Spring Break: Monday Update

My 5 favorite activities:
1. Reading
2. Music
3. Gardening
4. Baking
5. My dogs (Dogs count as an activity, right? Mine are certainly active!)

My spring break plans:
*Spend some time with everything on the list above.

I began my spring break with therapy sessions – one on Saturday with my parents’ therapist, and one on Monday with my own therapist. My parents are so weird. At one point, my mom started arguing with her therapist while my dad laughed at them. (I wasn’t involved at this point, thankfully. I found it very awkward to watch, but I guess they sort of forgot I was there. I almost took out my iPod and started playing video games, but I didn’t think that would help anything.) Oh well. They want me there, so I keep going. Interesting coincidence – both my therapist and my parents’ therapist have wiener dogs. (Don’t ask me what that means; I’m just pointing it out.) My parents' therapist has a TINY little wiener dog named Tulip who is very friendly. She likes to answer the door for him and then escort us to our seats. I'm really glad that everyone in my family likes animals -- mom, dad, brother, brother's wife, husband, me... We're all animal lovers. Now we just have to train my niece Hannah. My brother and sis-in-law have a weird little Boston terrier named Lenny (after Lenny and Carl on The Simpsons). He's not the cutest dog in the world, but he is possibly the funniest. I'm guessing that Lenny will be following Hannah everywhere as soon as she starts walking.

On Sunday, I finished two graduate school assignments; cue my sense of relief/accomplishment! It’s nice not to have a bunch of work to do this week. I have a few things to prepare for my district office meeting on Wednesday, and I have to make an answer key for the assignments I’m giving to my students on Monday and Tuesday. Fortunately, the copies are already made and sitting on my desk at school. I have to clean my house before my friend comes over on Wednesday night. I probably should do some laundry so that I don’t end up wearing the exact same outfit every day this week… But that’s really it. I don’t have any other work to do. Isn’t that wonderful?

I've been thinking about my students off on spring break. I hope they're reading a lot, but I also hope they have the chance to go to exciting places and participate in really fun activities. They deserve a break! Maybe I should ask the PTSA if they would pay for a field trip to Disneyland or something...