I wish I could say the day was as angelic as the voice of Alison Sudol, lead singer of the group A Fine Frenzy. Is there Hope for the Hopeless, as their song says?? The day wasn't angelic at all...it was far from it...quite the opposite!
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–noun
1.extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
2.a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania: He is subject to these frenzies several times a year.
–verb (used with object)
3.to drive to frenzy; make frantic: She was frenzied by fear when she smelled the smoke.
If I was to pick...I would have to say today was #3... to drive to frenzy; make frantic! Hmm....what name shall I give this child to protect the innocent...innocent my tooshie! He's a new little munchkin and his name in the blog will be....hmmm...Eyeballs! I allowed this child, I mean...Mr. Eyeballs to drive me to a frenzy! It started off yesterday... received an email from another parent stated Mr. Eyeballs hurt their daughter. Dealt with that, so I thought! Today he started off with some small little things that I put a stop to and on the back burner but what took the cake was the back talk and when I would speak to him he would roll his eyes at me and turn his face. ~I'm not listening to you! lalalala It got worse and worse and the day progressed, then he wouldn't do any work. In trying to redirect him the eye rolling continued and this is when you could see the other kids notice and have looks of shock and they kept looking at me as if they were thinking ~ooooOOO mama mama he's going to get it! Instead, the kids stepped in and in a way tried to regain their classroom from him by telling him ~You better stop that, you're being mean to Ms. Buddé. ~ We don't act like that. ~Ms. Buddé he's making faces and whispering things about you. Something about this child just got under my skin and he always has this smirk on his face when he looks at you as if he's thinking ~What?! What are you going to do?! I remembered my volcanic day last week and did not want to go there. Inside though, I was fuming each time those eyeballs rolled back!! At that moment I had a flashback to when I was little and we would make ugly or silly faces and my mom would tell us to stop or our face would stay that way...hmm...would Mr. Eyeballs eyeballs stay rolled back? Imagine?! I could hear my mom say ~Andale! Translated... basically saying...See! That's what you get! Heehee! ~Nope! Eyeballs didn't stay that way, they continued to roll back even more so! I was about to lose it and one of my babies knew it, well they all could tell, but they were sooooooo sweet and one of them just at the right moment came up and gave me a hug. ~Awww...I needed that! I thought ~why the bejeebers am I putting up with this?! Instead of sending him to the office, which I rarely do because I'd rather deal with my own discipline or usually don't have anything that severe, I sent him to another colleague. We usually do this from time to time and it usually helps. They usually realize they have it much better in their own classroom then where they were sent to. After so much time was taken away from instruction, I was able to get back on track. I lost so much, not so much in the time wasted but the I lost so much of myself. If that makes any sense. After school mom was wanting to take him....~Just a minute...I need to speak to you! As I made sure all my munchkins left with their parent I could see from the corner of my eye she was interrogating him. Mind you, I've had some problems with her too which I stopped immediately but knew this would probably ruffle her feathers. I explained to her all that he had done and the email from the other parent and to my surprise said she would take care of it. ~Hmmm....would she? Or tomorrow will I receive a nasty note...guess we'll have to wait and see!
Last week we had some inservices and all I can say is that sitting in a chair all day is more draining than dealing with a classroom full of munchkins. We spent almost all of Friday with a new Science facilitator that the district sent to our campus. She actually was great and we had a good time with her.
Some better news around the campus....babies!!! There might be something in the water at our school because another teacher is expecting a little blessing! So far that's 5. One had hers last year, one last month, one due on New Year's, and two due in May. Yikes!!
Short post today due to lack of umph...or in adult terms motivation. ~"Trying to be what they need but I’m so very tired."~lyric from Whisper by A Fine Frenzy. I allowed Mr. Eyeballs to get to me and I sit and wonder...~Why do I do this? and in the same breath try to remind myself...why I do, do this. (yes, remove the comma and it says do do...as in poop, crap, caca, etc. Sometimes it feels like it's a bunch of poop, what we have to put up with!) I can't let one sour grape ruin the rest of the bunch. ~Hmmm...grapes=wine...maybe I just need some wine to stop whining and a little bit of A Fine Frenzy to remind myself how angelic most of these munchkins can be and truly are.
Stay tuned to more adventures filled with a bit more motivation and excitement...
XOXO's
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