In and out of School in the Summertime

When the fall session of school starts it gets busy ...fast. We have two days of paid work before the students arrive. One and a half of those days are filled with meetings so I have about a half day of official time to get my room set up and prep and timetable.

In some ways the way this summer has gone, has benefited me. DS1 has been given a free gym pass by his potential team. He goes there each weekday for one hour to work out with someone.  It won't guarantee that he makes the team, but if he does not take advantage of what the team offers then it is a certainty that he will not make it.

So in the hour he's there, instead of wasting gas to drive home and then drive back and pick him up and drive home again ($4 fuel..yes I actually tested it lol) I just slip to the school to get a few things done off my set up/prep list.

It's given me a chance to put all the furniture back in position after the floors were waxed. Put up posters. Go through resources and toss the garbage or put on a 'give me a home' table outside my classroom door'. I got my school blog ready for fall with all the upcoming dates and arranged our fall field trips. I've typed out my Welcome Back!! Notes and made the empty template of the wall schedule so it's ready to be filled in when schedules are worked out.

All these little chores really add up in time, just like little expenditures can lead to debt.

It may not be the 'spent the whole month at the lake' that several of my coworkers do, or the 'we went away to toronto/vancouver/calgary for two weeks' as three others have done.  I just don't have their kind of money or their willingness to charge it to a CC..whichever the case may be.

I do long for something DIFFERENT in the summer but it rarely happens.

Ah well, it is what it is and I am grateful for this time to feel like, even temporarily, I am ahead.