Friday things (and side thoughts), 5/16

I got hit by a dopamine detox (no social media on my phone) and some sort of sinus infection (eh, probably covid..who knows!?) all at once this week. Just coming off of FootGate, Sutton decided to stop sleeping again. Then, I could feel myself losing my voice by 3pm on Monday. Tuesday, no voice and a field trip. Wednesday night, the coughing started. Thursday, Scott said I really don't think you should be working today and I said It's not quite that easy and I bought Because of Winn-Dixie on Prime and a study guide for the movie on TPT. For only(!) $18, I had lesson plans for the day. (Ugh. It's a good movie. We'll watch it with the kids this summer now that we digitally own it.) 

Thursday during the day, the sinus headache started and the coughing intensified. I swear my vision blurred as I was trying to finish my report cards while I watched Winn-Dixie for the second time (remember, I teach the same thing to two different classes). I wrote my sub plans for today and strategically emailed for a sub because anyone could change my mind.. at 3pm. 

After school, I crawled into bed and paid Wells $2 (so he could buy ice cream at lunch the next day) to watch Sutton and Maverick. (Scout does fine on his own.)

Which brings me to this morning: 

I still had to take the kids to school. Wells forgot his $2 on the table, so I told him to go to my classroom and get $2 out of my desk, which brought on the tears and he was panicking because I wouldn't be at school with him today. This is why we're homeschooling next year too..I cannot stand the thought of throwing him into some random school. (Though, I guess it doesn't matter because Scott also went to look at some houses in Kansas this week and the prospects are so bad that I might as well unpack the few boxes I did pack up and we'll stay here.)

Other things:

I screwed up the reorder of Scout's prescription so I have to make a second trip to the vet this week. Errands with kids along are no joke. 

He didn't even match and that's a swimming rash guard. 

I was so sick I didn't even care on Wednesday. 

It's May so I'm dealing with the yearly influx of ants, putting cinnamon oil on the doorframes and taping down a few traps where dogs or kids can't reach them.

I did get a new Nespresso machine for a Mother's Day gift but I don't want to use it because my sense of taste and smell isn't there right now. (Our old one was a Mueller brand and it broke...we had for for about 4 years but only used it for 2 of those years off and on. Our Mueller brand Keurig-style broke too. Lesson learned.)

I've had to mute The Prosecutors' groups I'm in on Facebook because it's all Karen Read and all West Memphis 3. I think what happened to the children in the WM3 case is the worst depravity humanity has to offer. But I don't have an opinion on who did it and you can't make me. I will listen to their last episode to see what their theories are; they are currently on episode 11 of an unknown amount of episodes about the case. Maybe true crime has run its course for me...

I've also started muting or unfollowing accounts that talk about how important sleep is. I KNOW. Stop telling me to reset my rhythm and do this or do that, Alex Clark who has no small children. Yeah, I slept GREAT before 2018. Funny how that works. It just makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. Sorry, sometimes I like coffee at 4pm, Dr. Josh Axe, and it doesn't always prevent me from sleeping. It's that middle of the night jarring wake up by a toddler (and this week, from coughing) that is ruining my sleeping.

Wells has been playing soccer with the 3rd grade boys during extra recess and it's super cute. He's in 1st but we have a lot of good 3rd grade boys so they let whoever wants to play, play. 

I will miss these kids. It's really hard when they start telling you they're going to miss you.  

I took Scout for a walk by myself the other day. Maverick was not happy but I was.