I'm really struggling to keep up with what life is throwing at me these days.  The job is getting me down.  I have an amazing group of students this year and I feel like I haven't been able to take a breath to even enjoy them.  Third grade is test city and I hate it.  The state of Indiana should be embarrassed by all of the tests that they make these little kids take.  The paperwork is piling up and I'm pretty sure that I used an entire tree today just to keep track of student progress.

Harrison ran tonight in the rain at the county meet.  He finished 11th in 17:45.   This is 2 minutes faster than last year at the IU course.

Nap

I came home today and took a 2 hour nap.  I'm pretty sure that I was asleep before I hit the pillow.  I didn't sleep very well last night.  I've had a lot of trouble sleeping lately.  I usually wake up around 3 and finally fall back to sleep around 6.  I'm exhausted.

I'm driving to Culver, Indiana tomorrow to watch Harrison run on Saturday morning.  He's having a pretty great year in XC at North.  His best 5K time is 17:14.  He placed 2nd in the Brown County Freshman/Sophomore run a couple of weeks ago.  He's leaving school at noon tomorrow to head up to Culver.  He's pretty excited to be getting out of class for this meet.  I'm going by myself because the twins have hockey on Saturday.  I hope Culver has some decent hotels because I haven't even started looking yet.

sick kid

Got a call from Henry's school today.  He was complaining of a stomach ache this morning, but I didn't have time to throw sub plans together.   So, I put him on the bus and hoped for the best.  I think he lasted about 25 minutes.  Oh well.  

I made a checklist in my head before I left school.  

1.  disinfect house

2.  enter math CA scores

4.  go workout at the Iron Pit

5.  clean the kitchen

 Guess what?  I'm in my pajamas watching Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network.  I'm trying to find some motivation.  I think I'll take a nap.