I still don't update this very often, now, do I? School is school--lots of pressure this year for a variety of reasons. I have good kids, but I despair of how to help some of them excel. It is an uphill battle at this point in 4 of the 5 classes. I'll be making parent phone calls tomorrow (yes, on a Saturday--and on my cell phone since I need to accomplish it and the only time I have is while sitting at Nutcracker rehearsals waiting for my daughters). Hopefully, some of these kids will wake up and salvage their grades pronto!
Eleanor was tapped into National Junior Honor Society this week. I teared up but valiantly didn't actually proceed to tears of pride (she's in the middle here with her best friends on either side of her). She then learned a hard lesson about scholastics though. The next night, she had to finish a project that she had procrastinated on and was up until 1:15AM finishing it. It looked good, but holy moly. I made her go to school the next day and when I picked her up, she wanted to go home, do her homework and go to bed. I told her no. She had to go to dance. She finished homework before ballet and then decided that ballet raises her endorphins and that was a good thing. She turned in much earlier that night and felt better today.
Eleanor learned a new classical variation tonight. She is performing at a trade show next weekend for her ballet studio and she didn't like the one that she learned last winter. Stevan taught her a variation from Cinderella tonight and she did really well learning it for the first time. He is confident she will master it by next weekend, so that is what matters. She is motivated to do so.
I joined facebook tonight. It was neat seeing some of my former students on there...two have even consented to add me as a friend. :-) That's encouraging!
I've been on Weight Watchers for about a week and a half now. Tonight was not a good night. I was doing well today and then temptation stepped into my mailbox at school in the form of a "Payday" candy bar. I love those things. I decided that I would sacrifice the points from my weekly "extra" ones that I've been trying hard not to use. Of course, that was late in the day and made me not want dinner on time. I've been snacking ever since, albeit on lower calorie and somewhat healthier things, but still too much. The only bright side is that I have far exceeded my water goal for the day. I think I'm on glass 12 at this point. I may float away soon! I've lost about 4.5 lbs. I wish it were a higher number, but I'll just keep reminding myself that it didn't come back overnight, even though it seems like it, and so it won't leave overnight either. Pity--that would be truly awesome if it would!
Tomorrow will be busy. Amelia is spending the night tonight with a friend and that throws a small kink in my daily schedule, but not enough to deny her the outing. Eleanor has dance from 11-1 and then rehearsal until 3PM. Olivia has a birthday party for a girl in her ballet class from 12:30-2:30 and then rehearsal from 3:30-5:00. Luckily, they will bring her to rehearsal since the birthday girl also has rehearsal. I need to pick up Amelia somewhere in the 1PM range, I guess. I was hoping to get a few chores done at home too, but it isn't looking very likely.
I guess I'll go back to the studio after I pick up Amelia and sit and grade papers. I have two sets of news quizzes to grade and a few make-up tests and quizzes. I also need to write the news quiz from Monday and I need to make some progress in reading "Wicked" for the teen book cafe' at school which is in about 3 weeks. It is a tough read so that needs to become a leisure reading priority as soon as I finish the no-brainer novel I've been working on--probably tomorrow night.
Maybe I can mobilize the girls to help me clean tomorrow evening...doubtful, but I can dream, can't I?
Gotta go to bed, I guess. It's midnight and the witching hour. I need sleep!
Eleanor was tapped into National Junior Honor Society this week. I teared up but valiantly didn't actually proceed to tears of pride (she's in the middle here with her best friends on either side of her). She then learned a hard lesson about scholastics though. The next night, she had to finish a project that she had procrastinated on and was up until 1:15AM finishing it. It looked good, but holy moly. I made her go to school the next day and when I picked her up, she wanted to go home, do her homework and go to bed. I told her no. She had to go to dance. She finished homework before ballet and then decided that ballet raises her endorphins and that was a good thing. She turned in much earlier that night and felt better today.
Eleanor learned a new classical variation tonight. She is performing at a trade show next weekend for her ballet studio and she didn't like the one that she learned last winter. Stevan taught her a variation from Cinderella tonight and she did really well learning it for the first time. He is confident she will master it by next weekend, so that is what matters. She is motivated to do so.
I joined facebook tonight. It was neat seeing some of my former students on there...two have even consented to add me as a friend. :-) That's encouraging!
I've been on Weight Watchers for about a week and a half now. Tonight was not a good night. I was doing well today and then temptation stepped into my mailbox at school in the form of a "Payday" candy bar. I love those things. I decided that I would sacrifice the points from my weekly "extra" ones that I've been trying hard not to use. Of course, that was late in the day and made me not want dinner on time. I've been snacking ever since, albeit on lower calorie and somewhat healthier things, but still too much. The only bright side is that I have far exceeded my water goal for the day. I think I'm on glass 12 at this point. I may float away soon! I've lost about 4.5 lbs. I wish it were a higher number, but I'll just keep reminding myself that it didn't come back overnight, even though it seems like it, and so it won't leave overnight either. Pity--that would be truly awesome if it would!
Tomorrow will be busy. Amelia is spending the night tonight with a friend and that throws a small kink in my daily schedule, but not enough to deny her the outing. Eleanor has dance from 11-1 and then rehearsal until 3PM. Olivia has a birthday party for a girl in her ballet class from 12:30-2:30 and then rehearsal from 3:30-5:00. Luckily, they will bring her to rehearsal since the birthday girl also has rehearsal. I need to pick up Amelia somewhere in the 1PM range, I guess. I was hoping to get a few chores done at home too, but it isn't looking very likely.
I guess I'll go back to the studio after I pick up Amelia and sit and grade papers. I have two sets of news quizzes to grade and a few make-up tests and quizzes. I also need to write the news quiz from Monday and I need to make some progress in reading "Wicked" for the teen book cafe' at school which is in about 3 weeks. It is a tough read so that needs to become a leisure reading priority as soon as I finish the no-brainer novel I've been working on--probably tomorrow night.
Maybe I can mobilize the girls to help me clean tomorrow evening...doubtful, but I can dream, can't I?
Gotta go to bed, I guess. It's midnight and the witching hour. I need sleep!
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