I miss my bloooogggggg!!!!!

:(

I have been buried, swamped, worn out, sick, frustrated, tired, busy... this going back to the classroom stuff has been a HUGE transition... and not at all an easy one. I live the kids... but have had no time to really just ease into things. It has been especially difficult because we were forced to set up our classrooms from scratch over a weekend right before school started. So, we've been playing "catch up" ever since. I left today at 3:30, which for me has been unheard of. Staff meetings go until 5 and I end up there almost every day until at least 4:30. Then, Thomas has homework, I have to cook, I have to plan, do laundry, it just doesn't seem to stop. Tyler is LOVING his preschool class. Not too sure about the "extended care", but preschool rocks for him! :)

I have lesson plans for 2 weeks due tomorrow, so not on for long now... just wanted to say I MISS this blog-- and I am still adjusting... trying to stay healthy and hope to get back soon... happy for a three day weekend!! :)

Soon,
Lynn

I'm still alive

Just haven't felt like posting... or had the time to. I am struggling with the transition and my energy levels and am still working that all out. I'll be back, just gotta get a grip first. I have gotten so far behind on housework, emails, you name it... so, if I owe you an email or phone call, please forgive me... I'll get it together soon.

Blessings,
Lynn

music finds... jingles

So I thought I would post some music in tribute to Alleen, so I went in search of her favorite music and found on her blog that she had listed the Outback Steakhouse commercial-- LOL. Her sense of humor! :) So here it is for Alleen:



And, since we're doing jingles, here are a few more...



Can you believe that is for real? LOL!!!!!

And, just for memory's sake... Be a Pepper...



AND, in honor of back to school... Rubberband Man...

no title comes to mind

I'm feeling at a loss for words today although I have a lot of thoughts. Last night's orientation was chaotic, but good. It was good to meet my students... they are all adorable! I'll have 11-- and I didn't get to meet two of them-- one is out of town and the other left word that they would have to come by and pick everything up sometime this week. Our rooms are supposed to be getting painted today, so I have a day off... whew... I couldn't sleep last night between being too tired and the internal heat going on from this med. I'm on. The outdoor heat is bad enough... it's supposed to be 96 today and 97 tomorrow... YIKES!

Tonight is Tyler's orientation-- I haven't had much time to think about it, but I am excited for him. :) This will make it more real to him I think. I hope the familiar surroundings will be a good thing. I'm looking forward to being on the parent side of the table tonight. Thomas was so excited after his last night-- he has the same teacher from last year and many of the same kids in his class. I am so glad he loves school so much and hope Tyler will, too!

On a very sad note... I sat down to check my email last night after the long day and found out that a fellow-scrapbooker and someone I knew through DesignerZine and other boards passed away suddenly... just shocking. She was only 48 and has two boys. She had such a quick sense of humor and was just one of those people who was so full of life. It is just so hard to believe she is gone. Life is so short and so fast... just have no other words... I'll be thinking of you, Alleen.

Lynn

time...

There's never enough and I honestly don't have much right now, just popping on. I've been working on classroom prep every day and I missed my music finds posts last week. :( First time ever. I also had a MOPS planing retreat this weekend (I'm on the steering committee now) and it was Andrew's praise team's week at church, so I feel beat up at this point. I have orientation tonight (and so does Thomas) and we have to set up, so another crazy day. I am physically having a really hard time-- just wiped out and I am hoping it will all level out soon.

In my prayer reading this morning was a quote that one of our old pastor's use to say (or something like it)... I actually thought it was his until I read this... thought it was appropriate today:

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your power. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." (Phillips Brooks)

Answers

I have finally got some. It has taken somewhere around 3 years, but I finally got someone to tell me what is going on inside my body.

We don't know the "why", but at least we know that "what"... I do have hypogammaglobulinemia, which is basically a T-cell deficiency. My B cells are fine-- they recognize "invaders" and then take them to my T-cells, which are supposed to then multiply and gobble up the "invader", but mine just lay there. That's why I have the candida; why I have had the sinus infections; and even the abscess tooth.

SO, I just started a month's worth of diflucan so that if we can get rid of the bacterial infections with that, I can then start synthetic antibiotics.

The trick is that we don't know why this has happened. I have a positive ANA, but normal results on everything else. The immunologist said that I could possibly be developing arthritis or lupus (or something like that), but it's not showing up on the tests yet, so there's just to way of knowing yet. In one way, that makes you feel like a sitting duck, BUT, I am so glad that at least I finally got to someone who could tell me what was going on and take the right steps to treat it AT LAST. That part is a BIG relief.

Anyway... I have sooooooo much to do for school, etc. (orientation next Monday-- ACK!!!!!), so gotta get it in gear... just relieved to have *some* answers finally.

Soon,
Lynn