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| Time for much needed relaxation (and sleep!) |
Friends, I love my job. I love my job that 99.9% of the time
it just feels like I’m playing and not really working (for any administrators
reading I work, a lot…I just live by that old saying ‘find something you love
and you’ll never work a day in your life’!), but there were FOUR weeks between Thanksgiving
and Christmas and that was just a bit too much for students and teachers alike.
I have this group of 8th graders that I adore and
I can’t talk about the end of the year this year without getting majorly teary
eyed. They’re just a solid group and I’ve become friends with many of the
parents too. It will be hard to watch them walk off to the high school in May
(and I’m pretty sure them failing drama will not keep them in middle school,
but I may still try…..I kid! I kid!). Because of this I cannot count down to
anything because it is less days with them and that makes me sad, but the last
week or so of school before break I was even struggling with that!
I think three shows in a row plus school finally caught up
with me and Christmas break was a necessary break to recharge my introvert
batteries. I still have a week left of break and I will soak it all up, but I
do kind of miss the little devils!
December also brought two big events for Mary Poppins.
First off, our very own Mary Poppins from 2016 married her
high school sweetheart at a beautiful Christmas ceremony (and I got to see her
Los Angeles living sister). It was a lovely wedding and I got to catch up with
some people I’d missed.
Second was the release of Mary Poppins Returns. We planned a
Poppins reunion of dinner, the movie, and dessert for the Saturday after it
came out on Wednesday. I couldn’t wait that long and my mom and I went to
Dallas on Tuesday to a fan event to see it a day early. It was practically perfect
in every way. I know some people weren’t fans, but being so intimately involved
with the show for a summer and loving it so very much there was enough nostalgia
to make my heart warm, the songs were catchy earworms, and the characters were
enough like the old to make me happy, but enough different to stand alone.
The last major event of the month was our return to trivia
night at our local watering hole. I had missed it more than I realized (and
having friends!). We won our first night back (some of the team had continued
to go, but we got the whole gang along with some new faces back together) and
the next week…last week was disaster, but the comradery is the main part I enjoy
and it has been nice to catch up with friends.
That’s about all for 2018. As I stand here on the last day
of the year I won’t say that I’ll miss this one, but I’m once again hopeful of
the year to come.
And with that I give you my 2019 word of the year… right
here (actually will be posted on January 1, 2019).
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