A Southern Rehabilitation

I'm supposed to be working today. Cleaning my classroom, packing things away, finishing paperwork, etc... Instead I'm sitting at a hospital in Greensboro, NC, waiting for my son to come out of surgery. I found out about 4:00 yesterday afternoon that Jared would be having surgery today.  Jared is my third child, second son, my Winter baby (born in Dec. just 2 weeks after my 31st birthday) and an accident waiting to happen. No lie. Hey,we've never been to THIS hospital!  We have done *this* so many times with him. I tell everyone that we have ID passes to every hospital and ER up and down the East coast. Since Jared was a little fella, we've been frequenting hospitals for one injury or another--some health issue or another.  Even when we are on vacation, we somehow manage to end up at some kind of medical facility.  This is our dare devil child, no fear, "go big or go home" child, "Hey, Ya'll watch this!", sports playing, soccer loving, do eve...

Now that I finally feel like it is summer, I can write this post. My last day of school (with kids) was Friday, the 13th.  Full moon, Friday the 13th, and the last day of school... Yeah, about that! I had all but two kids show up on Friday. That's still 21 kindergarteners for the LAST day of school. It was straight up Crazy and there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it either. haha It was "party central."  I still have to go to work next week, in fact, all teachers' "last day" is supposed to be June 26th. What's that you say??? I'm not even kidding!!! HOW the state can come up with such a stupid "end date" is beyond me. Thankfully our principal allowed us to work over time (like we don't already) and earn up to 40 comp hours. You know I did!! I at least get to knock off 5 of those days. Not to mention, my high school reunion is next Thursday and Friday, and you better believe I'm taking off for those days! I'm sure that R...