lauren loves apples

A new week begins anon and I am hoping for a better one. Of course last week was not bad, but doesn’t everyone wish for better? I can’t wait to get started on my 2 practicum(s?) I am excited about getting in the classroom soon. Mainly because it is cool to spend time doing that. I have always enjoyed the times I spent helping in my kiddos’ kindergarten classrooms.  Regrettably I don’t think they actually enjoyed kindergarten. They mostly dreaded it but I think it was a result of some kind of bizarre character clash between the kindergarten teacher and the boys. My boys. How I wish for them to have had a sweet loving kindergarten experience. But they didn’t.

So I wonder what the week will bring. I had a haircut Friday. Wow and I got all kinds of other errands done Friday too. We went to a wedding Saturday, and he did NOT try very hard to catch the garter… ugh.  I sat at the firehouse kitchen table and watched Vikings football this afternoon – they won 34 to something.

My poor little sister is pregnant & has chicken pox so I am praying for her itchy self. Also my mom, she’s a CNA and the lady she cares for died so now she needs a new job. I think my youngest sister is fine. My daddy seemed fine last time I talked to him. My boyfriend’s in Fargo for some kind of fireman stuff, just left today and I miss him already.  Ugh I hate when he leaves. Plus next week is duck season. Quack quack.

I think I’ll go to bed.  I’m wearing the wrong glasses anyway.

I took the Teaching Perspectives Profile and was surprised to find I’m not more nurturing. After all, I’m a mom, even if I’m an interrupted, half-time mommy-co-op mom. (Maybe I’ll have to elaborate on that later!!) Am I not Nurturing? Probably I should do more research on that concept before I concede.

I had high numbers in Apprenticeship and Developmental. I think this is from training associates at Linens N Things. Nurturing is not really what I was trained to do. I spent a lot of time listening to weird excuses like “I ran out of gas, can’t come to work!” Which was not a good excuse considering there is a paycheck involved with “coming to work” and money is of course required to purchase gasoline. I really think my 3 years ensconced at a retail establishment would be an asset to my teaching career. As a manager I was very involved with teaching people our ways of doing things, and by “our” I mean the corporation specific to our store management… we had much higher standards than some management at other LNT stores. This was a learning experience for me because I had a huge variety of personalities to work with. With some I worked splendidly, and some clashed. I did find it possible to work with people with whom I clashed.

So okay.