My twin is gone home.  My house looks like a tornado hit it.  My yard is all dug up.  My daughter had strep throat (while she was visiting me) I am over-tired and ready for a break.

I have a beautiful new stemware shelf for my wine glasses now.  We finished that and put up a wine rack under it.  It looks beautiful.  We dug up the grass from my soon to be new flower beds.  We broke out the old mosaic of a patio table and created a new one for my niece.  It is ready to be sealed but I don't have time.  We did project after project and got most of them finished.  I still have a couple to do but I don't mind doing them alone.  I am enjoying the solitude.

Back here at school, I seem to have meetings and conferences every single night this week.  Some of them are very late in the evening.  Don't people think we have lives too?  Maybe we have a parent conference some place.  Or a date or family to take care of.   Not me, I apparantly have no life outside of school.  I should be willing to stay forever to accomodate the parents.  (Bitter?)  Do you know I missed most of my own kids conferences because I had to do conferences at my school at the same time?  I wasn't allowed to go.  Now, teachers just walk out as if they are entitled to do it and you need to cover the slack.  Times have changed for sure.