We arrived home on Tuesday, July 31, about 11PM. We managed to roll into bed around midnight and slept like the dead for about 9 hours. I felt pretty good on Wednesday. I even went to work for awhile and we went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as a family on Wednesday night. Again, we fell into bed and slept like the dead though. :-)
The adjustment to time zone this direction has been easier for me. However, I have noticed that I generally have an easier time gaining time than losing it. When I went to California several years ago, I had no trouble adjusting to the time on the West coast, but it took me a few days to readjust to home. I always have an easier time with the fall time change (CDST to CST) than I do with the spring time change. Good info to have...it tells me that I need to schedule in a day or two to adjust to time zones on the way to Europe, but I can come home at the last minute and be able to adjust easily without needing to rest up a couple of days when I get back.
On Thursday and Friday, I had responsibilities at school for the new school year and so I got up and leisurely got ready for an afternoon at school each day. My letter to parents is written and my room is arranged the way I want it. Now to work on items of substance for my curriculum.
This weekend was a "sales tax free" weekend on clothing, shoes and school supplies, so Friday afternoon, the girls and I headed to the mall for back to school shopping. We shopped for about 10 hours. Whew! The good news is that Eleanor is now able to fit into the junior department--wearing 00 jeans. I didn't even know they made a size that small. She is excited that she isn't stuck in the children's department any more. We shopped for shoes for Eleanor on Saturday and for a few accessories for all of the girls as well. All of the girls got cute things, with accessories, and I think we are finished with that...at least for now.
I start school tomorrow and need to spend some time today getting ready--both at school and at home. I bought myself a new desk chair at Big Lots yesterday because my personal desk chair was broken by someone. It's hard to know who with all the floating teachers and substitutes that come through my room. Hopefully this one will be a little hardier.
I need to download the CPS for Powerpoint program onto my desktop at school so that I can edit powerpoints for the first week or so. When I went up on Saturday night, it looked like they had hooked up all my new equipment, although I did not try to take anything for a test drive yet. I don't want to mess anything up! I think I'll check on that again this afternoon while Olivia is at a birthday party.
...I'll do the "at school" part tomorrow. When I was there on Saturday evening, the girls left my ID with the scan code to get in the building in my classroom. Oh well. I was able to finish my opening powerpoint/quiz for the year from home since I had my USB flash drive.
Hope to go to bed early. 6:00AM will come early, especially when I'm no longer used to it!
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