 happy Monday. Today is February 12th and it is my first day back at work right now it is 7 o'clock and I'm about 7 minutes from work. I got up this morning at 5 20. Cash actually woke me up at 4 30 for a feeding which was really frustrating because I knew I had an hour left to sleep. So after he ate I actually just lay him down next to me to eat and then he'll like kind of fall asleep after he's done and all kind of fall asleep and so I probably got an extra 30 minutes before I had to wake up again. So then I kind of snuck into my bathroom started getting ready. He woke up around 6 to finish eating because he only ate on one side so I had to finish him on the other side and then I took him into my mom's room in his doccatoc to finish that today or the morning I guess and I finished getting ready. I made myself breakfast. I just have a protein shake with some oatmeal, strawberries, some almond milk and then some organic protein and then I had a piece of toast and I also have a banana in my backpack. I made all my lunches for the week last night. I made just like ground beef, rice and great beans and then I like pre-packaged all my snacks so that all I have to do is like grab them and throw them in my bag and that way I don't have to try and do that in the morning as well. On top of the stove in a glass container filled with hot water just stay warm so that when he wakes up here in about 20-ish minutes my mom will have a bottle ready for him that way he's not like super upset. The house around 640. It's Monday I'm supposed to be doing PLC with my team but I'm going to ask them if they don't mind just letting me not join them this week. First of all I don't have any data for them because I haven't been there and that's really what they're talking about so pretty much everything ready. I just have a couple things like I need to put my schedule up I need to change my calendar I need to like make sure everything is ready to go from when the kids come in because I did film a video when I went to my classroom last weekend when I rearranged everything but I realized after watching it back after I had edited it and it was it's actually uploaded to YouTube it's just I didn't post it because I was very angry in the video and very negative and I just felt like I didn't want to be I didn't want to be negative. My class has had a lot of behavior issues the last month that I've been gone because of my long-term sub quitting and then they got another sub who never really got to be trained by me and because I'm on FMLA I decided not to plan for them so it was kind of you know a disaster in there and part of it is my fault yes but another part is like I'm not getting paid to do this and I'm gonna spend as much time as I can with my son and that's what I did so I'm gonna have a lot of damage control this week hopefully it won't be too bad hopefully they'll be like oh it's misspelled as we know what to do so we're gonna spend today like most of the morning just kind of going over procedures and expectations just so that they know like you're not gonna continue behaving the way you did when the sub was here also I took away flexible seating they all have a desk now they're in kind of like a double horseshoe figuration they have desks and chairs Jennifer and I switched furniture I think if you guys watch her Instagram store you guys saw that and so that's kind of an update I'm trying not to think about the fact that I had to leave my baby this morning as I've said before my mom is watching him today and then Scott will be home tomorrow and he's gonna be with family so it's kind of easier to leave you know it's not like I had to drop him off at a daycare or you know what a stranger so it's a little bit easier on me I didn't cry I haven't cried yet I've gotten like misty about it like thinking about it like last night when I was rocking him to sleep and I you know it kissed him before I put him down I kind of like got a little misty but this morning not so much I think it's just because my mind is focused on work and you know Megan from too cool for middle school sent me a message last night on Instagram just wishing me luck and saying you know you'll enjoy peeing by yourself and you know eating without with both hands and so I'm just gonna relish in those good moments that I know are here and I'm gonna try not to make myself sad or stressed out because that's just not gonna help me because I do need to pump and you know everything like that so I just got to work I'm gonna get inside I'm gonna get things set up I'm gonna talk to my team make sure they're okay with me skipping PLC today and I'll show you guys what I'm wearing and then hopefully fingers crossed I can update you guys throughout the day I would like to get like a week-long vlog up for you guys so if I do vlog every day then you'll see that if not then you'll see bits and pieces but I'm gonna just pick up the camera whenever I feel like it and we'll see where it goes hey guys so I literally just got to my first prep hour I got to school I got everything kind of set up and then it was kind of a blur so I'm gonna show you my outfit real quick I'm wearing my straight out of pencils t-shirt and then I'm wearing my chico pants from Old Navy and my black teak black and yeah that's kind of what I'm wearing so this I'm getting ready to pump by the way so this is gonna be kind of short I'm getting ready that we spent the morning going over procedures and expectations and then when they come back in we're gonna clean the desks we're gonna organize everything that's in the desks make sure everybody has what they need we're gonna see where everybody's at in math and then we're gonna start a reading lesson so far the kids have been amazing they've been quiet they've been listening following directions I think they're a little scared so yeah my desk is a complete disaster right now but that's okay because later on this afternoon when they do centers I'm gonna spend my time organizing because I'm not gonna pull small groups quite yet because I just need this time to organize my room get things handled and my principal is not coming in today because I told her this morning don't even come in because we're doing procedures and expectations and we're cleaning and organizing and getting back on track and she's like yes they need that so yeah I'm gonna go ahead and pump and I will catch up with you guys after what are you doing all day I miss him hey guys so it is 346 at the end of the day and as you can tell my voice is going away and that is solely from talking so much my kids were great I mean they followed all my directions they paid attention they were amazing so it really was that they just needed me back and I'm glad to be back it the day went by really fast it felt really productive we kind of just cleared out everything out of our desks got rid of everything and went over procedures and things like that and it went really really well I also taught them a figurative language so they know all of the different types of figurative language and we're able to practice identifying those tomorrow they will work on doing that in actual literature using text and so overall it was a super productive day I was able to pump at every time that I needed to and still prep which was great my pumping time was about 10 ish minutes each time I know that I could probably go longer but I honestly don't really have time to go longer at this point maybe I will be able to do longer later on but at this time 10 minutes is perfect and I'm able to get enough for what my mom needs every day for cash so what I'm gonna do now is spend the last about 10 ish minutes I'm gonna call my mom and see if she doesn't mind just making sure cash is okay until about five because I do need to go to the store and get a couple things like we don't have any tissues we don't have any like a bunch of light bulbs have burnt out just things that I need to get at Walmart really fast and hopefully she'll be okay if I make it before five but I'm gonna clean up my desk because as you guys can see it is kind of messy I was able to clean off my small group table which before was a complete disaster and everything has kind of been taken down and put over here these are all like things that are holding like supplies that I need to go through and organize these are library books that need to be put back this all needs to be reorganized this all needs to be organized and put away this I need to get a new like poster holder for all of my like pinker charts and then like this stuff needs to be organized and put away so there's a lot going on here but it's productive like it's just gonna take me a while so right now during small group time they are practicing expectations of small group work so while they're doing that instead of pulling small groups I'm working back here to organize everything and just that way next week we can really dive into our small group instruction and work really hard on that so I'm actually going to just organize my desk I'm gonna make this my project for the next 15 minutes before I can leave and everything is all planned for tomorrow I do need to work on planning math but I think I'm gonna do that tomorrow morning when I get here because I will have plenty of time to do that I'm also gonna probably pull my desk forward because I have this like naked space that all those cords are like super ugly so if I pull my desk forward and kind of out more it will provide me with more space and hide all those ugly cords so I'm just gonna get to work as you can see I have a lot of work ahead of me good morning guys happy Tuesday today is Tuesday February 13th and I am just a school I got here at 7 o'clock and I just had to get my desk area cleaned up and organized and so I have kind of spent the whole morning doing that it's still not done like that whole shelf needs to be organized and cleaned I'm thinking I might just throw away all these old games because half of them are missing pieces half of them are missing directions and I just can't stand the clutter and I'm not allowing the kids to play with them anyway so why keep them and then later on I can just get some new games or something these things have nothing in them so I need to like well this does have some Arizona textbooks in them but yeah I'm thinking I might just throw those away I need to go through well these are kind of organized and cleaned this is all stuff that I've been like that I've used and had like extra masters of so that'll be like a summer project like again I'll go through and put them in these notebooks but I have duty in about 10 minutes and I just wanted to show you guys my desk I did move it over here and I am gonna utilize it I wasn't using it in the beginning of the year only because I was doing the flexible seating and there just wasn't enough room but now that the desks are here I do actually have space and yesterday I moved it up so I have a good amount of space back here I'm gonna take all of these home and unstuff them wash them and restuff them so I'll probably do that over the summer I'll probably cut them apart and take the stuffing out while I'm here that way I don't have to carry all of them home like all stuff but yeah and then this little thing will go in that little space look at that is all like ruined I need to fix that but I was gonna show you guys my outfit really quickly before I go out to duty okay so my outfit today is this shirt it is a long sleeve kind of like bell sleeved shirt I got this at a boutique in downtown Prescott called fancy that if you're in Arizona and you go to Prescott that's where I got it just wearing a gray tank top underneath it and then these are my pixie Chico pants from old Navy that I found they're kind of like a denim blue with like a white pinstripe super cute and then I have on my chestnut teaks today and then of course my lanyard is all done up with buttons I don't know if I've shown you guys these before but I did get some more from Fernanda for my secret Santa this Christmas so I added those on there and then yeah so that is what I'm wearing Apple watch of course and I have bus duty this morning so I had to bring my big jacket because it is actually really cold I think it's like 40 degrees so before I run out to duty I'm just gonna have our welcome stuff ready to go I need to turn on dojo on that computer I need to put up our good morning slide and then I will be ready I also reorganized my cart because it was disgusting I bought all new mr. sketch markers and regular markers for anchor charts I put all my Sharpies on my whiteboard markers they're back it's back to being organized and then this of course is just my stuff like originals notebooks things like that for modeling and then I need to take these to the office these are like attendance sheets and then these are handouts that I need to do later so just a lot of like organizing today is my second day back and I'm still like trying to clean and organize things like the whole back of the room is just messy with stuff because the kids didn't have any organization while I was gone so I'm having to do that kind of now and so I'll do that again today during a small group or while they're working on a Valentine's Day project this morning so that is my day tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I will show you guys what I did for that but for now I'm just going to get this up and that way we can get the day started yeah kind of running around like crazy I did not plan for math yet today but I have like the lesson I'm planning to do and if that doesn't work out I might just do an hour of review and seeing what they know but I'm probably gonna end up planning that during my prep time while I pump kind of a crazy morning but that's what happens when you return from maternity leave and everything is crazy I'm just pulling up class dojo so I changed the way my kids do attendance instead of moving their magnet they click themselves in on class dojo and it makes it a little bit easier plus the magnets are all like gross and like their names are all scratched off and stuff so it'll be a lot easier for them to just click themselves in on dojo yeah so okay I'll catch up with you guys a little bit later hey guys it's the end of the day and I didn't blog anything things were crazy today I had so much to do so little time pumping really does take a lot of time out of my normal everyday things that I would normally do during prep time which is making it makes things really difficult especially if you're not like a hundred percent pre-planned which no one ever is because when do we have time for that but it is the end of the day I am packing up to go it's actually 4 30 and normally I would want to be home by now but I had to go to a read across America meeting because I'm on the committee and then I had a janitor in my room trying to clean while I needed to pump so I had to wait for him to leave I'm a terrible blogger by the way I'm always cutting up my own head but I have my milk I have all my stuff I have this little sign Charlotte before you leave do you have these things because I have so much going on in my brain right now I can't even remember what day it is so keys milk phone I have to pee dishes done dishes no grading I don't have any yet okay time to go do you guys like my little pumping set up here it works well that's it for Tuesday we'll see what tomorrow brings so I'm gonna go ahead and end this vlog now if I end up blogging tomorrow or Thursday or Friday I will upload and I'll see you guys in the next video bye