From Under the Rubble

Saturday I am starting to lose steam now. And that’s not good because Will is planning to come over later tonight yet so we can work on a paper for one of his classes. I fell a little behind in my Drama class while we were gone last weekend, so I am making that up this weekend. The professor assigned due dates throughout the term but nothing was actually due until this coming Monday at noon. I’ll get it in. It just takes some work. Fortunately, I stayed on top of things until we did travel. I’m seeing work come in from other students from weeks ago, which makes me wonder how far behind they really are! I worked 5 days in a row in mid February in the middle school. That’s where I’ve spent most of my sub time this year and I have really enjoyed it. I’m typically in the Level 2 classroom, usually working with a delightful 14 year old who has autism or another one who experiences Downs syndrome. One day I overheard one of the other associates saying to another that this boy I wor

I have a lot to write about, not the least of which is a report on our mini vacation we took over the weekend and into this week.  So, I think I will write about the trip first and then do a separate post on the other stuff. I’ve been telling the kids for awhile that sometime this summer we will go see the museums in Chicago.  I don’t really want to spend any time in Chicago itself, other than the time that we would be in the museums.  I wasn’t planning on going anywhere else.  I’ve been steadily putting aside money for our big trip in 2019 when we are going to go to the Creation Museum in Kentucky.    But…as we got into January this year, the specter  of what would have been my 25 th anniversary on Feb. 20 began to loom over me.  I really didn’t have the time to travel, but I really didn’t want to be home that day, either.  The 25 th is kind of big one.  Paul and I were already beginning to talk about taking a cruise for that anniversary before he died.  He had always wanted t

Monday Well, this day did not go as planned.  I wonder how many days of my life I can put under that category?  Probably a lot.  I was supposed to take the kids to school, go down to Knoxville and get our financials for the city done at the CPA’s (which I did) and then spend rest of the day at City Hall getting ready for tomorrow night’s meeting.  Well, it started to snow while I was in Knoxville.  And snow.  And snow.  I got home, was going to eat some lunch and head over to City Hall when I happened to glance at my phone and saw that school was dismissing at 1 pm and could elementary parents please be there by 12:45.  Yikes.  It was a nightmare getting there and back.  There were quite a few times that I experienced white out conditions while driving and I was praying the entire way.  My wipers kept freezing up.  I was just thankful that I was driving my red van today because it’s my not-nice vehicle and if I was going to get in a crash, I’d rather wreck that one.  But I’d real