Busy, Crazy Week

Well lets start with my job. For those of you who don't know I teach 8th grade science at Granbury Middle School and I love it! Unfortunatly, we haven't exactly had great TAKS scores the last year, so we are really working to fix that. Anyway, we took a benchmark a couple weeks ago to see how the students were doing and it wasn't good. In fact it was horrible. Its never good to find out all the work you are putting into your job isn't helping the way you think it is. At any rate, I spent the better part of the week working on tutorial schedules for the 100+ students who need more work in science. Staring at a computer screen and trying to place 100 students in the right group with the right teacher, at the right time, is not fun! We did finally get it all worked out but now we have some elective teachers who aren't so happy because they won't see their students for 6 weeks! Let's just say I am REALLY looking forward to May!!

Ok, so that was a general breakdown of my week at school, but I had a very trying day in particular on Tuesday. Tuesday was our Reading TAKS test. I gave the test to 11 students who needed to be basically away from all other students and distractions. They were put into mini rooms where they couldn't see anyone else. At any rate, it was a VERY LONG DAY! After school, I went to pick up the girls and I locked my keys in the car! Again. I had done it before a couple weeks ago. Luckily, Lynlee's teacher was sweet enough to go to the baseball field and get a key from Aaron. So Lynlee, Rylan, and I took Ms. Kayla to dinner. When we finally got home, both girls were fussy because they were off their schedules. But such is life I guess.

Aaron has been super busy with baseball this week. He had another tournament this weekend, so he hasn't been home basically since Wednesday. I did get to go watch his game last night because his mom is here for the weekend and she stayed with the girls. It was nice to have a kid free evening. I went up to Ft. Worth and did some shopping then made it back in time for Aaron's last game of the night. They ended up tying 5-5 when time ran out. He did admit tonight that he is actually tired of baseball! I thought that day would never happen. I'm sure he will love it again by Monday, but first he will need some sleep.