exhaustion has set in

If we can just make it through tomorrow, everything will be alright. Today I substituted for Dennis' teacher AND for the science teacher. I loved it. I got to know Dennis' classmates, and I learned how his class operates. We did a couple of neat graphing projects today, as it was Rainbow Day in his class. Each child told me his or her favorite color, and we put his or her name on that color paper crayon then he or she found that line on the graph and added the name to it. In the end, we counted the named for each color and found that red was the most popular. We also graphed Skittles. Mrs. Nancy has special graphs made up with circles in columns marked by colors. The kids arranged the Skittles on the graph, observed which color their snack sized bag had the most of, and then ate their Skittles. Very popular project. And they all did a great job graphing them.

I didn't even attempt the nap with the afternoon kids today. We did the Prayer Walk that the church has set up for this week, we played on the playground, and we came inside and played board games. There were three happy guys today, and they were mostly well behaved, and I spared my own mood by not fussing at them to nap when they almost never do.

Tonight I taught the church preschoolers, and I have been with Dennis nonstop today save one hour and fifteen minutes (total over the course of the day) when he was in a different class. I had thought that he'd finally be satisfied that he was getting my attention, but he still had to act out once or twice (push a kid in class). And when we got home, he wallowed all over me and followed me around nonstop. I'm so glad that I won't have to do the afternoon care anymore, that he won't have to share me with other kids, that I'll only be teaching my class when he's busy in his own class and it won't matter to him so much. We'll have this last precious year of afternoons together before he has to go to school all day long.

Tomorrow is a BIG day. Lots to do, and we'll be away from home for 12 hours with school and gym work and Taekwondo! He tests for his yellow belt tomorrow night, and then we're coming home to bed!!! I love all the things we do, and it's a good tired, the kind you get when you're accomplishing things. But it's tiring for sure, and lately I'm falling into bed worn out completely, which I am about to do again!