Lost Again!

I keep doing it. Maybe this is not the thing for me. I just can't seem to blog on a regular basis, even though I think I would like to be a blogger.

Summer is half way through and besides getting all of my doctor and dentist appointments out of the way, my main goal has been to read as much as possible. Right now I'm reading 4 books! Maybe I can get to the point where I want to review them. But doesn't every one do that?

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Being away from work for just one day is so much work!(at least for a teacher, or this teacher). First you have to prepare to be absent with lesson plans that make sense to someone who just walks in with no knowledge of your class or students. Then when you get back, you have to sift thru what happened while you were gone. And now I'm going to be out again tomorrow for a workshop...sigh.

Before I forget...

So I thought of something the other day related to the Happiness Project and me, and now, of course I have forgotten it. I remember thinking that it was something like my own personal commandment or my own Splendid Truth, but like so many great thoughts it has dissipated into thin air - poof! Maybe someday I will learn to write things down when I think of them. Or better yet maybe I will stumble into a cloud of all my great thoughts:).

It's been how long?!

OK, I'm going to blame not blogging on reading Pillars of the Earth. Good book, but it took forever. It always feels good to add a book to my finished list. And I always look forward to picking out the next book!

Where have I been?

I fell into space for about a month and can't even recall where I have been. I definitely have not made blogging part of my routine. Maybe I should follow Gretchen Rubin's advice and just write one sentence.

Happiness comes and goes, but I want it to stay. I want to make the changes I need to make in my life. I can't believe that I can guide my own son through his shyness and learning how to make friends, yet can't seem to do that myself. Why not?

What is the first resolution that I need to make and work towards keeping?

Helping

I feel so good when I can help others, which I guess I do what I do for a living. I might not be able to make a difference everyday but I can try. I feel like I might have made a difference today.

I am reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. It is really making me think and has certainly come to me at a time when I need it, with all the changes I've been through this year. The number one priority is to think positive, happy thoughts.

Laugh

Laugh allowed, laugh aloud.
That's all:)

Blue Jacket

I looked at what I was wearing this morning and I was in all black, gray and white. So I decided to wear my blue jacket to add some color to my day (even though I wouldn't be wearing it all day).
I actually surprised my husband with his birthday present this weekend. He usually guesses correctly what I have bought, even if he hasn't asked for it. How DOES he do that? But success this time!

A Memory, a Smile

Two of my students were talking today about their favorite breakfast - sugar on toast. So I shared the story about how when I was in 6th or 7th grade I was spending the night with a friend. We stayed up really late, of course, and snuck into the kitchen to get the ingredients for sugar sandwiches - white bread, butter and sugar! I can't imagine eating one today.

2 out of 2

Today's positive thoughts are:
-there was no throwing up in the house today
-I reconnected with a friend via Facebook
It was a good day and now it is time to go to bed. I think I will stop and get a Starbuck's tomorrow on the way to school.

My positive thoughts for the day.

I've been so stressed and down. I have a student who is the most challenging I have ever had and I lack the training to deal with him. But he is not going anywhere, so I am only going to think positive thoughts. I will not let it ruin every minute of my day.

So my positive thoughts today were:
-the telephone is wonderful when you get to talk to your long distance family that you miss. I did that yesterday.
-I have the ability to remain calm in my classroom even when things are not calm around me.
-I have students who get such joy out of little things (like typing a word wrong on purpose to watch Word fix it automatically). So I need to emulate them.
-My treadmill arrived today, so I hope to walk away my stress.

I CAN do this every day.