Oh my goodness! It's been a while since I posted, but life has certainly kept on going here - at something like warp speed! Since my last post, my mother has been to visit for a week, the International Festival finally took place, a new forth grade teacher has arrived, AND I have been sick for five days, which included two of larangitis. Today, I think I'm heading toward the end of whatever kind of bug this is (general flu symptoms with an awful hacking cough) but this week has been a trial! And the weather hasn't helped - apparently this is the season of "yellow dust" which means highly toxic air that we are supposed to avoid going out in (right) and casts daylight into an ominous semi-darkness, sort of what I imagine tornado season would be like.
So with all those factors, my patience has run thin this week and I have had to catch myself several times before taking it out on the kids! For example, just now as the kids were coming back from art class in rather high spirits, and I snapped at them a little too sharply when they weren't quite during journal time. And then when they were scared into submission I realized that was ridiculous and decided we needed a few minutes of Simon Says because really, what's the point of school if it doesn't involve having fun as a class sometimes?
Oh well. School's out - so must run for now.
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