Lauren

Sorry I haven’t posted much. It’s the time of year when there just isn’t quite enough time to get things accomplished. We’ve had some workdays (Friday to today) but hiccups have happened. Today is the last workday and we have an Open House for families at 4, so no matter how today goes, the room has to be presentable by 4. (Dad, I’ll call you after 6, ok?)

Wish me luck, everyone.

That book that I’m reading about establishing good habits is pretty useful. I’m definitely in the ‘just change one small thing at a time’ category, but it feels good to work incrementally toward trying to be a person who takes care of things.

I already told you about using my heated eye mask in the early morning, and that’s working out great. It’s on when my first alarm goes off and it’s off in 20 minutes and then I actually get up because I’m massaging my eyelids. No more oversleeping!

The other thing is that waaaaaaaay back in January of 2020 when my dry eyes were discovered, I bought that horrifically expensive bottle ($173) of De 3 Dry Eye Omega Benefits snake oil. I mean fish oil. It seemed stupid and a bother, so I stopped taking it, of course. Well, I am determined to finish the bottle, even if it’s all just bunk.

I’m habit stacking with this one, too. I have a cup of coffee every morning, and now that bottle of fish oil capsules is right in the way. I can’t have my caffeine fix without swallowing three dollars worth of snake oil. I mean, snake oil. Dang it! I meant to say snake oil. Dang it! Why can’t I type ‘fish’. Huh – there it is. I can type ‘fish’. Let’s try this again – snake oil.

Never mind.

We are getting some shade shelters on the playground. They’ve been in the works for a long time, but things happen. Anyway, this past week we have not been able to use the playground except for Tuesday.

One man has been doing the work. Our facilities director and the head trustee were here on Monday when he was digging, but this guy knows his stuff. He has a tiny bobcat that’s the stand-on-the-back kind, and he does EVERYTHING with it. Giant drill bit on the front to dig 6-foot-deep holes, forklift on the front to carry metal pieces, bucket on the front to move dirt and carry cement, and the most impressive part was how he put the top of the big shelter together. He assembled it on the ground and then lifted the whole thing up – suspended off his forklift – and then attached the legs.

It’s nearly done. The children have checked in on him from the windows and worked on some ‘thank you’ pictures. God bless him for working in this heat.

Lloyd starts school today. It’s surprising because Seward schools have another week, but I guess this is what they’re doing. I pray that it is a good year for him and for everyone at Lincoln Lutheran.

As for me, we have two days left of the summer session. The children have been……. how do I say this politely and professionally? Excited. Excited in a loud fashion. In a loud, exhausting, unable-to-calm-down-for-a-millisecond excited. Yesterday was rough, and I pray today is better.

My teacher counter is always a mess. I even make a stab to tidy it up most mornings, but then children bring me things and I get things out and by 7:30, it’s a wreck again. Oh, well.

I have a huge variety of lotions. In the winter, parents bring me things for their children’s chapped hands and staff usually bring something that works for them.

Different subject: I ran into my wood-veneer door with a cart and took off a fairly large chunk of veneer. My goal is to fix it over our workdays.

Now, let’s look at my counter again….

Be careful about which lotion you choose.

I had big plans for Saturday – I woke up super-early (4), got up at 5 and made my fire and took a little walk in the ‘cool’ of the day (78), but then my gut started to feel weird and I spent the rest of the day resting. (….and close to a bathroom. Sorry for TMI.)

By Sunday I felt better, but wasn’t very motivated to do much other than church and grocery shopping.

This is the last week of our summer program. The children are done on Thursday and then we have a couple of workdays before we start up again next Wednesday. Lloyd starts school this Wednesday, so maybe it’s good that we just sat around, yes?