Now Parenting: Week 24

Sunday: Over 6 hrs sleep, with Alexandra for an hour (including bottle) before heading out for brunch with parents at 9am. Weight after 10am, then home. Grading, then half hour with little one before I went to a WriteIn. Home for 5pm, immediately attempting to snooze/feed the little one. Transitioned to early bath at 5:45pm, then some back and forth, until finally asleep after 7pm. Woke for bed after 10:15pm, after bottle Mom did story, before 11:30pm I was toast, went downstairs.

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Monday: Awake about 6am, breakfast and day prep, then with Alexandra for over half an hour. Standard school, home for 2pm. With Alexandra for 2.5 hours from 3pm (not consecutive) including standard snooze and six ounces drunk. By 6:30pm, doing grading and miscellaneous over dinner. Awakening at 9:45pm led to bedtime. Downstairs just after 11pm.

Tuesday: Like Monday, except no Alexandra, snow shovelling and going in early before a test. Standard school plus duty, home before 2:30pm. (Story time at the library that morning, plus a snowflake.) Alexandra only woke up at 4:15pm, with her three hours from then including snooze and 7 ounces. Cut self while doing dishes. Attempt at little one's sleep just after 9pm. Downstairs 10pm, not to bed right away.

Wednesday: Awake before 6am. Day prep, with Alexandra for half an hour. Standard morning, on call in afternoon, then no yoga. (Alexandra had a photo shoot at the mall, which went super well because mom thought to use the bib until it was time.) Home about 4pm, back and forth with Alexandra until after 6pm, she's having some mom separation issues. Then dealing with food delivery, dinner, and grading tests. Putting little one to sleep after 9pm did not go well. Depression. Downstairs about 10:45pm. Did some writing.

Thursday: Managed 6 hours (dreamt was playing a card game or something). With Alexandra for about 20 minutes before standard school, plus OSSTF lunch meeting, plus staying afternoon to figure stuff out. Home after 3:30pm, little one was fussy upon arrival, but with her for over an hour (including bottle) before 6pm. (Aspirator was used for first time that morning.) Attempted bed after 9:30pm. Downstairs by 11pm. Upstairs after 11:30pm for tears, then back down. Sporadic writing through the day.

Friday: Over five hours sleep, dreaming about a murder on a hotel train? With Alexandra for half an hour, standard school plus anime club. Home after 2pm, with little one for a bit over half an hour then crashed for a bit. Back and forth after 4:30pm. Eventually to Mom, I did writing, then nail clipping after 8pm and bed towards 8:30pm. Left after 9:30pm to Write-In, home about 11:30pm for final words.

Saturday: Maybe 5 hours sleep - why are theatre dreams always forgetting lines, or makeup? Crying before 7am. With Alexandra for 3+ hours, to 10:30am. Drove ladies out to french protest, did shopping (sold out of our light bulbs??), sort of napped, graded papers, ordered food, little one towards bed after 9pm. But not alone in crib until 10:45pm. Downstairs to queue up serial post.

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Item counts run Sunday (Nov 25) to Saturday (Dec 1).

Step Count 2016: About 55,230
Step Count 2017: Over 67,400 (16 stars).
STEP COUNT 2018: Over 72,000. 10 stars.

FROM 2016:
-Had responses to my lament of posts that no one seemed to notice.
FROM 2017:
-WriteIns, musical rehearsal, procrastination on grading/review writing.

SchoolMail 2016: 83 (2 sent)
SchoolMail 2017: 102 (11 sent)
SCHOOL EMAIL 2018: 73 New (4 sent)
We have completed DAY 63 -1(tornado). (Includes 2 PD Days.)

TEACHING RELATED ITEMS:
 -Finished grading 4U tests
 -Groups/Revamps for 4U Summative
 -Started grading 3M tests
Started looking into ELL checks, but now our dept is getting training next yr.
Students arranging holiday assembly actually asked if I was doing a song. Neat.
Started getting paperwork in on returning to full time.

WRITING + ART RELATED ITEMS:
 -Sunday Library Write-In (2 hrs)
 -Wrote "Chanced Erasures 11" (~2k words)
 -Thursday Comic Tea Party Chat
 -Friday market Write-In (1 hr)
 -CTP 'week long book club' catchup/Qs
 -NaNo: To 21561 on Sun (WriteIn), then 22271, 23071, 23919, 25122 & 29225 (Fri).

OTHER ITEMS:
 -Brunch with (grand)parents Sun
 -Card shopping Sat (as little one went protesting franco-cuts)
 -Lotus Prince's "Danganronpa: Trigger" (Parts 41 to end) & "D" (PS1)

UPCOMING FOR SURE:
 -Staff meeting.

REGULAR TO-DO LIST:
 -Recap for CanCon 2018
 -Write a TANDQ article on Polling and Bias
 -Write a post about types of praise/encouragement
 -Catching up with web serials/comics (from ~May 2018)
 -Read some of the books sitting at my desk

RH Stress Level: 4 (Accel Shooter)