The dust begins to settle…

At least from the whirlwind that I have stirred up from transferring over to a school where I am traveling about 40 miles round trip each day.  A little more mileage and gas than we wanted to spend on, but well worth it in my eyes.

Mommy duties are starting to settle into their routine.  I wake up with the children in the morning and get them ready.  I then get ready.  I make my lunch, and sometimes Leilani’s lunch.  There are days that she does not like the choice given for lunch.  The food service department are trying to save money by only offering one choice for lunch at the elementary schools.  I think that is a bit ridiculous, but I am just a parent.

We are out the door no later than 630am, where I rush the kids off to school before I go into the congestion of the freeway.  This is the first time in three years where I have put up with traffic congestion to get to work.  It is different, but the day ahead is all so well worth the drive.

I leave work about 330pm and start heading home.  Scott has picked up the responsibility of picking Leilani up from school.  Since I pass by Michael’s daycare, I have started picking him up.  I actually prefer this over the family pick up of Michael.  Leilani starts running around, doing her own thing, and then Michael thinks he can do the same.  It is quite annoying.  Then Scott wants to hold a conversation with the lovely administrators (at least the are nice and enjoy conversation!) in the front office.  This then sets me off to getting completely and utterly irritated because we are all ready to go by that point.  It can end up being a 30-45 minute ordeal!  When it is just me picking up Michael, 15 minutes tops!

We then get home around 4-430pm (depending if I left work a few minutes early) and I clean up the kitchen and start dinner.  I need to start telling Scott to empty out the dishwasher so I can load it when I get home.  I forget to leave him messages sometimes.  Sometimes, he tends to be the third child…

Teaching at the high school I graduated from seems to have brought things full circle for me.  I have wanted to give back to this community.  What better way to do this than to teach there? 

I really have been enjoying my time teaching there.  It is a hefty challenge compared to the schools in my area of Las Vegas.  I haven’t been this challenged.  My students can barely piece together an essay, but the ideas are solid.  They can write complete sentences, but not a strong topic sentence.  There is some edges to smooth out, but I am determined to see them pass their writing proficiency and my seniors graduate.

I seem to get somewhat of a positive response to my enthusiasm for writing and literature.  It will still take a lot of work.  Many complain about the notes, about the writing.  Did they forget that is what English is all about?  The writing?  The copious amounts of reading?  The responses to literature?

Such deprived students they are!  I tend to fix that. I want them to at least learn to tolerate the semantics of the English language, as well as the literature that words move within a person.  I know they are just antsy to hit the real world, but many of them actually want to get into a good college or university.  If they cannot be prepared now by writing essays and papers and reading different types of literature, I don’t know what will prepare them down the road.

I go to bed early most nights.  I am normally in bed by 8pm, but I am running a little behind tonight because Michael is eating a couple of pieces of toast, and I am trying to stick to writing once a day.  Whether it be on my professional blog or my personal blog, I intend to write at least once a day.  I do truly need to give more attention to this blog, my personal blog.  I have neglected the personal side of my writing.  I have to publish a couple of poems on here soon that I have written in the last couple of weeks.

Well, it is getting late for me, so I better sign off.  TTYL!