It is what it is

I needed a break from all the cleaning and packing and schoolwork and can hardly believe I have been going at full speed since Wednesday noon.  Covered a lot of ground, put all the fall away, packing all the chotchki stuff to make way for Christmas.  Cleaning cabinets, corners and nooks.  Getting ready for my table for Festival of Tables in a week.  Face timed the kids, shopped until I dropped, generally caught up.  Found my picnic basket that wasn't really lost, just visiting someone far away.  Glad it is back home.  Took Lucy for a walk, took someone elses boots home last night (now exchanged), caught up on schoolwork for about 5 minutes and ready to cook a turkey pot pie.  I have no Blue Arpron tonight or this week, just needed to get in a blog for November before it is December.  Back to work, dinner, piano....it is what it is and it is always too busy.

Don't have any words to describe what happened Friday in my favorite city.  How does this happen?  How do people fill themselves with so much hate that they can kill so many people and then themselves.  In prayer and tears for Paris. Started my Saturday early with ADK luncheon and auction.  On the hunt to finish my Nutcracker table for FOT on Dec. 7th. I have grades/citizenship done for 1st quarter.   Amanda & Bryce are home from European Honeymoon with so many issues that Amanda was put through.   Andrew was in London all week and flew to LasVegas on Friday to meet Brian who is running his first 10K.   Matt & Dana & Hannah are all good in Chicago.  Fighting a sinus infection (Dobos thing), was up very early to play both services with Joyful Ringers this morning. Finished laundry,working on Festival of Tables table, lesson plans, tomorrows lesson,washed my car because it was 65 today, cooking turkey veg soup for non-blue apron ...

Normal busy week at school.   Midterm test and study guide is done thanks to my math coach!!!  Red team dance chaperoning tonight, as I can check papers and chaperone at the same time.  So angry that my main route home is again being re-constructed so I go about 15 miles out of my way to not sit for a half-hour as 4 lanes are reduced to one.  C'mon!    Early call tomorrow for a bell concert for a Christmas Tea....selfish me, one day a week I could sleep in and NOT get ready immediately......no comment Carol....no comment.  It is what it is!

Spent all day in Professional Development...not bad, not bad!!! Interesting stuff, we looked at testing.  Stopped to vote, stopped to ship everything back to Amanda & Bryce that was left here from the wedding.  It would have been cheaper to book a ticket to LA.....almost.   Just off the phone with Amanda, they are in Atlanta waiting for the final leg home from a 10 hour flight from Munich.  Amanda has been in a wheelchair for 2 days.  Stress fractures in both feet?   Eye yi yi yi yi.....On the "heels" of being sick in London, and Hives in Paris...A Honeymoon soon not forgotten!  It is what it is....on my honeymoon, I had hives in Hungary....(don't ask, I think it was fear) and flu in Hungary....again...don't ask)   Suddenly recovered once we arrived in Paris and London.  I think I wasted 5 days in Hungary but don't tell Otto that.   76 degrees  today on November 3rd.   Love getting the extra time to put outdoor away.

Home from an amazing weekend in Kalamazoo's WMU homecoming.  Broncos trounced  Miami of Ohio.  Friday night our best friend of 43  Tom Englert, retired CEO of Discount was honored as a Distinguished Alumni.  What an amazing night! So proud!  Saturday, we toured restored Heritage Hall on East Campus (formerly East Hall built in 1903, WMU's first building.  Tailgated, watched a victory in the President's Box (saw Michigan weather fully, sun, clouds, storm, downpour, back to sun!)  Had great digs at Kalamazoo's downtown Radisson, drove around our old stomping grounds, caught up with Tom & Cindy, reminisced with Rick Hyde and just celebrated and re-lived the last 43 years as best friends. Two wonderful weekends in a row.   Back to reality, full moon, school tomorrow and a Blue Apron waiting to be cooked.  It is what it is!

Woke up yesterday to a sore throat.  Plodded thru the day!  Finally caught up on papers, grades, bill paying, shopping and cleaning.   Spent today doing errands.  Andrew is home for a wedding this weekend and working from home and going to the Detroit office this week for his job.  Amanda is flying home with her dress and Delta was so kind to hang it (no idea where...on the wing?)  Andrew is sick, I am sick but we rock on.  Washed my ride, posted grades for progress reports (really 5 weeks already), floors are done, house is cleaned, shopping is mostly done and wedding is on its' way!  It is what it is whether we are ready or not. It will be a wild ride and I pray we will all be well, everyone flies in safely and I can keep track of it all and work two more days.

After teaching 7 classes today (our staff is down by 4 right now and we can't get subs, so we are all teaching on our prep time),  and we are all staying extra time to do the work we usually do on our preps.  Xeroxing, lesson planning, checking papers, grades, etc.  I bring this all home anyway and spend 1-2 hours every night working after working a full day.  That is after a piano lesson, making a dessert for tomorrow night's dinner party, cooking tonight's Blue Apron dinner and working through the lesson for my 4 math classes tomorrow as we have new books this year.  I am happy to report that the layer of dust is being removed one room at a time.   Poor Lucy has not had a walk in weeks, the pool is freezing cold and the wedding is in two weeks.  I have not had the time to look at a newspaper in over a week.  It is what it is and we are Back To School.