Another Break

Got the grades in last week, then my wife and I packed up her car and headed south. We're moving my parents up to a retirement community near us. They're in their 90's; they won! But now it's time for them to give up their house and move somewhere where others will do the things for them that they can no longer do for themselves. And part of it is us doing the packing & overseeing the loading for them. Plus, it'll be easier for us having them 5 miles away instead of 225 miles.

I'm leaving my students with a sub for 3 days, the longest I've ever done that. I'm trying to have a "let the chips fall where they may" attitude. I've got a good sub. I left 2 1/2 pages of lesson plans. It'll be fine. Yeah, right. We'll be back to school Thursday and have two days before a three-day weekend. Whew!

So, the ragweed down here is kicking me in the face. My mother and I are watching the Patriots beat the Bengals, my wife and my dad are cleaning out and boxing all the crap in the cabinets in his bathroom, and I just want to go lie in bed and moan for a while. Some break.