"Wonderful" Wednesdays.....arghhhhh

Wednesday-hump day! Wow I really feel like I'm just perched on the hump waiting for the wild ride down to Friday. This morning our two dogs (Sam the French bulldog((that's Sammy in the pic)) and Buddy the Rat Terrier Feist) decided to make a raid of the trash can. Guess my lasagna from last night was totally irresistable but geeeesh 4am!! Gimme a break! I even made the comment to my hubby in angry, sleepy grumblings this morning that today would be a bad day. Spring shouldd be a half-way celebratory time for us school teachers but contrary to popular belief spring is one of the busiest times for us especially those who teach special education. Spring is the dreaded time for IEP development and nagging parents to come and meet in order to discuss student progress. Sounds like a piece of cake? I wish life would be so kind. I taught in the same school for 10 years before moving to a new district halfway across the state so I'm having to learn this new districts ways of doing things. Can we say "MIGRAINE?"

I should not really complain about the policies and procedures. I don't have to give norm referenced tests to seventeen students and then score them before getting into the IEP development! But the program that we use to write the IEP's...good lord! I think I actually am starting to develop rug burns on my knees for all of the times that I have cursed one of the other teachers for mucking up the system for the rest of us! I even took the time and tried nicely to explain how this program works so that everyone can use it but nooooooo. We all know when she gets on the system because shortly there after everything goes down! Oh well! Who am I just a new person, that's all! I even explained that the system was so terrible that my previous district boycotted the use of it so they would allow us to go to a program that is more "user" friendly.

The kids have actually been decent this afternoon at home. It finally stopped rained so the boys are outside trying to see who can get the dirtiest before mealtime. I think it'll be Spence because he can look at something dirty and it just jumps up on him. My hubby was in a tizzy over what to have for dinner which ended in me hanging up on him..(Terribly childish, I know). But thanks to my executive decision dinner is in the oven. Honestly I think he's just tired of dish duty and wants to cook to get out of dishes! Oh well there goes the buzzer..time to get back to reality!