Aug 18 2007
T minus five days and counting
and I’m both excited about the new school year and dreading it.
I’ve loved being home with Zoe so much these last four months. She’s so easygoing like her brother was as a baby. She rolls over, smiles, definitely recognizes John, AJ and me.
AJ went to school two days a week for the summer and we also had a good time when he was home. He mostly loved it—although I don’t think he liked that I made him rest most days for at least an hour. He took some naps, so I know the down time was needed. He rests at school, so it’s not like I was having him do something unfamiliar. He had some problems with the kids at school because he wasn’t there everyday. Even so, he’s survived and I expect things will go back to normal once he’s back to his normal schedule. He took swimming lessons this summer and went from hesitant to dunk his head to almost swimming. We’ll definitely continue them through the fall/winter so he doesn’t lose the comfort he’s found in the water.
John looks and feels great. He and AJ started exercising each night before bed. They start with stretches and do sit ups and pushups. It’s how they unwind before bed. AJ loves it and I’m pretty sure John does too! He’s down more than 100 pounds from his surgery last September. I’m really proud of him.
I’ve got an appointment with an endocrinologist at Hershey in September to see if there’s any better way to treat my PCOS than what we’ve been doing so far (just birth control). It used to be that the choices were BCP or metformin if you’re trying to get pregnant. I’ve heard that it may be better to continue metformin therapy, although I haven’t really heard why or seen many positive effects when I’ve taken it while trying to get pregnant, so he’ll have to convince me it’s worth it and come up with a better way for me to deal with the nasty side effects.
School should be interesting this year, we’re making a bunch of changes for the better. Although the schedule I received in the mail doesn’t show it, I’ve heard that the library will be closed every other day for a period for me to monitor in-school suspension. I am frustrated that this has to happen, but I guess that’s just the way it’ll be. They keep cutting teachers so there aren’t enough people to do this. I know that they don’t pull the librarian at Roosevelt for ISS—or at least, they haven’t in the past. The Valley librarian does lunch duty but not ISS. High school librarian gets lunch and a planning period every day.
We’ve got an independent reading period each morning this year. I’m not entirely sure how it’ll be implemented or how the principal will know that all teachers are really doing it. I hope he’s able to be more visible than his predecessors—especially first thing in the morning. It seems that the office is always slam packed with problems then, so it will be difficult. The literacy committee will be working on logistics, so hopefully we can help to monitor that and ensure it’s really happening. I really hope the principal will tell all teachers that everyone (including faculty and administrators) should be reading at that time.
