Why I'm Awake Right Now

Yea I so can't sleep. There's way too much on my mind right now, school stuff, home stuff, friends stuff, etc. Let's talk school stuff:

I got in touch with Gretchen and she feels too badly leaving my old work mid year, so we won't be working together again just yet. :( I totally understand, but I would have loved to work with her again. You never know what the future holds, so hopefully someday we'll be reunited! I just love my Gretchen!

I have a new assistant who will be starting on Monday! Her name is Margaret and I worked with her once this year when she subed for my current aide. She's awesome with the kids and full of life and ideas, which I love cause she can actually do things on her own! However, a couple of people have made me anxious about her, cause they think she might get too "single white female" on me and we'll have a power struggle, eeek! I don't think so, but I can't help but stress about it a little.

Talking about stress, I've been working on report cards and of course that means stress. One thing that I hate about trying to get report cards done is that I haven't been able to put as much time into developing a unit and instead have had to come up with activities that the kids can complete on their own so that I can keep working one on one with kids. Like I have some ideas about things I'd like to do on fairytales, but I can't right now, because I need to finish assessing and observing!

So next week, on Margaret's second day, I'm going to a conference -- again anxiety. I know Margaret will be great and I feel SO much more comfortable knowing that she will be there rather than the aide I have now, but still. Then I have parent teacher conferences next week too -- again anxiety. Talking with the parents can be so uncomfortable.

Plus there's a meeting tomorrow about where our classrooms will be near year, and that might be stressful, cause I LOVE the room I have now and don't want to move AGAIN this summer. Another thing that has come up lately is that there might not be enough Kindergarteners next year for four teachers, but there will be enough first graders for five teachers, which means that there is a possibilty that I would have to teach first grade next year -- again anxiety.

This probably makes you think I'm like freaking out, but I'm not really, just thinking about these things and lots of other stuff. So yea. That's why I can't sleep. After next week is over I'll probably be more chill. We'll see. Lata gatas!

P.S. Five points awarded to Laurette, Jenni, and Heather for commenting on the last blog. Seriously people, if you value your place in my heart, collect your points by commenting! ;)